XTEND drones validate live-fire strikes with British Army as Trump-backed NYSE merger nears
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...
BETA Technologies completes historic 275-mile organ delivery flight under FAA’s new eIPP
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...
Matternet partners with Beeline in effort to expand U.S. drone delivery footprint
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...
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...
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...
