The commercial drone market is set to transition from a “nascent” to a “growth” stage, according to a new report by industry analyst Frost & Sullivan — predicting unit shipment to increase from 2.44 million units in 2019 to 2.91 million units in 2023. North America will remain the ...

Fortem Technologies released a new autonomous counter-drone solution it calls the F700 DroneHunter: a drone that can be mounted with a variety of countermeaures to protect refineries, stadiums and other critical infrastructure from drone threats without any risk to civilians or property on the ...

ModalAI has released VOXL Flight, an out-of-the-box platform that integrates autonomy and beyond visual line of sight navigation and communications capabilities for drones. It’s also the first open-development platform for autonomous drone navigation that fuses a companion computer with a PX4 ...

Draganfly was selected by the Australian Department of Defense, Science and Technology (DST) as the integration partner for a project to integrate health monitoring capabilities onto drones. Named the “Vital Intelligence Project,” this effort — using technology developed by the Australian DST ...

South Korean automaker Hyundai [HYMTF] continues to snap up key talent for its urban air mobility (UAM) division, hiring Scott Drennan, former head of Bell’s [TXT] innovation team and architect of its Nexus air taxi prototype. Drennan spent 25 years at Bell, most recently as vice president for ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is working through more than 53,000 comments on its proposed approach to remote identification for remote aircraft and hopes to issue a final ruling before the end of the year, according to FAA administrator Stephen Dickson — although that timeline will likely ...