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CiS ORKA drone landing in the ORKA Dock on the deck of a FLANQ Q-RECON 24 uncrewed surface vessel

Industry

CiS ORKA Dock Demand Outruns The 30-Person German Factory Behind The Moving-Deck Drone First

German drone maker CiS says European demand for its ORKA Dock and drone now exceeds what its 30-person Rostock factory can build.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Three Skydio Dock for X10 stations on a rooftop with the Tampa skyline behind them

Blue UAS

Skydio Lands Entire Drone Lineup on Blue UAS Cleared List, and the Grant Money Follows

Skydio's X10, Dock for X10, and R10 join the X10D on the Blue UAS Cleared List, unlocking federal grant eligibility and cementing its DFR lead while rivals stay locked out.

Haye KestelooJul 23

Skydio

Lucid Bots Offers Veterans a $75,000 Drone Business

Lucid Bots wants transitioning veterans flying its cleaning drones, and it’s working through a veteran nonprofit to get them there. On July 7, the Charlotte-based manufacturer announced an official sponsorship of Vets to Drones, a nonprofit that trains former service members to fly commercially. The pitch is a path from military service to small-business ownership…

Rafael SuárezJul 8

ACSL

Japan Drone Industry Urges Closer Ties With Taiwan

A senior figure in Japan’s drone industry is pushing for Japan and Taiwan to align their drone rules and deepen manufacturing cooperation, arguing that mismatched regulations and Japan’s limits on defense work are holding the sector back. Kakuya Iwata, executive director of the Japan UAS Industrial Development Association, made the case in an interview with…

Rafael SuárezJul 7

Auterion

Auterion CEO Says Drones Are Becoming Cell Phones. He’s Right, And He’s Selling The Operating System

Lorenz Meier picked a fight with half the defense industry on July 1. The Auterion founder, creator of the Pixhawk flight controller and the widely adopted open-source PX4 autopilot, published an essay arguing that the United States, Germany, and Ukraine now buy attack drones the way consumers buy cell phones: interchangeable hardware, replaced every two…

Haye KestelooJul 6

Pentagon Pushes Low Tech Defenses Against Small Drones

Skydio

Marc Andreessen Joins the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board While His Firm Backs the Drone Makers Winning the DJI Ban

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to the Defense Policy Board on Monday, June 29, 2026, placing the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz on the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon’s top civilian leadership on force structure, modernization, and national security strategy. Andreessen joins as one of thirteen members named alongside chair…

Haye KestelooJun 29

Ukraine

Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones to Counter China

Kuma Academy launched Taiwan's first civil defense drone training program in May 2026, filling sessions that now sell out two months in advance.

Rafael SuárezJun 24

Germany

Urban Ray Pushes Medical Drone Logistics Forward

The useful part is what that implies, because the real bottleneck in drone logistics has never been the flight alone, it has been the operational chain around it.

Rafael SuárezJun 22

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