Suppliers of third-party service providers have welcomed a small but important change in the final draft of the FAA Reauthorization bill – the provision of
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Airservices Australia survey predicts 60 million drone flights by 2043
Airservices Australia commissioned an analysis of the drone market that predicts commercial drone flights will increase by an average of 20% per annum over the
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JARUS releases white paper addressing automation of the airspace environment
The Joint Authorities for Rulemaking of Unmanned Systems (JARUS) has announced the release of its whitepaper addressing the considerations for the automation of the airspace
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What the new EU Artificial Intelligence Act means for drones, UTM and eVTOLs
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes On January 24 this year the European Commission launched a package of measures to support European companies in the development of trustworthy
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What’s ahead for 2024 in the US drone world: DFR and remote ID take off but DJI doesn’t
By Mary-Lou Smulders, Chief Marketing Officer at Dedrone 2024 has officially arrived. Already tired of election coverage? We’ve still got 11 months to go. But
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Integrating connectivity and ground risk data for drone operations – Airborne RF
Telecom operators play a key role in the evolving drone landscape by collaborating with platforms which Common Information Service Providers (CISPs). As the industry continues
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Cellular-enabled aerial vehicles: GSMA paper explores cellular support for drones
The GSMA North America Vertical Application Taskforce (NAVA) has published a new whitepaper about cellular-enabled Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UASs) reflecting
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Fighting tomorrow’s war: our view of battlefield counter-UAS procurement challenges in 2024
Tim Mahon is Publishing Director, Counter-UAS for Unmanned Publications Ltd. There is an age-old military adage that tomorrow’s war will be fought at the junction
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FAA and NASA experts share top UAS and UAM developments in 2023
An interview by Dawn of Drones with Kevin Morris, Federal Aviation Administration drone specialist and Huy Tran, Director of Aeronautics at the Ames Research Center
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Iran’s Shahed-238 presents stiffer challenges for counter-UAS in Ukraine
The emergence of Iran’s jet-powered Shahed-238 UCAV, revealed by the Ashura University of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies last November, has led to considerable speculation on
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