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New DIRT Program Trains Personnel on Grounded Drones
A Virginia-based counter-UAS training company has launched a program built around the part of a drone incident that most training programs skip entirely: what to do after the aircraft is on the ground. 38 Sierra announced Drone Incident Response Training,…
NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is no longer a render. Over the past two months, the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has bolted together the lander’s primary structure, dropped a full-scale parachute system over the Arizona desert, and…
NASA Is Sending Organs by Drone, And It Actually Makes Sense
Most government partnerships come down to bureaucracy and grant justifications. This one is different. NASA’s Langley Research Center and the United Network for Organ Sharing just announced they’re going to fly human organs across Virginia in drones. Not in some…
AFA Gabriel Chapter Funds Drone Program at Leesburg CAP
The Air & Space Forces Association’s Gabriel Chapter in Northern Virginia just handed the Leesburg Civil Air Patrol squadron a concrete investment in its future: two professional-grade unmanned aerial systems and the curriculum to put them to work, as the…
FAA’s eIPP lets Wisk and Reliable Robotics fly commercial before certification, and that changes everything
The FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) is now doing something U.S. aviation regulators have never done: letting companies fly commercial missions with uncertified aircraft, then using the data to write the rules afterward. A detailed report from Aviation International…
Wing finally brings drone delivery to Bay Area residents, 14 years after being born there
Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, announced on Monday that it will expand residential drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company framed the move as a “homecoming,” since Wing was founded in the…
Switzerland Is Testing Drones Where They’re Hardest to Fly
Switzerland’s government-backed Taskforce Drones is preparing its next round of UAS technical trials for autumn 2026, building on a December 2025 campaign that pushed attack drones and counter-drone systems through some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, as JANES…
South Bend PD Taps Flock Safety for No-Cost Drone as First Responder Pilot
The South Bend Police Department in Indiana has launched a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program through a one-year, no-cost partnership with Flock Safety, according to local reporting on the program. Eight FAA-certified operators inside the department’s Real Time Crime…
DOT & FAA Launch eVTOL Pilot Program in 26 States — 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 Program…
In Fairfax County, Skydio Arrives First. Every Time.
Fairfax County, Virginia is not testing the waters on Drone as First Responder. The numbers from their first 100 missions make the case better than any press release could. Drones arrived on scene first in 71 of those 100 calls.…
NASA’s Dragonfly Enters Full Assembly Phase as $3.35B Budget and Schedule Risks Loom Over 2028 Launch
Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions.…
Oklahoma Drones Drop Poison Pellets to Kill Invasive Cedar Trees
Oklahoma has a slow-motion wildfire crisis growing one tree at a time. Drones dropping herbicide pellets tree by tree may be the most cost-effective answer anyone has found yet, as reported by KOSU. The Tree That Is Eating Oklahoma Eastern…