Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the USA’s NASA have successfully trialled a joint UTM system to support drone and manned flights for disaster response
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
ICAO calls for industry submissions on UTM topics for publication at DRONE ENABLE/4
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has published a request for information for States, industry, academia and other interested stakeholders to help fill in critical
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FAA to hold next Drone Advisory Committee meeting on 27 February
The next meeting of the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) meeting will be held on 27 February at 9 AM ET.
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Airbus and CAAS work together on urban air mobility
by Michael Willoughby Airbus and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enable urban air mobility (UAM)
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Latest data reveals high risk of delay to European U-space foundation services
By Jenny Beechener Some foundation services necessary for the first phase (U1) of Europe’s U-space programme set out in the U-space roadmap are not going
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Dubai makes progress in meeting 2022 target for commercial electric air taxi operations
Dubai is targeting 2022 for its first commercial electric air taxi operations. According to Professor Amair Saleem of the Dubai Road and Transport Authority (RTA)
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USAF seeks US contractor to provide USD490 million C-UAS command and control management system
The US Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome NY (AFRL/RI) has updated its requirement provide a focused yet flexible, rapid, agile contracting vehicle between
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“Global remote ID of drones now viable via Iridium satellite services-” RelmaTech
Multiple press sources report that UK spatial management technology company RelmaTech has announced that global identification and tracking of all flying and moving objects is technically and
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“UTM and ATM are going to be one, and much more” – Simon Johnson, GUTMA
Simon Johnson is the acting Secretary General of the Global UTM Association What is GUTMA’s mission statement? As the website says, GUTMA’s purpose is to foster
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African Drone Forum: “More autonomous than manned flights now in Rwanda”
In 2019 Rwanda become the first country in the world where the number of autonomous UAS flights overtook the number of manned aviation flights. Speaking
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