Many German emergency services have less than USD5,000 per year to spend on drone operations and the full potential of drones is often not yet
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
ANSI standards gap analysis highlights critical missing links in UAS standards development
Uncrewed air system (UAS) system safety, alignment in standards between aviation and cellular communities, UAS navigational systems, protection from Global Navigation Satellite Signals (GNSS) interference
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Farnborough 2022: New UK advanced aerial mobility consortium announced
Vertical Aerospace, Virgin Atlantic, Atkins, Skyports and NATS, along with Connected Places Catapult and leading academic institutions Cranfield University and WMG, University of Warwick, today
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European Parliament launches tender for UAS airspace integration study
The European Parliament’s Research4Committees agency has launched a tender (Tender IP/B/TRAN/IC/2022-070) for the delivery of a study on “Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ integration into European airspace,
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uAvionix launches Mode 5 IFF transponder-receiver for enhanced detect and avoid
uAvionix has reported the launch of “the world’s first Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Level 2 Broadcast (M5L2B) combined transponder-receiver (CTR). The CTR
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India’s Big Bang Boom Solutions “to supply IAF with counter-UAS units”
According to a Linkedin post from Atul Tripathi, Chennai-based Big Bang Boom Solutions (India) will deliver its Anti-Drone Defence System (ADDS) to the Indian Air
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Dedrone announces new round of USD30 million in Series C-1 financing
Counter-UAS (C-UAS) company Dedrone has announced it has closed USD30million in an oversubscribed Series C-1 financing round. “Led by public safety technology company Axon, this latest
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Sebastian Babiarz joins DroneUp as head of European airspace innovation
DroneUp LLC has today announced the appointment of Sebastian (Seb) Babiarz as its head of European airspace innovation based in Poland. Seb was recently COO
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EUROPOL 2021 terrorism report highlights potential of new digital, autonomous terrorism threats
In its latest European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2022, EUROPOL has highlighted the new threats likely to be faced by Europe’s security and
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FBI “employing C-UAS systems to detect illegal drone flights over wildfires”
Multiple press reports say the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is employing counter-UAS (C-UAS) systems to help wildland firefighters by detecting, identifying, and neutralizing
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