AirMap has awarded a contract to provide unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) services to the United States Air Force (USAF)’s Agility Prime program.
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
European Commission: ANSPs can be UTM CIS providers with separate accounts
Today, the European Commission is proposing an upgrade of the Single European Sky (SES) regulatory framework which comes on the heels of the European Green Deal. As
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Urban air safety and societal requirements
By Gary Cutts, Challenge Director, Future Flight, UK Research and Innovation The UK has been at the forefront of aviation for more than 100 years.
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Regional authority to finance UAM programme in Ingolstadt with EUR100 million grant
The Bavarian Council of Ministers in Germany is supporting the Urban Air Mobility Initiative in Ingolstadt with an EUR100 million grant. A year ago, Bavaria started
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Altitude Angel to launch commercial BVLOS drone corridor with no on-board hardware needed
UK UTM company Altitude Angel has announced the creation of “the world’s first commercial drone corridor” available to support fully automated drone flights beyond visual
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“FAA needs to refine commercial UAS approvals” – FAA Administrator
Opening Commercial UAV Expo 2020, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson said the agency needs to refine its approval process for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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“Police successfully intercept illegal drone flights in Oslo” – UAS Norway
UAS Norway reports that Norwegian police in May this year used counter-UAS equipment to detect and stop operators from flying drones in Oslo’s Palace Square,
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Boeing “demonstrates CLWS mobile direct energy weapon for convoy protection”
Boeing has demonstrated its Compact Laser Weapon System (CLWS) during a September 3 field test of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) at Nellis Air
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ICAO publishes new library of UAS operational guidance materials, including UTM
On 10 September 2020 the International Air Transport Organization (ICAO) published its latest UAS guidance materials electronic bulletin (EB 2020/43). According to ICAO: “The guidance
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US Department of Defense to fund DroneShield C-UAS command and control system
DroneShield has announce it has received funding from the United States Department of Defense for targeted development of its DroneShieldCompleteTM Command-and-Control (“C2”) system.The section of
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