OpenWorks Engineering Ltd and Liteye Systems Inc have announced they formed an exclusive partnership to support military, law enforcement and security authorities with their counter-UAS missions; The
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Dedrone launches Drone Tracker update to combat swarming done attacks
Dedrone has released DroneTracker 3.5, a drone detection system aimed at defeating drone swarms. “Drone swarms, or more than three drones in a single area,
Read moreNew York State extends drone research corridor business
New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced (https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-successful-expansion-unmanned-aerial-systems-industry-central-new-york) that the Empire State Development Board of Directors signed off on USD10 million in additional
Read moreState Farm insurance given FAA waiver to fly BVLOS and drone operations over people
US insurance company State Farm (https://newsroom.statefarm.com/faa-drone-approval-for-damage-assessment/) reports that it has been granted a waiver by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for beyond visual line of
Read more“The real challenge of UTM is to define a single system with different users and communications methods”
Christian Struwe is Head of Public Policy Europe at DJI. DJI has its own UTM solution Aeroscope – what has been the market response to this?
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First shared airspace flight demonstrations underway in Ireland’s UTM U-Flyte research programme
The first flights involving manned and unmanned aircraft sharing the same airspace have taken place at Waterford Airport, Ireland, as part of the U-Flyte UTM
Read moreToulouse joins the EIP-SCC Urban Air Mobility programme
Toulouse Métropole has joined the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Initiative of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC). The initiative is led
Read moreThree take-aways from ICAO’s Drone Enable 2: Answers as well as questions to UTM/ATM integration
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Integrating two completely different cultural, institutional and technical airspace management systems was never going to be easy but what Drone Enable 2
Read moreUK government advisers propose public consultation on air taxis
The UK’s Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council (SAC) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-future-of-flight-2017/position-statement-on-future-of-flight) has recommended that the department should start a public consultation on whether and how urban air
Read moreSensofusion launches upgraded version of AIRFENCE C-UAS
sUAS News (https://www.suasnews.com/) reports that Sensofusion is launching a latest version of its AIRFENCE counter-UAS system. “AIRFENCE 6.0 dramatically improves and upgrades Sensofusion’s capabilities to detect
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