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Space Force officials say Cape Canaveral is "top of the list" for new counter-drone gear within weeks, but a GAO report shows the service is short-staffed by 25% just as launch cadence climbs toward 1,000 a year.
Read the story →After GAO dismissed its protest, Anduril gets a second shot at the hardware track of DHS's $1.5B counter-UAS IDIQ — a move that could make it only the second vendor, with Leidos, to sit on both tracks of the five-year framework.
A GAO review finds the FAA has no technical milestones for drone-aircraft communication even as its fleet swells toward 1.18 million by 2029, a gap exposed just as the agency published a NextGen fact sheet touting DroneZone, LAANC and Remote ID.
The Kentucky 'drone slayer' case never settled the law, and two 2024 Florida prosecutions show real consequences. Here's what the case law and stalled state bills actually say about shooting down a drone.
A verified cost ladder across drone classes, from $500 FPV strike drones to a $618 million MQ-4C Triton, showing why unit cost, all-up-round cost, and program cost are not the same number.
The Space Force killed its Resilient GPS anti-jam satellite program in January 2026. Here's why it died, what M-code, GPS IIIF and CRPA anti-jam antennas are doing instead, and why the timing is brutal given jamming in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The 2018 Gatwick drone incident cost airlines £50 million and stranded 110,000 passengers — and the perpetrators were never found. Five years on, U.S. airports face hundreds of incursions annually while the FAA still cannot neutralize a drone on its own. Here's how the technology and authority fit together.
On January 13, 2025, DJI stopped blocking its drones from flying into restricted airspace—ending a decade of hard firmware locks. Here is what replaced them: the FAA airspace stack, Remote ID enforcement, and where every layer of the system breaks down.
Public Law 118-63, signed May 16, 2024, mandates a BVLOS rule, rethinks Remote ID, and funds a five-year runway for aerial autonomy. Here is what every operator and developer needs to know.
BVLOS operations at scale hinge on one unsolved problem: teaching drones to see and avoid other aircraft without a pilot's eyes. A look at the cooperative and non-cooperative sensing, competing standards, and hardware programs racing to close that gap.
The FAA provides no air traffic services below 400 feet, where drone density is set to explode. UAS Traffic Management replaces centralized control with a federated network of software intermediaries — and a decade of NASA research shows why that architecture is the only one that can scale.
Unlike battery-powered UAS that fly to a destination, tethered drones hover over one — drawing continuous ground power through a Kevlar-reinforced tether to deliver days of unbroken ISR, secure fiber-optic data, and jamming-immune comms relay that free-flying platforms simply cannot match.
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