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Ohio Launches Statewide Drone First Responder Pilot
Ohio is not dipping a toe into Drone as First Responder. It is building a runway. The Ohio Department of Transportation, through DriveOhio, has selected nine public safety agencies for the Ohio Statewide Drone First Responder Pilot Program, a coordinated…
Summerville DFR Launches With Nokia, Motorola and BRINC
For years, when a police department announced a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program, you could almost guess the brand before the press conference ended. Usually it was DJI. Sometimes Skydio. This time, it is neither. The Summerville Police Department…
New York Secures $17.2M to Stop Illegal Drones
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the horizon, New York is reinforcing its airspace. Governor Kathy Hochul announced that more than $17.2 million in federal funding has been awarded to four key public safety agencies through the Counter Unmanned…
Wilmington PD Expands DJI Drone Fleet
The Wilmington Police Department is quietly building one of the more capable local police drone programs in North Carolina, and this week it gave WWAY3 a closer look at the aircraft helping officers respond faster and safer. Front and center…
Skydio X10 Drone Finds Missing Alzheimer’s Patient in 24 Minutes
A 76 year old woman with Alzheimer’s walked out of her home into a cold Colorado evening. Within 24 minutes, a drone had found her standing in live traffic. That is not a futuristic concept. It happened last week in…
UC Irvine’s FlyTrap Attack Defeats DJI Mini 4 Pro and HoverAir X1 Autonomous Tracking With an Ordinary Umbrella
The paper dropped this week at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, and the finding is blunt: an ordinary umbrella covered with an AI-generated pattern can trick autonomous target-tracking drones into flying directly toward the person…
Orlando approves $6.83M Skydio drone program after trial drone beat officers to the scene one-third of the time
The Orlando City Council voted Monday to approve a $6.83 million Drone as First Responder program built on Axon’s Skydio platform. The decision comes after a seven-week pilot at OPD headquarters produced a striking result: a single drone arrived before…
Illinois bill requires sex offenders to register drones with state police
Illinois Rep. Katie Stuart (D-112th) has introduced HB4332, a bill that would force individuals on the state’s Sex Offender Registry to disclose drone ownership to the Illinois State Police. The bill amends the Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act to add…
JIATF 401’s counter-UAS marketplace is now live, and the Pentagon’s ‘Amazon for drone defense’ is open for orders
The online counter-drone shopping portal that DroneXL first covered back in November just hit a major milestone. Joint Interagency Task Force 401 announced on Monday that its counter-unmanned aircraft systems marketplace has reached initial operational capability, meaning military bases and…
Washington County Tests DFR Drone Program
In Washington County, deputies just gained a new pair of eyes in the sky. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has launched a Drone as First Responder program, and it is already turning routine calls into coordinated aerial operations, as KGW8…
Kansas invests $3M in ag drone expansion
Kansas is putting serious money behind agricultural drones. Governor Laura Kelly announced the state will invest $3 million in a drone initiative aimed at improving yields, reducing input costs, managing livestock, and expanding precision agriculture capabilities across the state. The…
BRINC teases next-gen DFR drone with ‘Command the Night’ reveal set for March 24
BRINC Drones is gearing up to unveil its next-generation Drone as First Responder (DFR) aircraft on March 24, 2026. The company’s teaser campaign, branded “Command the Night,” points to a drone built specifically for low-light and nighttime law enforcement operations.…