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NASA Collaborates with JAXA to use Drones for Disaster Recovery Drill

NASA has partnered with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, to successfully demonstrate the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems on a use case to support emergency response and disaster recovery activities. This test, which happened in October 2018,…

Anduril Gets $31M US Air Force SkyFence Contract

Anduril Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, California, was awarded a $31,115,802 firm-fixed-price delivery order for Wide-Area Infrared System for Persistence Surveillance SkyFence. This contract provides for a passive sensing capability, coupled with sensor fusion and artificial intelligence, for use by the…

What Happened to Drone Delivery and What Can We Learn From It?

Despite all of the excitement and all of the big investment in drone programs, we still don’t have drone delivery in most places. Food’s still being dropped off by gig drivers, and nobody’s getting a new iPhone 18XXL dropped onto…

PhD Student Jailed for Life for Building IS Kamikaze Drone

A PhD engineering student who built a ‘kamikaze’ drone in the hopes it would deliver chemical weapons for Isis was jailed for life on DEcember 22nd. Mohamed Al Bared, 27, used a 3D printer in his bedroom to put together a prototype of…

EHang’s EH216-S Passenger Aerial Vehicles Successfully Complete Commercial Flight Demonstrations in Guangzhou and Hefei, Paving the Way for Aerial Mobility Integration in China

EHang’s EH216-S Passenger-Carrying Aerial Vehicles Successfully Conducted Commercial Flight Demonstrations in Guangzhou and Hefei: Moving Aerial Mobility in China Forward EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH), a global leader in urban air mobility (“UAM”) technology, has announced the successful debut commercial…

Japan and USA Sign Joint Agreement for AI and UAS Research

The U.S. Department of Defense and the Japanese Ministry of Defense signed a project arrangement for joint research on Overwhelming Response through Collaborative Autonomy, Dec. 22, 2023. The project’s objective is to revolutionize airborne combat by merging state-of-the-art artificial intelligence…

PrecisionHawk Files for Bankruptcy

PrecisionHawk, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based developer of commercial drones, is shutting down. In mid-December 2023, the company voluntarily filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy indicates a company no longer has plans to continue operating. According to the…

Turkey’s Anka 3 Stealth Drone Performs Maiden Flight

Turkey’s first flying-wing, deep-strike unmanned aerial vehicle has successfully performed its maiden flight, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Thursday, the latest addition to the country’s famed homegrown drone fleet. The debut of the new generation air combat fighter, named…

7 of the biggest 2024 drone stories we’re following

Happy 2024, dronies! Last week we looked back at the 11 biggest drone news stories of 2023. But now that it’s the new year, it’s time to look ahead, and there’s plenty of changes, policies and products set for lift…