NOAA has awarded Black Swift Technologies (BST) a contract to develop GPS-denied navigation, enabling Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for drones in GNSS-denied environments. N... Read more
A Senate Bill, now on the President’s desk, would require changes in the membership composition of the influential Drone Advisory Committee (DAC). The Drone Advisory Committee was es... Read more
Guest Post: This article published with permission from our friends at DroneII, Drone Industry Insights. Article authored by Millie Radovic. Unmanned Traffic Management, or UTM for short, ha... Read more
A new FAA drone training initiative will certify institutions offering UAS programs and provide opportunities for collaboration with the agency. The program is a focused effort to match tra... Read more
The integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace (NAS) is a complex problem – and security is one major aspect of it. Government agencies in the U.S. and abroad are inc... Read more
While most of the bad publicity around “rogue drones” comes from a perceived (and sometimes real) danger of interference between unmanned and manned aircraft, French company Done... Read more
DJI isn’t waiting around for a Remote ID ruling before developing a system. The world’s largest drone manufacturer announced yesterday that they’ve successfully demonstrat... Read more
Raytheon, a Fortune 500 company specializing in defense, cybersecurity and civil government technology, announced a partnership with airspace intelligence platform AirMap earlier this year.... Read more
There are a few companies with the resources and clout to make rapid advances in the drone industry – and Google spin-off Wing is one of them. Wing has announced that it is using the... Read more
At the FAA UAS Symposium in Baltimore, Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell announced that the FAA would offer new partnerships with the commercial drone industry to help move the integration... Read more
Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s recent address to the Transportation Research Board named three new initiatives for drones: but only one of them garnered the atten... Read more
FAA is undergoing some leadership changes. They recently announced that Jay Merkle will be the new head of drone integration, replacing Earl Lawrence. FAA is still working under Acting Adm... Read more
DRONELIFE has had the opportunity to meet many of the influencers in the European drone industry this fall, and from Frankfurt to London to Amsterdam, one thing is clear: Europe is ready and... Read more
News and Commentary. In a widely publicized FAA-funded report titled Assessing the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and... Read more