What’s the best way of ensuring all stakeholder views are represented in the development of a UTM system? Since its inception, the Unmanned Aircraft Traffic
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
FAA announces new drone integration programme webinar dates
The Federal Aviation Administration reports that more than 4300 people have registered to attend online webinars to learn how they can participate in the Drone
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Australian start-up develops portable counter-UAS drone
Spatial Source reports that Australian start-up is My Sky Technologies (http://www.myskytech.com.au/), based in Adelaide, South Australia, is developing a man-portable, field-deployable fire-and-forget counter UAV drone.
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FAA may sign agreements with more UTM providers for LAANC trial
The FAA has deployed the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability(LAANC) for drone operators at several air traffic facilities in an evaluation to see how well the prototype
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DroneShield to supply Paraguay with drone jammer
The Paraguayan Ministry of National Defence has placed an order for DroneShield’s DroneGun tactical drone jammer product, following a competitive tender. According to the company DroneShield’s distributor
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Precision Hawk and DJI want local authority partners for drone integration programme
Precision Hawk and DJI are separately seeking partners among State, local and tribal governments to take part in innovation zones as part of the recently-announced
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Maltese consortium develops drone sense and avoid system
The Times of Malta reports that Hawk Aerospace has developed a sense and avoid system for drones. The newspaper reports a team comprising Hawk, Idox
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FAA study shows cities and counties want to set and enforce their own drone rules
US local government officials would like to be able to set local restrictions as needed and, along with law enforcement colleagues, they expect to be
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ICAO to develop prototype global drone registration system by mid December
ICAO will have the first proposals for its drone registry datasets ready for scrutiny at the second Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium (GANIS/2), 11-15 December 2017 in
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New smartphone app immediately quantifies risk of drone flights
UK technology start-up Flock (flockcover.com) is due to imminently launch a smart phone app which immediately quantifies the risk of their drone flight. The app
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