Public Safety, Emergency, First Response News & Articles

Maritime Surveillance UAV Adds New SAR Capability

Under a new contract from the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), CLS and TEKEVER have added a new device to...

Oct 21, 2021
$25 Million Funding Raised for First Responder Drones

BRINC, an American technology company building a new class of drones in response to the mass shooting at The Mandalay...

Oct 19, 2021
BVLOS Drone Testing at Cranfield University

Plymouth Rock Technologies (PRT) has provided custom drones and training services to Cranfield University for beyond visual line of sight...

Oct 01, 2021
Drone Countermeasure Exercise Conducted by INTERPOL

INTERPOL and the Norwegian Police have carried out a three-day exercise to evaluate and test drone countermeasures in a secure...

Oct 01, 2021
Elistair Tethered Drone Provides Concert Security

Elistair’s Orion 2 UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) has been deployed at the University of Montana’s Washington Grizzly Stadium to provide...

Sep 21, 2021
Autonomous UGV Developed for Critical Missions

The Aardvark Group has launched RANG-R (Remote Autonomous Next Generation-Rover), a multi-mission autonomous UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) designed to be...

Sep 15, 2021
Maritime Patrol UAS Adds Life-Raft Deployment Capability

Tekever has upgraded the maritime patrol version of its AR5 UAS (unmanned aerial system) with the ability to precision-drop eight-person...

Sep 14, 2021
Drone-Based Intelligence Collection for Defense & Disaster Recovery

Hexagon US Federal has partnered with senseFly and Tough Stump Technologies to develop ARTEMIS (Aerial Reconnaissance Tactical Edge Mapping Imagery...

Sep 05, 2021
StreamCaster Radios Expand the Capabilities of VTOL UAS

Silvus Technologies’ StreamCaster radios have been used by Swift Tactical Systems to enhance the performance of its Swift021 VTOL unmanned...

Aug 26, 2021
Sustainment Support for NATO’s Fleet of Surveillance UAV

Northrop Grumman Corporation will provide operations, maintenance and lifecycle sustainment of NATO’s fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), air vehicle...

Aug 25, 2021
Drone Remote Identification Service Launched in Switzerland

A nationwide voluntary Network Remote Identification (NET-RID) service for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has been launched across Switzerland by a...

Aug 22, 2021
MissionGO Wins Award for Longest UAS Human Organ Delivery Flight

MissionGO has won an XCELLENCE Award at the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) XPONENTIAL 2021 in Atlanta. The...

Aug 19, 2021
Emergency Management Exercise Tests UAS Capabilities

Sunhillo has confirmed that it has participated in an emergency management exercise in New Jersey with unmanned aerial systems (UAS),...

Aug 18, 2021
New L-Band Network for IoT, Safety and Mission Critical Connectivity

Inmarsat has released details of a new global narrowband network designed for the rapidly evolving world of the Internet of...

Aug 17, 2021
Landmine Detection with Drones

Iris Automation has released the following article explaining how UAS (unmanned aerial systems) are being used to detect landmines and...

Aug 02, 2021
New Hybrid VTOL UAV for Surveillance & Defense Launched

UAV Works has launched the VALAQ Patrol, a new tactical drone for surveillance and defence applications that is based around...

Jul 20, 2021
Sonar-Equipped USVs Demonstrated on River Thames

Hydronalix has provided training and demonstrations with its Sonar EMILY USV (unmanned surface vehicle) to various entities responsible for civil...

Jun 17, 2021
Armed USV Completes Missile Firing Tests

Meteksan Defence has successfully completed missile firing tests with its ULAQ armed USV (unmanned surface vehicle), which has been developed...

Jun 08, 2021
World’s Smallest & Lightest MicroLiDAR Launched

LightWare LiDAR has launched the SF45 microLiDAR, the world’s smallest, lightest, scanning LiDAR sensor. The new sensor provides UAVs (unmanned...

Jun 08, 2021
Robotic Skies to Provide Maintenance for Humanitarian & Medical Drones

Robotic Skies has partnered with Dutch UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) manufacturer Avy – Drones for Good to develop a field...

May 20, 2021
CAMCOPTER UAS Provides Maritime Surveillance in Baltic Sea

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (unmanned aerial system) is being used by the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) for...

Apr 22, 2021
Commercial Heavy-Lift Unmanned Helicopter Tested

Kaman Air Vehicles has performed a successful first flight with the company’s new unmanned helicopter, the K-MAX TITAN. According to...

Apr 22, 2021
Japan’s Global Hawk UAS Completes First Flight

Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the first flight of Japan’s RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) from Palmdale, California....

Apr 19, 2021
Automated Drone Fleet Solution Launched

Parrot has partnered with UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) technology provider High Lander to provide a new all-in-one professional automated drone...

Apr 14, 2021
CAMCOPTER UAS Performs Maritime Surveillance for Romanian Border Police

Schiebel’s Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) CAMCOPTER S-100 UAS (unmanned aerial system) has been used by the Romanian Border Police...

Apr 09, 2021
Black Eagle UAS Upgraded for Military & Security Missions

Steadicopter has begun expanding the range of applications that can be undertaken by its Black Eagle family of helicopter UAS...

Apr 07, 2021
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.