by Michael Willoughby This fall, Wing, FedEx Express, Walgreens, and local retailer Sugar Magnolia will launch a pilot programme to make drone delivery available to
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
New York UAS Symposium discusses progress in UTM service supplier data sharing
NUAIR (Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research) – a New York based nonprofit coalition of private and public entities and academic institutions to provide expertise in
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US Army outlines six-layered battlefield counter-UAS research programme
The US Army will start final level 6 TLT trials (Levels of Technology Readiness) on its Ballistic Low Altitude Drone Engagement (BLADE) programme by the
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NASA examines results of Reno, Corpus Christi urban UTM flight trials
Results from test flights of drones in the urban environments of Reno, Nevada and Corpus Christi, Texas, are being examined by NASA before being sent
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US National Science Foundation funds new research into 5G airspace integration efforts
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is supporting the development and deployment of a new Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) platform based in Raleigh
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Saudi oil refinery attacks suggests States will have to re-think counter-UAS strategies
By Tony Reeves of Level 7 Expertise The recent attacks on two Saudi oil installations have been widely reported to be coordinated attacks by long-range
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Will UTM eventually spell the demise of the commercial drone operator?
Tim McCarthy, Senior Lecturer (Dept of Computer Science), Maynooth University (Dublin, Ireland) In this short article “a commercial drone operator” is taken to mean any
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“New research shows how European GNSS networks enhance drone navigational performance”
Karel Callewaert, Senior Consultant, VVA VVA, together with GMV and CATEC, has been contracted by the European Commission’s DG GROW to provide support to the
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Belgium introduces automated UTM airspace authorisation and management system
Belgium’s air navigation service provider (ANSP) skeyes and the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority have today released Droneguide PRO – a system which automates the administrative
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Terra Drone UTM system supports downtown Tokyo drone test flight
Japan’s Terra Drone in collaboration with real estate company Mitsubishi Estate, has conducted a test flight in the city of Tokyo to showcase how drones
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