Five state and local government entities have signed agreements with NASA’s aeronautical innovators to work together in considering how emerging cargo-carrying drone and passenger-carrying air taxi services
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Fortem’s SkyDome “under evaluation by US Department of Homeland Security
The ExecutiveGov news service reports the US Department of Homeland Security has partnered with Fortem Technologies to evaluate the potential application of a company-built airspace monitoring system
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The next priorities for EASA and FAA on U-space/UTM regulation – GUTMA Harmonized Skies webinar
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and McKinsey will publish a joint study next week on societal acceptance of urban air mobility, according to
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Boeing proposes deeper partnerships with Switzerland on UAS, UTM and detect-and-avoid research
Boeing is proposing 11 new unmanned aircraft system (UAS) research projects with partners across Switzerland’s French, Italian and German-speaking regions. The research and development efforts
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Peter van Blijenburgh decorated for 25 years service to the industry
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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“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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