News and Commentary. The FAA has just released the 2017 Administrator’s Fact Book. The 27-page document provides metrics, statistics and information on everything from safety to staf... Read more
Drone industry leaders AirMap and Kespry will announce later today that they have partnered to integrate AirMap’s airspace intelligence with Kespry’s automated enterprise soluti... Read more
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao took pen in hand today to publish an Op-Ed for The Hill, explaining the benefits of drone technology and touting the administration’s new UAS... Read more
A group of drone industry leaders including advocacy groups like AUVSI, the AMA, and the Small UAV Coalition, along with a long list of companies including industry giants Intel, Verizon, U... Read more
New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced his state’s partnership between NASA and the Northeast UAS Airspace Integrations Research Alliance, and the $30 million investment... Read more
Neuroscientist Dr. Denise Bjorkman is passionate about her work. She talks fast and thinks fast – and began her talk at the Drones Africa Summit this morning by paraphrasing US Repres... Read more
The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction (TFR) over the areas hit by Hurricane Harvey. But the Red Cross unmanned aircraft response team, organized by professional drone photograph... Read more
The drone industry is celebrating some of the women making headlines this year. Drone360 magazine and Women and Drones have published this year’s 2017 Women to Watch in UAS, a list of... Read more
Drone manufacturing may have been revolutionized this week. Design software and services company Autodesk and the US Marine Corps (USMC) have announced a successful project to create new mi... Read more
Funding rounds for drone companies have gotten bigger and bigger as the industry matures. A new report from CB Insights names the industry’s top 10 funding deals since 2012. Some of t... Read more
On what California-based 3DR calls a “historic day,” the company announced that it has made a deal with one-time competitor DJI. In a further move towards creating an end-to-end... Read more
Determined to be part of growing Asian drone industry, the South Korean government has announced that it will invest a further 1.2 trillion won (over $1 billion) in the industry over the nex... Read more
Skylogic Research, LLC, which operates under the brand Drone Analyst, just announced the start of its 2017 Drone Market Sector Research. The goal of the report is to be the most comprehensiv... Read more
The finalists have been chosen and the battle has already begun. On June 21-22, the Commercial UAV Expo in Europe hosts the Drone Hero Europe contest to find the best of the best drone comp... Read more