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Industry & Contracts
Versaterm Builds LAANC Into DroneSense, but the FAA's Supplier List Only Names Aloft
Versaterm has added Aloft's FAA LAANC authorization to DroneSense, so police drone teams can request airspace approval inside the app at no extra cost. The FAA's list of public LAANC suppliers names Aloft and does not name DroneSense, which fits the company's own description of DroneSense as a secondary provider.
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Industry & Contracts
Matternet Unveils M3 With an 11-Pound Payload, but the FAA Certificate That Took the M2 22 Months Doesn't Exist Yet
Matternet's new M3 carries 11 lb over a 10-mile radius and targets commercial service in 2H 2027, but no FAA airworthiness criteria for it have been published, and the M2's took 22 months from proposal to final.
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Industry & Contracts
The Army Has Fielded 40,000 Attack Drones. FAA Data Shows Why It's Short on Pilots
The Army says it has fielded or is fielding 40,000 small attack drones ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline, but FAA registration data shows the hobbyist pipeline it has leaned on for pilots is shrinking fast.
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Industry & Contracts
Wing Hires Its Way to Scale: Ex-Navy X-47B Engineer and a Google Pixel Hardware VP Take C-Level Roles as Alphabet's Drone Arm Claims the Largest US Delivery Network
Wing's two new C-level hires, a Navy carrier-autonomy veteran and a former Google Pixel hardware chief, plus an FAA Houston plan sized for 30,000 flights a day, show Alphabet's drone unit gearing up to build and fly aircraft at consumer-electronics volumes.
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Industry & Contracts
Wing Aviation, Explained: From Google X Moonshot to 40 Million American Customers
Wing Aviation — Alphabet's drone delivery spinout — holds the first FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate ever issued to a drone company, operates across three continents, and is on course to reach more than 40 million Americans through Walmart by 2027.
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Industry & Contracts
Zipline: How a Drone Startup Became the World's Largest Autonomous Delivery Network
Founded in 2014 to route blood and vaccines around failed road infrastructure in Rwanda, Zipline has logged 100 million autonomous miles, serves 4,000-plus health facilities across seven countries, and is now deploying its second-generation tethered-Droid delivery system in American suburbs.
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Industry & Contracts
Drone Insurance Decoded: Liability, Hull, BVLOS, and What Things Cost
Part 107 proves you can fly — it doesn't cover anything when something goes wrong. A structured look at commercial UAS insurance: coverage types, premium ranges by operation, the on-demand policy model, and why BVLOS requires its own specialist approach.
