September 27, 2021
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah - Fortem Technologies, leaders in airspace security and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones, announced today that their DroneHunter® successfully defeated threat drones during a recent US Army test in Yuma Proving Ground, AZ. DroneHunter is an AI-enabled, radar-guided drone that locks onto its target, fires a net, captures the threatening drone
September 27, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Cepton, a Silicon Valley-based innovator of smart lidar solutions has teamed up with Lithuania-based system integrator Belam to improve road user and rail passenger safety by deploying lidar-enabled obstacle detection at railway level crossings. Following the installation of Cepton’s Helius® Smart Lidar System at a busy railway intersection in Europe, the lidar-based solution has monitored
September 24, 2021
DENVER — The “Airport Response to Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Threats” guidebook has been published by the National Safe Skies Alliance through its Program for Applied Research in Airport Security (PARAS). PARAS is funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and modeled after the Airport Cooperative Research Program of the Transportation Research Board. The guidebook was created
September 24, 2021
ABU DHABI, UAE - Today, Matternet announced a city-wide drone delivery network for the rapid transport of medical goods in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) and logistics company Skygo. The network will significantly increase the connectivity of the Emirate's health ecosystem and position it as a global leader in advanced air
September 24, 2021
Los Angeles, CA. - Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) (CSE: DPRO) (FSE: 3U8) (“Draganfly” or the “Company”), an award-winning, industry-leading drone solutions and systems developer, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive manufacturing agreement with Valqari LLC (“Vaqari”) to produce Valqari’s Drone Delivery Stations. Valqari is focused on solving the “last inch”
September 24, 2021
HERNDON, Va.- Geospark Analytics, a world class leader in applied artificial intelligence solutions for risk and threat assessment, has been awarded a new four-year contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Over the last few years, Geospark Analytics' AI-driven risk platform Hyperion helped FEMA's teams be proactive in times of disaster and relief to provide support and
September 24, 2021
HOUSTON - UAS (unmanned aerial systems) service providers Soaring Eagle Imaging (SEI) from Brandon, Mississippi and Skynetwest from Chandler, Arizona, today announced a definitive agreement to become a leading drone data collection and processing company with the creation of Soaring Eagle Technologies (Soaring Eagle). The company, owned and operated by Houston-based Iapetus Holdings LLC (Iapetus), will lead the charge in markets such
September 24, 2021
ARLINGTON, Va.- EarthOptics has closed its Series A investment round, raising an additional $10.3 million in funding. This funding will enable further growth and expansion across more farmland of its patent-pending soil mapping and machine learning technologies. Lead investor Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer, is joined in this Series by new investors S2G Ventures and previous
September 24, 2021
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) has been selected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for a multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with a ceiling of $850 million. The Geospatial Product and Services Contract (GPSC 4) is a successor to the GPSC 3 contract that Sanborn was previously awarded. The Geospatial Product and Services
September 24, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced a multi-year agreement to provide its lidar sensors to TOPODRONE, which is based in Switzerland and develops affordable, high-precision solutions for aerial surveys. Using Velodyne lidar sensors has enabled TOPODRONE to bring high-precision mapping and 3D modeling to demanding environments including farms, forests, infrastructure and more to
