The Cincinnati Business Courier (https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/07/20/university-of-cincinnati-project-secures-nearly-1m.html) and UASVision.com report that a University of Cincinnati project to develop a new management system for unmanned aircraft has secured
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DroneShield, ISI launch non-military mobile counter-UAS system
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The Future Flight Consortium – led by Garuda Robotics and comprising Singapore Civil Defence Force, Parkway Pantai, Security Industry Institute, Singtel, Arete-M, AirMap, Gemalto,
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Read morePoland’s Droniada BVLOS competition “paves the way for UTM, risk assessment progress”
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Read more“With drones and UTM we have developed regulations and standards in parallel”
Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner is Secretary General of EUROCAE, the European leader in the development of worldwide recognised industry standards for aviation. You have quite an
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Read moreUS Army buys Raytheon’s Coyote UAS and KRFS radar for C-UAS applications
The U.S. Army will use Raytheon Company’s Coyote® unmanned aircraft system and the KRFS radar (Ku band radio frequency system) to counter the escalating threat of
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