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Policy & Regulation
Seven Years Late, FAA Proposes Petition-Based Drone Restrictions Over 9,000 Critical Infrastructure Sites
The FAA's long-overdue Section 2209 NPRM creates a two-tier Unmanned Aircraft Flight Restriction framework covering more than 9,000 facilities across 16 sectors. Comments close July 6, 2026.
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Counter-UAS
French Rafale Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia — NATO's Second Intercept in Three Weeks
A French Air and Space Force Rafale operating from Lithuania downed a drone over eastern Latvia on June 8, the second confirmed NATO intercept over allied territory in roughly three weeks, sharpening a debate over whether rotating fighters alone can hold the eastern flank.
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Industry & Contracts
PDW Acquires Vanteon to Own Its RF Stack for Contested-Spectrum Operations
Performance Drone Works is buying Rochester-based Vanteon Corporation — 40-plus years of RF and software-defined radio engineering — to bring comms resilience in-house as GPS-denied, spectrum-contested environments become the baseline threat assumption for military small UAS.
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Counter-UAS
THORIS: Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF Build a Jam-Then-Lase C-UAS Escalation Ladder
Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF unveiled THORIS at ILA Berlin 2026 — a modular counter-UAS system that sequences RF jamming and high-energy laser defeat on a single C2 stack, with full vehicle integration targeting a 2028 market entry.
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Defense & Combat
Senate NDAA Panel Wants a Four-Star Drone Command to Fix the Stovepipe Problem
The Senate Armed Services Committee's FY2027 NDAA includes a provision permitting a new Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant Command, a four-star headquarters with acquisition authority designed to end service-by-service drone silos — but it is a committee bill, not law.
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