UnmannedFAA Reviewing Comments En Route to Implementing New Drone Rule The public comment period closed this week on the FAA's proposed rule change to allow more flying drones at night and over people. "The preliminary tally for public comments is 1,821 for…
ConnectivityUAVOS Releases Auto-Tracking Antenna for UAVs Drone-maker UAVOS has introduced an auto-tracking antenna system for enabling long-range data transmission on a wide range of unmanned aircraft. The new antenna system has two communication channels featuring different antennas: a 900…
ATM ModernizationAirMap's Expansion, From Honeywell Hardware to International LAANC Unmanned traffic management (UTM) platform provider AirMap has been busy this week. It's developing a drone tracking device with Honeywell, collaborating with Fortem on a geofencing UTM service and just announced plans…
RegulationDJI: Drone Tracking Must Balance Operator Privacy and Public Safety Chinese drone-maker DJI, which holds a 70 percent market share in the worldwide civil drone market, advocates a local-broadcast identification solution to the issue of integrating unmanned systems into global airspace. Local-broadcast…
RegulationIPP Drones Aiding in Arrests for California Police Department Chula Vista, California Police Department drones have contributed to 14 arrests in the four months they have been in use as part of the FAA's Integration Pilot Program (IPP). Started last year,…
ATM ModernizationEchodyne Supporting Northern Plains UTM Testing of BVLOS Capability Radar-maker Echodyne will partner with North Dakota's Northern Plains UAS Test Site as part of the next phase of the UAS Pilot Program (UPP), one of the FAA's endeavors testing the feasibility…
RegulationGoogle's Wing, AirMap and KittyHawk Team on Remote ID, UTM Three major UAS service suppliers (USS), Google's Wing, AirMap and Kittyhawk, have teamed up to develop a distributed network for the remote identification of drones. Called InterUSS, the solution allows agencies, companies…
MilitaryUS Army Orders $40M in Personal Reconnaissance Nano-Drones The U.S. Army has given FLIR Systems a $39.6 million contract for Black Hornet tactical nano-UAVs. Purchased under the Army's Soldier Borne Sensor program, FLIR will deliver an undisclosed number of its…
ProfilesDiscussing the Evolution of Autonomy with General Atomics' Chief Engineer Chen Li makes military drones easier and more efficient to control as chief engineer for automation and autonomy for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). A Chinese immigrant who came to America…
ATM ModernizationIllegal Drone Use Grounds Gatwick Air Traffic Ahead of Christmas A United Kingdom law went into effect last July 30 that makes it a crime punishable by up to five years in jail to fly a drone within one kilometer of an…