IIOTFlirtey Wants to Enable Ten Minute Commercial Drone Deliveries WASHINGTON, D.C. — Drone delivery startup Flirtey is enabling rapid point-to-point drone delivery using a new commercial drone, a portable drone launch point and autonomous software that is FAA-approved to allow one…
UnmannedFlytrex Brings Drone Delivery to North Carolina, Eyes Expansion in Reykjavik Israeli drone delivery startup Flytrex received FAA approval to begin drone food delivery in Holly Springs, North Carolina, joining a small group of companies authorized to operate commercial deliveries via unmanned aircraft.…
Air TaxiIris to Test Commercial Drone Sense and Avoid System in BVLOS First Iris Automation, a Silicon Valley-based startup, has been working on an onboard collision avoidance system that — for the first time — will power an FAA-sanctioned flight beyond an operator’s visual line…
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 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…
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,…
RegulationSan Diego Drone IPP Launches with Cape Telepresence Tech One of the U.S.'s 10 participants in the nation-wide drone integration pilot program (IPP) launched in San Diego, California last week. To kick it off, the San Diego Fire Department responded to…