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A Flock Drone Now Guards Georgia’s Most Notorious Jail

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office launched the system on March 19 in partnership with Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based public safety

Rafael SuárezMar 24

Brazil

Brazil Lets Delivery Drones Fly Over Cities Without Asking Permission First

Brazil just made drone delivery significantly less bureaucratic, which is not a sentence most people expected to write about any country’s aviation regulator, as AINONLINE reported. On March 16, ANAC, Brazil’s civil aviation authority, authorized Speedbird Aero to fly its DLV-2 A25 delivery drone over areas with population densities up to 12,950 people per square…

Rafael SuárezMar 23

Aerovironment

AeroVironment Acquires ESAero in $200M Deal

AeroVironment just announced on a press release that has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace in a transaction valued at approximately $200 million, adding a certified aerospace prototyping and manufacturing operation to a company that has spent the last twelve months aggressively reshaping itself into something much larger than a drone maker. The deal closed March 16…

Rafael SuárezMar 20

Industry

Parallel Flight Firefly Clears FAA Hurdle, Heads to Market

California’s Parallel Flight Technologies just received the regulatory green light that changes everything for the company. The FAA has granted the Firefly heavy-lift drone a Section 44807 exemption, authorizing commercial operations in U.S. airspace, as UAVHQ reported. This is not a small milestone. The Section 44807 exemption is the specific legal pathway for unmanned aircraft…

Rafael SuárezMar 15

Screenshot of the EU Motors listing for the 3115 motor and its specifications.

Florida

EU Motors Opens Florida Plant to Build Drone Motors in America

A Polish drone motor manufacturer just opened a production facility in South Florida, and the reason it exists at all tells you everything about where the U.S. drone industry is headed. EU Motors, one of the largest brushless DC motor producers outside of China, opened EU Motors USA in Hallandale Beach, Broward County, on February…

Rafael SuárezMar 15

Industry

Trump Family’s Drone Portfolio Reaches $750 Million as Pentagon Scales Up Procurement

A breakdown of Bloomberg’s report on the Trump family’s $750 million drone portfolio. We analyze the reverse mergers of Powerus and Xtend, the Unusual Machines Army contract, and what the Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance initiative means for these investments.

Haye KestelooMar 13

Teal

Drone Dominance Gauntlet I: Skycutter Tops Leaderboard As Pentagon Prepares $150 Million Attack Drone Order

The Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program has named 11 Gauntlet I winners set to share a $150 million order for 30,000 one-way attack drones. Skycutter topped the leaderboard with 99.3 points — and the results arrive one week after U.S. forces used attack drones in combat for the first time during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.

Haye KestelooMar 6

Safer Skies Act Gives Amusement Parks New Counter-Drone Tools — But the FAA's Section 2209 Rule Is the Real Prize - Trespassing warning after illegal drone flight over Disney World

White House

Amusement Parks Win Counter-Drone Authority. The FAA’s Section 2209 Fight Is Just Starting.

The Safer Skies Act is now law, giving trained law enforcement counter-drone authority at amusement parks. But the FAA's Section 2209 rulemaking will determine whether permanent airspace restrictions follow. Here's what Part 107 pilots need to watch.

Haye KestelooMar 6

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