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The UTM industry is facing a financial crisis – business models no longer work

February 7, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, UTM and C-UAS market analysis

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes The global UTM/U-space service supplier (USS) market is facing a major crisis before it really takes off – for most suppliers there

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Establishing and validating performance requirements for UTM

February 5, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

There is a need to define an appropriate set of UAS requirements for base UAS Traffic Management UTM capabilities, says Andy Thurling, NUAIR Chief Technology

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Why Silicon Valley Agile engineering approaches won’t work for urban air mobility

January 4, 2021 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

“Smart City” efforts appear to be significantly behind where they can and should be in ensuring safe urban environments for new air and ground services

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Adding UTM to counter UAS will make a whole pizza, instead of just a single slice

November 12, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By Amit Ganjoo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Technologies This industry faces a situation similar to that faced by manned aviation faced about 80 years

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Urban air safety and societal requirements

September 21, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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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How should we start to define safety risks for UAM/AAM operations?

August 17, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Urban air mobility

By David Gleave Setting the target level of safety for unmanned operations has been causing difficulties across the industry for a while.  This article seeks

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EASA’s proposed air taxi certification rules “suffer from silo approach to safety”

May 28, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its proposed methods on how to certify hybrid or electric air taxis. David Gleave, safety editor with Unmanned Publications,

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“COVID-19 has increased drone technology investment and sped regulatory action” – Canaccord white paper

May 27, 2020 Jenny Beechener Commentary, UAS traffic management news

A Q2/20 follow-on report released by global investment bank Canaccord Genuity says the drone ecosystem will grow as a result of COVID-19, reports UAS Vision.

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Positioning the COVID-19 drone response: delivering medicines but removing privacy rights?

May 11, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

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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Data security: the critical foundation of remote ID

January 31, 2020 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary

By Jon Hegranes, founder and CEO of Kittyhawk This commentary was first published on the Kittyhawk website https://kittyhawk.io/blog/data-security-the-critical-foundation-for-remote-id/ on 29 January 2020 and is being

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EMERGING REGULATIONS

CAA Singapore gathers countries and industry to advance AAM regulations

July 11, 2025

Trump’s “Restoring American Airspace Sovereignty” executive order is long overdue

June 19, 2025

GUTMA publishes UTM legislation maps for Australia, EU, Japan, USA and the global market

June 18, 2025

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June 17, 2025

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June 11, 2025

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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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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