The Applied Aviation Research Center on Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus is continuing its work with PrecisionHawk, a provider of advanced commercial drone technologies, on operational testing with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). This...

A study released Monday by the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission estimates the aviation and aerospace industry is now the second-largest sector of Oklahoma's economy, generating an annual economic impact of about $43.8 billion.

Jim Ballard had hopes for Blue Chip UAS, an area drone service company that the former EagleMed owner is a key investor in. Formed in 2014 by a group of young military veterans with extensive backgrounds in unmanned aircraft, Blue Chip aimed to...

Under a new collaboration between AirMap and the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), unmanned traffic management (UTM) technology will be deployed across the state of Kansas. According to the partners, the initiative, which is the first of...

As one of the keynote speakers for the UAS Tech Forum August 30-31 in Wichita, Kansas, JD Claridge, co-founder of xCraft, will share his thoughts on the present state of the UAS industry and where he thinks it is heading, and how an appearance two...

The University of Tulsa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will host an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) competition on the TU campus. UAV systems are effective in recruiting middle and high school students to fields related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The industrial applications of UAV systems continue to expand, and TU is home to innovative UAV research.

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Thought leaders, industry experts and end-users will gather at Drone World Expo in the heart of Silicon Valley to present real-world solutions to your business and environmental challenges. UAS/UAVs provide the capability for you to capture data in...

The Multimodal Autonomous Drone (S-MAD) is a fixed-wing drone that has a few bird-like tricks up its sleeve. You can, for example, fly it like a glider through a room or open space, but when it approaches a flat surface the drone quickly changes configuration and lands flat with its little spiky teeth digging in to keep it from falling.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced today the launch of its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative(UASSC) with a kick-off meeting scheduled for September 28 in Washington, DC. The UASSC's mission will be to coordinate and accelerate the development of the standards and conformity assessment programs needed to facilitate the safe, mass integration of unmanned aircraft systems – commonly known as drones – into the national airspace system of the United States.

More than three years since Ohio was snubbed in a bid for a coveted federally designated drone test site, officials have targeted a renewed push to make the region a leading hot spot to test and build future unmanned aerial technology. Advocates want Ohio to be the test site of "Jetsons-like" personal air vehicles by 2022. They also want a stake in the development of package delivery drones and a bigger role in resolving technical obstacles to bring drones more fully into civilian air space. But the attempt to grow the drone industry in Ohio has been hampered, some say, by critical technologies needed to integrate the unmanned machines into the skies.

Robotic Skies LLC, a provider of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) maintenance around the globe, has raised a round of venture capital financing. The investment round was led by Kickstart Seed Fund of Salt Lake City and included participation by Sun Mountain Capital of Santa Fe, N.M.

Drones are reaching new heights and distant lands, according to researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Together for the first time, a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system (UAS) were able to determine Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than previous attempts.

The state of North Dakota has invested $17 million of public money into infrastructure at Grand Sky technology park at Grand Forks Air Force Base in the hopes of attracting high-paying jobs and industry to the region. After years of investment, leaders say jobs are starting to come.

Artificial Intelligence gets smarter with data. Today, some of the most underutilized sources of data comes from surveillance videos and aerial data captured from small size drones.  From surveillance and security to construction projects and airport movement tracking, drones are taking this trained data up in the air to perform specialized inspections.

Atilla Dogan, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, will use a $550,000 National Science Foundation grant to quantify risks posed by unmanned aerial vehicles, then create algorithms to reduce those risks while the vehicles perform specific tasks.

National insurance organizations have a stake in proposed congressional legislation regulating the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and commercial drones — both as users of the emerging technology and as providers of liability coverage.

The Pentagon is establishing no-fly zones for drones over U.S. military bases, and threatening to back it up with lethal force. Under new guidance issued by the Pentagon August 4, small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as "drones" that violate airspace near U.S. military installations are subject to shoot-down

While it is increasingly implementing 3D printing technology into production of its large-scale jets and ships, the U.S Navy has also been furthering its advances into drone technology, and the latest breakthrough is a surveillance drone known as CICADA (Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft).

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts to three industry teams to develop methods to counter small unmanned aircraft systems.

A pair of Rhode Island Democrats rolled out legislation August 4 that, if passed, would regulate drone use more tightly, with the intention of protecting manned aircraft.

The Federal Aviation Administration's Part 107 waiver process for the operation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS or drones) in certain restricted airspace or beyond the limitations of the Part 107 UAS regulations, was originally designed to streamline approval. However, for many drone operators who have had their Part 107 waivers denied, the process can often be mysterious and frustrating.