DroneShield has announced the sale of 70 DroneGuns™ to a Ministry of Defence of a major Middle Eastern country allied with the Western governments. The USD3.2 million
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ASELSAN “successfully tests C-UAS laser weapon”
According to the Daily Sabah news service (https://www.dailysabah.com/defense/2018/06/10/turkeys-aselsan-successfully-tests-laser-defense-system) a laser defence system (LSS), developed by Turkish defence company ASELSAN to eliminate threats posed by unmanned
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Japan “to relax rules on commercial BVLOS drone operations”
The Japan Times (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/30/national/law-drone-assistants-scrapped-favor-remote-observation/#.WyK6lKinHIX) reports that a law requiring that a safety assistant be present during long-distance commercial drone operations will be scrapped, according to
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Dubai’s pioneering UTM technology: air taxis by 2020 – interview with Exponent Technology Services’ Ayhan Kamil
Ayhan Kamil is Manager, Commercial and Finance with Exponent Technology Services. How did you develop the technology and the institutional relationships to be in a position
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NASA flies detect-and-avoid equipped large UAS in Class-A airspace
NASA’s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission in the National Airspace System without
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FAA approach to drone laws “too conservative” says US science academy
A new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine suggests an overly conservative approach to safety risk assessments at the Federal Aviation
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EU Parliament passes drone law, superseding national laws
Members of the European Parliament have approved an agreement reached between Council and Parliament negotiators in November 2017 on EU-wide principles for drones and drone
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US defence department awards Six3 USD48.6 million C-UAS contract
Six3 Advanced Systems Inc., Dulles, Virginia, has been awarded a USD48.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that provides integration, installation, sustainment, and engineering services to the AIRWorks
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US DoT calls for research partners to help develop multi-UAS operations SARPs
The US Department of Transportation has issued an opportunity for academia and industry to participate in a Science and Research Panel (SARP) of the UAS
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JARUS sets up focus group to look at UAS airspace integration
The Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS) has set up a dedicated Focus Group to look into the “Integration of UAS in the
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