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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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
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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US Air Force seeks suppliers for C-UAS contracting hub to link research, operational units
The US Air Force has extended its deadline for its request for proposals to industry for a counter small UAS contracting vehicle ( FA875021R1000) from
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UTM company Aeroscript “to start drone integration trials in St Petersburg airspace”
Philip Butterworth-Hayes Russian UAS traffic management (UTM) company Aeroscript has announced it will shortly start trials to integrate drones into the airspace around St Petersburg,
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