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Ukrainian soldier raising a SHARK fixed-wing reconnaissance drone overhead before launch against a clear blue sky

Drone Software · Delta

US Army Can't Match Ukraine's Delta Drone Software, Secretary Says

Ukraine's Delta software cut its kill chain to minutes. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told the Senate the fault for falling behind was his own.

Haye KestelooAug 268 min read

DJI Metadata Embedder desktop app showing a 3D flight map with two drone flights drawn as translucent red curtains rising from green terrain beside a lake

Open Source

DJI Metadata Embedder Turns Your Flight Folders Into The Maps DJI Never Built

A security architect built a free, open-source tool that turns DJI telemetry into 3D flight maps, geotagged videos, and sun-position footage verification. Then he asked DroneXL what to build next.

Haye KestelooJul 28

Netherlands

Netherlands Bets €30 Million That Drone Software Beats Drone Hardware

The Dutch Ministry of Defense will invest more than €30 million in Intelic, the Amsterdam company whose NEXUS command-and-control software lets drones from competing manufacturers fly inside a single operational picture. The three-year strategic partnership, announced Friday, makes the Netherlands what Intelic says is the first country in the world to formally fund a Software-First…

Haye KestelooJul 5

DJI

MIT and Penn Open-Source MIGHTY, a Drone Motion Planner That Cuts Out Six-Figure Commercial Software

Researchers at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania have released MIGHTY, an open-source motion planner that lets drones react to obstacles in milliseconds using only onboard sensors and compute. The system, detailed in a paper accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and announced by MIT, jointly optimizes flight path and travel time in a…

Haye KestelooMay 28

PRISM

Teledyne FLIR’s Prism C-UAS Hunts Drones With AI and Thermal

Teledyne FLIR OEM launched Prism C-UAS on April 28, a counter-drone software stack that pairs thermal imaging with AI-driven object detection and tracking. The pitch is detection range, as reported by Business Ware. Prism can lock onto a drone showing fewer than four pixels on target, which buys defenders more time to respond before a…

Rafael SuárezMay 1

DJI

DJI Modify 1.6 Sharpens Its 3D Modeling Toolkit

DJI just dropped version 1.6.0 of its Modify software, and the update targets the professionals who actually depend on drone-captured 3D data every day. Surveyors, construction crews, public safety agencies, and infrastructure inspectors all get meaningful workflow improvements in this release. What Modify Does and Why It Matters DJI Modify isn’t a household name, even…

Rafael SuárezApr 15

Auterion

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 reports. The program is overseen by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport…

Rafael SuárezMar 22

Drone Software

Ottonomy Launches Ottumn.AI to Orchestrate Drones and Robots

At the India AI Summit, California based Ottonomy.IO unveiled Ottumn.AI, a cloud orchestration platform designed to coordinate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure as if they were sections of the same mechanical orchestra, as published by The Robot Reports. The company built Ottumn.AI on NVIDIA artificial intelligence infrastructure, with backing from the NVIDIA Inception program. The…

Rafael SuárezFeb 21

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