The UK government’s Innovate UK has announced it will invest up to UKP30 million in innovation projects as part of phase two of its Future
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
Positioning the COVID-19 drone response: delivering medicines but removing privacy rights?
By Chris Stonor At the start of May a French judge ruled in favour of allowing the Interior Ministry to continue to use drones to
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US Army seeks industry/academic partner to help assess soldier and base protection technologies
The US Army’s ACC-APG, RTP Division, on behalf of the Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Data and Analysis Center (DAC) “is exploring the possibility of
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“Edge computing will open up new revenue streams for UTM companies, drone operators and telecommunications providers”
What are the commercial opportunities for UTM service providers, drone operators and mobile network operators in moving their services to the edge? This was the
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Latvia closes airspace as prototype drone goes rogue
A nationwide hunt for a missing drone was still underway on May 6 after a 26kg drone built by Latvia’s UAVFactory left its planned flight
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From rogue drone detection to micro-weather forecasting – the technical capabilities of mobile phone networks
Cellular networks can provide more than just advanced connectivity services to drone operators and UTM service suppliers – they can deliver a range of advanced
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European U-space demonstrator projects focus on next steps
In the third webinar hosted by SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) at the end of April, speakers highlighted the next steps for the safe integration of
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PansaUTM supports drone flights of COVID-19 test samples between Warsaw hospitals
On 29 April, a pilot project was carried out to transport samples for testing for the presence of the COVID-19 virus using a cargo drone
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Ascent Vision launches latest version of expeditionary warfare X-MADIS C-UAS
Ascent Vision Technologies (AVT) has released the latest variant of the eXpeditionary Mobile Air Defense Integrated System (X-MADIS), offering next-generation portable, on-the-move counter sUAS capabilities.
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“ISO to develop standards for small cargo drones vertiports” – EuroUSC-Italia
On 27 April 2020, ISO Technical Committee TC/20 (Aerospace) approved the launch of the New Work Item (NWI) 5015-2 to develop an international standard on
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