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The FAA's new $12M round of drone research awards, with four going to ANRA and three to SPS Aerial, comes from money Congress already set aside, and it buys data for a BVLOS rule that has been at OIRA since July 10.
Read the story →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.
BayCare and Zipline will build a Part 135-certified drone network across 16 Tampa Bay hospitals, starting in St. Petersburg-Clearwater with first flights targeted for late 2027.
Zipline's decade of operations across Africa has produced peer-reviewed evidence of reduced maternal mortality and vaccine stockouts. US hospital networks are building toward BVLOS corridors—but the FAA's case-by-case waiver system remains the binding constraint.
Wing and Walmart have crossed 1 million cumulative drone deliveries — 40% of them in a single quarter — and are now expanding to Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Salt Lake City as part of a push toward 270-plus locations by 2027.
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