The UK Secretary of State for Transport has approved the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) latest Airspace Modernisation Strategy (AMS). This new version replaces the 2017/18
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Canada drone/light aircraft collision report – no injuries, fatalities “but see-and-avoid procedures failed”
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has released its investigation report (A21O0069) into the August 2021 collision between a remotely piloted aircraft, commonly referred
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Epirus announces a US Army USD66.1 million contract for high power microwave C-UAS systems
Epirus has announced today that it has won a USD $66.1 million contract award from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO)
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Edgesource “donates more than USD2 million” in C-UAS equipment to Ukraine
Edgesource Corporation has announced today that in 2022 it donated approximately USD2 million in Windtalker™ Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) technology and the centralized Dowding™
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Drone delivery group white paper calls for unified approach to UK drone regulation
Drone Delivery Group has submitted a white paper entitled ‘A National Strategy for Drones Across Land, Sea and Air’ to the UK government. The proposal
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Swift Group and NEDO agree to develop a platform for UAVs and UAM planning for urban environments
Swift Engineering has announced its Japanese Subsidiary, Swift Xi, signed an agreement with Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) in a project called “Digital
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Florence Peretola Airport “outlines plans to develop vertiport”
Amazon drone delivery services among sectors affected by company redundancy policy
Amazon’s plans to lay off 18,000 workers across the company including retail activities have knock-on effects on Amazon’s drone delivery programme, says a report by
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DroneSec reports 60% increase in drone incidents in 2022 compared with 2021
Drone threat intelligence company DroneSec has published a review of major drone incidents recorded in 2022, compared with incidents in 2021. According to the report:
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Inmarsat launches compact satellite terminal to support UAV datalink communications
Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced the development of a compact satellite terminal for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as part of the
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