The Agentic Lair
The Agentic Lair
The 2025 SkyPixel winners have been named. Yes, the world’s largest aerial photography and videography community announced the winners of its 10th Annual Photo & Video Contest, marking a decade of award-winning drone-based visual arts. And with it, we have…
– Raytheon, an RTX business, fired a new version of the company’s combat-proven Coyote family of products from a helicopter during a recent test at Nine Mile Training Center, giving military forces a new capability to detect, identify, locate and…
The University of North Dakota Center for Innovation recently announced three $50,000 awards — one to each of three companies, for $150,000 in total — for Project RuralReach, an initiative designed to harness unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology to revolutionize…
The Netherlands is upgrading its Puma All Environment (AE) small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and procuring larger Puma Long Endurance (LE) UAS, the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on its website on 19 March. The contract was signed with…
A Swedish defense technology startup is aiming to disrupt the counter-drone landscape with a low-cost, high-speed interceptor designed to meet the growing threat of small unmanned aerial systems. In an interview with NextGen Defense, Karl Rosander, CEO of Nordic Air…
The U.S. Marine Corps is actively integrating unmanned aerial systems into its logistics operations, with the T150/TRV150 cargo drone emerging as a pivotal asset in enhancing battlefield resupply capabilities. The TRV150 is a versatile, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL)…
JUIDA and Seven Companies Join Ground Self-Defense Force in Nankai Rescue Drill to Prepare for Earthquakes and Natural Disasters by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian J. McNabb This article written in collaboration with JUIDA, the Japanese UAS Industrial Development Association. The…
Certification Helps Enable Safe and Legal Drone Flights Over People AVSS Completes Third-Party Testing for PRS-M30 AVSS – Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions – has completed third-party testing for its PRS-M30 parachute system designed for the DJI M30 Series. The testing…
New Certificate of Waiver (COW) Process Streamlines Approvals for Public Safety Agencies A Significant Shift in Regulatory Framework The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has introduced a groundbreaking update to the regulatory process for Drone as First Responder (DFR) operations. Chief…
Forget ballrooms and bad coffee. PS Drone Fest (officially Palm Springs Drone Fest) was something else entirely. Held in sunny Palm Springs, California, PS Drone Fest felt more like the Comic-Con of drones than your typical drone industry conference. Sure,…
North Korea has once again demonstrated its ambitions to bolster its strategic surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with the public unveiling of the , a High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) drone that bears an unmistakable resemblance to the American RQ-4 Global Hawk. First…
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Qatar of the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.96 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered…
Australian aerospace start-up Drone Forge and Airbus have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on the deployment and operational integration of the Flexrotor unmanned aerial system. This agreement, which includes the acquisition of Flexrotor systems, marks a critical…
– Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. has unveiled Acoustic Resonance Mitigation (ARM), a pioneering technology that disables drones using directed acoustic energy. ARM works by emitting sonic, ultrasonic, and/or subsonic waves at a drone, thereby inducing vibrations and /or Prandtl layer…
The U.S. Navy says it is working to reduce the growing costs of fighting Houthi drones launched from Yemen by placing two new experimental systems on destroyers that are slated to deploy later this summer. “We’re going to be deploying…