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FCC Bans Foreign Routers Citing Security Risks โ The Same Playbook Used To Ground DJI
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2026, banned the import of all new foreign-made consumer wireless routers, adding them to its Covered List after a White House-convened interagency panel determined they pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that couldโฆ
Zipline Adds $200M to Series H, Bringing Total to $800M as Repeat Orders Drive Faster-Than-Expected Growth
Zipline has closed an additional $200 million on top of its Series H round, pushing the total to $800 million, TechCrunch reported. The new capital includes participation from crypto investment firm Paradigm and arrives ahead of schedule. “Things have movedโฆ
Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework
The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice softwareโฆ

Swarmer’s IPO Soars 950% as Investors Bet on Ukraine-Proven Drone Swarm Software
Swarmer (SWMR), an Austin, Texas-based company whose drone coordination software has run more than 100,000 combat missions in Ukraine, became the best-performing IPO of the year after its shares surged roughly 950% above their $5 offering price in just twoโฆ
FCC Exempts Four Foreign Drone Models From Import Ban as DJI Court Battle Continues
Our earlier report today confirmed the news: the FCC has removed the first four drone systems from its “Covered List.” What that report didn’t have space to unpack is the regulatory logic behind the timing and the specific manufacturers chosen.โฆ

Lutnick at Zipline: A New Blueprint for the American Drone Economy
The photos from inside Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing facility show Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, examining a drone airframe alongside CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton โ American flags visible in the background. It’s a deliberate image, and it carriesโฆ

Army’s AMP-HEL Laser Passes FAA Safety Test At White Sands โ A Stray Airliner Made The Case
The Army's AMP-HEL counter-drone laser passed a joint FAA safety evaluation at White Sands Missile Range on March 7-8, 2026 โ and an unplanned commercial aircraft triggered the automated shutoff that made the strongest case for the system's safety. Here's what the test revealed and what it means for U.S. airspace.
SWEPCO Sends Skydio X10 Drones to Scout Power Lines in East Texas
East Texas utility SWEPCO has a new way to find the branches that will kill your power before they actually do it. The drones are already flying. The Problem With Trees and Power Lines Vegetation management is the unglamorous backboneโฆ

Jobyโs Bay Area Flight: A Masterclass in Marketing vs. Reality
There’s a detail buried in Joby’s Golden Gate flight announcement that most other outlets missed โ and it changes how you should read this story. Last Friday, Joby Aviation flew its electric air taxi across the San Francisco Bay, pastโฆ

DOT & FAA Launch eVTOL Pilot Program in 26 States โ Autonomous Cargo Flights Could Start This Summer
The same executive order that unleashed drone dominance last June is now sending electric air taxis into live commercial airspace. On March 9, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA named eight projects under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Programโฆ
Drones Fly Over Texas A&M’s Mock Disaster City in Mass Casualty Drill
Six hundred students. A fake bioterrorism attack. A simulated explosion. And drones flying overhead until midnight for ten straight days. This is how America trains its next generation of emergency responders. A City Built to Burn, Flood, and Collapse Disasterโฆ

Trump Family’s Drone Portfolio Reaches $750 Million as Pentagon Scales Up Procurement
Bloomberg has put a dollar figure on what we’ve been tracking for months: the Trump family’s drone investment portfolio, held through a Texas-based firm called American Ventures, is worth nearly $750 million across three Florida-based companies, all of which areโฆ