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US drone-industry presidential executive orders will put huge pressure on the FAA

June 7, 2025 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Counter-UAS systems and policies, UAS traffic management news

If you have any golf games scheduled with friends or family working in FAA administrative offices over the next three months, forget it. On June

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Operation Spiderweb – why telecom networks are the new Trojan Horse

June 2, 2025 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Counter-UAS systems and policies

By Philip Butterworth-hayes Was Operation Spiderweb, the June 1 drone strike into Russian territory by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), an important step in

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How to recognise if your drone has been jammed or spoofed during flight

January 15, 2025 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By Pawel Korzec Co-founder and CEO at DroneRadar. First published in www.droneradar.eu – republished with kind permission. First, we’d like to underline the fact, that

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It works! Lessons from GUTMA’s Harmonized Skies 2024

December 5, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By Sebastian Babiarz, GUTMA Co-president, Amanda Boekholt, GUTMA Treasurer, Koen De Vos, GUTMA Secretary-General.,Emmie Derbäck, InterUSS Platform Outreach Committee The federated UTM system works well

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“Act on Part 108 now to enable BVLOS operations” – joint opinion from CDA and AUVSI

October 15, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

Michael Robbins is President and CEO of the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). Lisa Ellman is Executive Director of the Commercial Drone Alliance. Here.

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“Navigating U-space and USSP certification: a new era in drone airspace management”

October 10, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By Amit Ganjoo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Technologies As the global drone industry grows and evolves, managing airspace for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has

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What’s happening to UTM research? Government spending falls at the wrong time

October 7, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, UAS traffic management news

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes On 19 September 2024, the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Joint Undertaking announced that 18 exploratory research projects had officially kicked

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AAM market dominance: who is winning the global AAM network wars? Part one

July 12, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Urban air mobility

The latest update to the 500 page plus Global AAM/UAM Market Map database now includes details on 249 individual advanced/urban air mobility programmes in 60 countries throughout

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Flying a drone for the Fourth? So is everyone else. How to keep safe this Independence Day

July 3, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

Mary-Lou Smulders, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Government Affairs, Dedrone Summer is the peak travel season in the US, and 2024 is no exception.

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Eurosatory 2024: Excellent technical military counter-UAS solutions to the wrong problem

June 22, 2024 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Counter-UAS systems and policies

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes On my way to the Eurosatory defence show in Paris last week I met a Ukrainian defence procurement official. “We have one

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EMERGING REGULATIONS

US establishes counter drone task force as part of wider EO on securing airspace

June 7, 2025

Presidential order directs FAA to enable routine BVLOS operations

June 7, 2025

AUVSI president testifies: “Individual waivers are not a substitute for a comprehensive rule”

June 5, 2025

EUROCAE opens consultation on proposed USSP and SAIL documentation

May 28, 2025

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Global AAM infrastructure planning “now over USD100 million a month: China, US soar while Europe languishes”

January 27, 2025

New training courses launched to link UK local authorities with drone and AAM industries

December 12, 2024

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Operation Spiderweb – why telecom networks are the new Trojan Horse https://www.unmannedairspace.info/counter-uas-systems-and-policies/operation-spiderweb-why-telecom-networks-are-the-new-trojan-horse/

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Finland launches Fintraffic Sky digital drone/civil aviation flight advisory platform https://www.unmannedairspace.info/news-first/finland-launches-fintraffic-sky-digital-drone-civil-aviation-flight-advisory-platform/

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U-ELCOME Italian cluster demonstrates cross-border U-space coordination

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US Army seeking thousands of C-sUAS which can be exported for use in Taiwan

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US Chamber of Commerce calls for expanded C-UAS authority pilot programme https://www.unmannedairspace.info/counter-uas-systems-and-policies/us-chamber-of-commerce-calls-for-expanded-c-uas-authority-pilot-programme/

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High Lander and INVOLI form traffic management partnership https://www.unmannedairspace.info/latest-news-and-information/high-lander-and-invloi-form-traffic-management-partnership/

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