Following the conclusion of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, federal agencies wasted no time declaring victory over the skies. In a joint victory lap, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that multi-agency “Ground Intercept Teams” had seized more than 700 drones and detected nearly 1,600 flying

It’s been a busy week over at the Federal Communications Commission. It’s got the drone light show sector up in arms around potentially classifying drone light shows as military-grade swarms, which would severely restrict the U.S. drone light show industry. But today’s topic is potentially even spicier. That’s because the FCC this week launched its

If you’ve ever watched a few hundred illuminated drones dance across the night sky forming a floating, glowing cartoon or a city logo, your first thought probably wasn’t: “Ah, yes. A terrifying display of military-grade swarm warfare!” Certainly that was not the case at my own wedding drone show. Yet, in the grand bureaucrat-speak of

When I last wrote about defense robotics standout XTEND this spring, the company was flying high on a flurry of massive tactical contracts and a highly publicized, politically buzzy $1.5 billion merger. And now, we have a major announcement out of the UK defense sector that suggests this coming might actually be going somewhere. XTEND

In a landmark moment for the electric aviation sector, BETA Technologies and biotech company United Therapeutics completed the first operational flights under the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program (eIPP). And with it, they flew an animal organ in a containment system (a

Silicon Valley drone delivery pioneer Matternet is shifting its commercial playbook, introducing Beeline UAS as its newest FAA Part 135 operating partner to rapidly scale its footprint across the United States. The expansion comes at a time of massive momentum for the broader drone industry. Over the past year or so, we’ve seenheavyweights like Alphabet’s

As commercial drone delivery continues to gain traction in the United States, Matternet is expanding the network behind its operations. The company has announced a new partnership with Beeline UAS, adding another FAA Part 135 operator to help scale drone deliveries across the country.

Seattle-based public safety drone leader BRINC today announced a massive $125 million financing round led by telecommunications and public safety giant Motorola Solutions, with participation from Index Ventures and Figma CEO Dylan Field. This blockbuster injection of capital brings BRINC’s total funding to more than a quarter-billion dollars. And what do they plan to do

As the skies have matured, a multi-billion-dollar shadow industry has quietly exploded alongside it: Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS). And a slew of recent news suggests that the counter-drone sector is massive — and growing. That includes news of Cellebrite’s exclusive investigative integration with SkySafe, Axon’s blockbuster earnings report showing a 300% surge in its Dedrone

For years, the conversation around drone delivery in the United States followed a frustratingly familiar loop of bold promises around tacocopters and many “firsts” of every food known to man being delivered. But it’s also been over a decade of strict regulatory hurdles and localized trial limitations that have kept the drone industry trapped in