By the Editor On 27 April 2021, in recognition of his relentless efforts over the last 25 years on behalf of the European and international
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
“Drone incidents in Switzerland fall from 79 in 2019 to 40 in 2020” – FOCA safety report
The Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) in its 2020 annual safety report records that the number of drone occurrence reports declined to 40
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South Korea’s defence research agency “develops drone obstacle avoidance technology”
South Korea’s Agency for Defence Development (ADD) has built an obstacle-avoidance system for drones and air taxis, reports ajudaily.com. According to the press report: “The Agency
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New EU-funded consortium to research acceptance, safety and sustainability of UAM, including UTM
A group of companies and research laboratories from Poland, Italy, Portugal, and the Netherlands coordinated by Ł-ILOT, have teamed up to launch ASSURED – UAM,
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US Army seeks industry proposals for low-cost, handheld C-UAS units
The Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) Office (JCO) is seeking white-papers for sources and information to identify interest and ability to provide potential solutions
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Naviair UTM to add “operations planning” functionality and trialing drone/manned aircraft tracking
Denmark’s Naviair UTM, the organisation appointed by the Ministry of Transport to develop and operate Denmark’s UTM platform, has announced on social media it will
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France “issues tender for nationwide EUR 350 million civil/military mobile C-UAS programme”
ForceOperations reports that France’s General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) has launched a request for tender for a nationwide, civil/military “Deployable modular anti-drone protection” (PARADE)” counter
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Germany’s D3 joins Canadian programme to implement urban UTM concepts
The German UAM startup D3 Technologies AG has joined the Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium (CAAM) to support efforts to develop Urban Air Traffic Control
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PansaUTM records rising demand for services, adds new functionalities
The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) reports that in March 2021, the number of coordinated drone missions in the PansaUTM system amounted to 1,497.
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“The drone services and UTM markets are huge and diverse and GUTMA should cover everything”
Koen De Vos is the new Secretary General of the Global UTM Association (GUTMA) What is going to be the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
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