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Chula Vista PD’s DFR Drone Program Crosses 25,000 Missions
The Chula Vista Police Department announced this week that its Drone as First Responder (DFR) program has surpassed 25,000 missions since launch, making the agency that pioneered the entire model in 2018 the clearest proof yet that drone-led emergency response…
Drone Security Is The FCC’s Job, Not DOT’s: Owen Morgan Tells XPONENTIAL Robotics Panel
Brendan Schulman, the former Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs at DJI who left for Boston Dynamics in September 2021, returned to an AUVSI XPONENTIAL stage in Detroit on Tuesday to moderate a robotics policy panel that opened with…
Robinson Unmanned At XPONENTIAL: Spirit Modular Demo Impresses; Helius Pre-Orders Wait Another Six Months
On the outdoor demo pad in front of Huntington Place at XPONENTIAL 2026 Detroit, Robinson Unmanned Head of Flight Operations Matt Donofrio set a black Spirit coaxial drone on its carbon fiber landing legs while a colleague hand-launched the pocket-sized…
FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’
The drone industry has spent two decades arguing that uncrewed aircraft are aircraft and that commercial operators belong in the National Airspace System on equal terms with crewed aviation. On Tuesday morning at XPONENTIAL Detroit, the senior FAA official who…
AUVSI’s Robbins Defends Broader-Than-Asked FCC Drone Ban; Pentagon’s Cadenazzi Sets 2026 Section 805 Pilot Timeline
AUVSI President and CEO Michael Robbins opened the association’s XPONENTIAL Detroit conference Tuesday morning, May 12, by reframing how the largest drone industry lobby in the United States talks about the FCC’s December 22, 2025 sweep of all foreign-made drones…
HYFIX Launches U.S.-Made H1P Chip Module for Small Drones
HYFIX Spatial Intelligence is rolling out its H1P Positioning, Navigation, and Open-Compute Module for small unmanned systems, with samples and evaluation kits available immediately. The Santa Clara, California company is showcasing the H1P at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026 in Detroit this…
Detroit Startup Birdstop Deploys Drones to Solve Truck Parking Crisis
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into…
Waiv Robotics Unveils Autonomous VTOL Landing System for Ships
Waiv Robotics, a London-based maritime tech startup, has unveiled a gyro-stabilized platform that enables fully autonomous takeoff and landing of VTOL drones on moving vessels at sea, as reported by The Robot Report. The system works with existing drones without…
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM, DJI FCC Deadline Looms, and 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions in 2025
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have five stories for you this week — it’s a longer one, but there’s a lot of important information packed in. FAA Files Long-Overdue Section 2209 NPRM First up, the FAA has…
Grilling Greg: Your Toughest Drone Registration, Airspace, and Part 107 Questions Answered
I’m not Greg — it’s Ben. But Greg is here with me and we’re putting him to the test. We searched for the hottest topics and the burning questions drone pilots are asking right now, and we’re forcing Greg to…
Could This Be What Saves DJI in the United States? The FCC Is Now Accepting Public Comments
I’m going to talk about some real numbers towards the end of this article that show the effect on millions of Americans — and I highly suggest you use that information when you formulate your comments to the FCC. I…
Europe Gets Its First Military Drone Marketplace
European defense ministries now have a single platform to browse, compare, and deploy drones from across the continent, as reported by Agence Europe. Amsterdam-based Intelic launched BASE on May 4, describing it as the first procurement hub of its kind…