month : 09/2026 43 results

Agilis Air Raises $1.4 Million to Advance Drone Manufacturing and Autonomous UAS Technology in Ohio

Agilis Air has raised $1.4 million in early funding to expand production of its American-made Remora drone and continue development of autonomous UAS technologies in Northeast Ohio. The company also announced that the Remora has entered the U.S. Army's UAS Marketplace, making the system available ...

Smart Shooter Wins Up to $150 Million JIATF-401 Contract for SMASH Counter-Drone Systems

Smart Shooter has been awarded a 36-month, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the U.S. Department of War's Joint Interagency Task Force 401 for its SMASH fire control systems. The contract carries a maximum ordering ceiling of up to $150 million and supports counter...

Drone-in-a-Box Technology Emerges as a Tool for Wildfire Detection and Emergency Response

Drone-in-a-Box technology is emerging as a potential tool for wildfire detection, monitoring and emergency response as European authorities face increasingly severe fire seasons. Autonomous UAS deployments can provide optical and thermal monitoring, rapid incident assessment and aerial situational ...

BAE Systems and Skyryse Partner to Advance Software-Defined Autonomous Flight Technology

BAE Systems Australia and Skyryse have announced a strategic partnership to advance software-defined autonomous flight applications for government, commercial and defense aviation. The collaboration will combine Skyryse's SkyOS universal flight operating system with BAE Systems Australia's ...

R2 Wireless Wins Air National Guard Contract for ODIN Passive RF Drone Detection System

R2 Wireless has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with the Air National Guard for the purchase of its ODIN passive radio frequency sensing system. The contract expands the company's work with U.S. government and defense customers and supports the use of passive RF technology for detecting ...

Autonomous Heavy-Lift Drone Completes 1,000 km Flight Carrying Medical Blood Samples

Windracers ULTRA, a dual-use autonomous heavy-lift aircraft, has completed a 1,000-kilometer flight in Alaska carrying anti-doping blood samples as part of a study examining whether medical samples can be transported over long distances by unmanned aircraft while maintaining their integrity. ...

Airbility Debuts Integrated Counter-UAS Interceptor Lineup in Europe at MSPO 2026

Korean deep-tech aerospace and defense company brings its full air-to-air drone interception portfolio to one of Europe's largest defense exhibitions, targeting the region's urgent counter-drone demand Airbility, a South Korean deep-tech aerospace and defense company developing high-speed ...

JIATF-401 and NORAD-NORTHCOM Establish Permanent Counter-UAS Test Lanes After Falcon Peak 26.2

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has concluded Falcon Peak 26.2 at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, completing a counter-UAS operational experimentation exercise conducted in support of U.S. Northern Command and Joint Task Force Southern Border. The exercise evaluated emerging counter-unman...

Royal Saudi Navy Moves Toward Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV Deployment Following Crew Training

The Royal Saudi Naval Forces have completed a new stage in preparations for operating the Bayraktar AKINCI unmanned combat aircraft, with 30 Saudi naval personnel graduating from training conducted by Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar in Türkiye. Baykar announced on September 25, 2026, that 15 ...

Peraso to Showcase 60 GHz mmWave Technology for High-Speed Drone and UAS Communications

Peraso will showcase its 60 GHz mmWave wireless technology for drone, defense and tactical communications at the 11th Annual UAV Technology Conference in London. The company will demonstrate beamforming and RF technologies designed to provide high-speed, low-latency communications for unmanned ...