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DroneDeploy Raises $9 Million, Partners with DJI and 3DR
DroneDeploy raised $9 million in funding from Emergence capital for their new drone operation and data platform. Investors expect a high adoption rate as DroneDeploy integrates with drones from popular UAV companies DJI and 3D Robotics. The ability to control a drone from a phone or tablet is...
Hearing Reveals State of Commerical Drones in U.S.
A Senate Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee hearing revealed earliest acceptance of the recently proposed FAA rules regarding UAS would occur in the last quarter of 2016. In the interim, the FAA will be taking other critical steps to expedite the exemption process and remove...
Amazon’s drones cleared for takeoff in the U.S.
UPDATE: Amazon has filed for a new certificate to fly an updated drone. The company states that the previous drone from last week's approval is already obsolete. Just when it seemed Amazon's drone delivery service would never take off in American skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
FAA Makes it Easier to Fly Commercial Drones
The FAA recently announced it will help streamline the exemption process for companies and individuals applying for commercial drone usage and testing. Under the interim policy, before the official UAS rules are changed, the agency will grant a COA (Certificate of Authorization or Waiver) for...
PrecisionHawk joins NASA collaboration to develop tools for UAS traffic management system for low-altitude drone operations
Precision Hawk, a manufacturer of UAVs and cloud-based software to collect, manage and analyze aerial data across civilian applications, today announced that they will join the NASA collaboration to build a traffic management system for drones. In January, PrecisionHawk launched the working...
3D Robotics CEO, DIY Drones Founder Chris Anderson Keynotes InterDrone
More than 70 Media and Association partnerships already on board to help build Las Vegas Mega-event for commercial drone market MELVILLE, N.Y., March 20, 2015 ? BZ Media LLC announced today that Chris Anderson, New York Times best-selling author, CEO of 3D Robotics, and founder of DIY Drones will...
Exelis Takes First Steps Toward Highway for Drones
Aerospace company Exelis provided a preview of its a low-altitude surveillance system to Reuters yesterday. The system will be fully integrated with the data on manned aircraft that Exelis currently supplies to FAA eliminating the concern for collision with commuter air traffic. With exclusive...
These Drones Make a Difference
Somewhere between military drones and paparazzi drones, people are finding uses for drones that improve the world and help noble causes. As UAS technology becomes more ubiquitous, use cases for conservation, search and rescue, and safety are appearing with increasing frequency. The Lindbergh...
InterDrone, CTIA Partner to Create Las Vegas Mega-Show
Super Mobility 2015 and InterDrone? to offer Direct Shuttle Service Linking Industry Events Both conferences held September 9-11 in Las Vegas; attend both shows, see latest/greatest synergistic technology advancing today's mobile landscape MELVILLE, N.Y., March 4, 2015 ? BZ Media LLC announced...
Google’s Internet Drones Set to Fly This Year
Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President at Google, announced at Mobile World Congress that the company's Internet relay drones will hold their initial test flights by the end of the year. Google acquired the drone company Titan Aerospace in April of 2014, and Pichai stated that Titan's drones are in...
K-State Salina Granted Statewide Airspace Access for UAS
Kansas State University Salina became the first entity to gain Federal Aviation Administration approval to fly unmanned aircraft systems statewide in research operations. The university received three certificates of authorization that allow it to conduct research using unmanned aircraft on all...
DOT and FAA propose new rules for small unmanned aircraft systems
The Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today's aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. The...