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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 week, booth 34005. It’s the first product built on the company’s H1 Autonomous Systems Chip,…
Another defense tech company has made the call on California. Knightwerx, a tactical drone developer that built its name making compact military UAS, has moved its headquarters from Camarillo to Scottsdale, and it’s already hiring, as Hoodline reported. The move drops the company squarely into the Phoenix metro’s expanding defense manufacturing corridor just as it…
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has spent three weeks training pilots on first-person-view attack drones, with deployment imminent and adversaries already capable of producing millions of similar systems each year. The New York Times documented the training in a video published May 10, 2026, showing Marines with 3rd Battalion,…
The FCC's reply comment window on DJI's and Autel's Covered List petitions closes Monday, May 11. How to file in dockets 26-22 and 26-23.
The U.S. Navy has selected Insitu to continue providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services to the Navy, Marine Corps, and other federal customers, as Sea Power Magazine reported. The award covers both the ScanEagle and Integrator platforms under a Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated model, which puts Insitu’s own aircraft and operators on the mission rather than handing…
A US Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone spent more than 12 hours orbiting the coast of Cuba on April 16, tracing a pattern that passed Havana, Guantanamo
So, let me get this straight, and you tell me if I’m way off here, but DJI drones are dangerous enough to block future models, but not dangerous enough to ban the estimated 2 million that are flying around in this country right now. Because that’s exactly what this situation is starting to look like.…
FAA issues FDC 6/2824 replacing the ICE NOTAM: drops blanket drone ban and National Defense Airspace classification, adds Department of War and DOJ to covered agencies.
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