MilitaryTextron Shadow Block 3 Upgrade in Flight Tests Textron is flight testing a new Block 3 version of its AAI-developed RQ-7 Shadow UAS, which the U.S. Army has been using for 20 years and, according to Textron, plans to use…
RegulationWhat the FAA Learned About Future Air Taxis From Missteps Integrating Drones CHICAGO — The FAA wasn't ready for drones, according to its executive director for unmanned aircraft, Jay Merkle. But the Administration learned over the last several years, and it is determined not to…
CommercialGE's AiRXOS Takes on UTM through the Cloud To support the burgeoning urban air mobility (UAM) market, GE subsidiary AiRXOS has unveiled a platform for viewing and managing air mobility data and, running on it, a network ecosystem and a…
RegulationOne Year Later, Will the FAA's Drone IPP Pave the Way for New Regulation? It has been a year since the FAA launched its nation-wide UAS Integration Pilot Program with 10 teams around the country. What does its progress mean for the broader scope of rulemaking…
ATM ModernizationAUVSI 2019: Unmanned Air Taxis and Commerical UAS Airspace Integration The FAA wasn’t ready for drones, according to its executive director for unmanned aircraft, Jay Merkle. But the Administration learned over the last several years, and it is determined not to make…
UnmannedShould Air Taxis Be Unmanned from the Jump? For urban air mobility to succeed — at scale — the industry will need to answer a question: What will it do about pilots? Ultimately, many entrants to the air taxi game want autonomy…
ATM ModernizationFortem and Unifly Plan to Solve Unmanned Airspace Fortem Technologies and Unifly are tag-teaming the problem of unmanned traffic management (UTM), with a plan to provide military and government agencies an airspace solution for tracking the expected influx of drones…
UnmannedIris Automation Releases Detect-and-Avoid for Drones Iris Automation has released a commercially available avoid-and-detect solution for Part 107 drones, dubbed Casia. Iris is currently working with the FAA to "confirm [the] technology is at the highest levels of…
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