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...
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Inside the counter-drone boom of 2026, fueled by World Cup and some big corporate partnerships
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...
Is 2026 the year that U.S. drone delivery finally clears for takeoff?
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...
Ireland’s Manna Air Delivery chooses Tulsa for U.S. headquarters, promising 1,000 new drone jobs
The luck of the Irish is officially landing in the American heartland. Ireland-based Manna Air Delivery announced this week that it is launching its first full-scale metropolitan U.S. operations —...
For years, the commercial drone industry has chased a singular premise: a ruggedized, weatherproof shelter stationed on a roof or a utility site that automatically opens to launch an aircraft,...
Have a great drone use case? You could win a trip to Budapest
It’s 2026, and the drone industry is well past the era of asking if a drone can take a decent photo or stitch a basic orthomosaic map together. In the years ahead, the drone has been — and...