Global Spotlights
AI Festival unveils its 2027 theme: the challenge of the new AI era is to orchestrate the intelligence ecosystem
Bologna, Italy, September 28, 2026. Orchestrating Intelligence – Where Humans & AI play in Symphony is the theme of the fourth edition of AI Festival, the International Festival on Artificial...Read More
BAE Systems to deliver M‑Code GPS for U.S. Navy joint precision approach and landing system
DIGAR™ 500M enables assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) with anti‑jam protection for precision carrier landings CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — October 1 — BAE Systems has been awarded a $16 million contract...Read More
Europe’s Quantum Airspace: Scaling U-space, 4D Trajectories and Multimodal Mobility
Ask a controller working a summer weekend over the Alps what the hardest part of the job is, and the answer is rarely the weather. It’s the arithmetic. Every additional...Read More
Pentagon Plans Autonomous Warfare Command by 2027
The Department of War plans to establish a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command by Oct. 1, 2027, aiming to accelerate how the U.S. military buys, tests and fields unmanned and autonomous...Read More
Digital Force Technologies Awarded $500M IDIQ Contract from JIATF-401 to Deliver Advanced Counter-UAS Capabilities
DFT Full-Stack Mission Systems supporting force protection, base defense and counter-UAS operations SAN DIEGO, CA, September 29, 2026 — Digital Force Technologies (DFT), a defense technology company specializing in the development and...Read More
DroneShield Awarded JIATF-401 Domestic Shield IDIQ Contract
Three-year, $500 million contract vehicle supports accelerated deployment of counter-UAS capabilities for U.S. homeland defense Warrenton, VA – 30 September 2026 – DroneShield, a global leader in advanced counter-drone technology, today announced...Read More
World Space Week 2026 Celebrates the “Rocket Revolution”
HOUSTON, Texas (September 30, 2026)— World Space Week events, beginning October 4 in 100 nations, will celebrate how launch innovation has stimulated the rapidly-growing space economy and enabled new uses...Read More
Ondas Launches Dronebuster REACH, Extending Non-Kinetic Counter-UAS Defeat to Long Range
First system under contract to deliver to the Office of Naval Research following acceptance testing WEST PALM BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / September 30, 2026 / Ondas Inc. (Nasdaq:ONDS) (“Ondas” or the “Company”),...Read More
Tumbleweed and SIRIUS Space sign MoU to explore microgravity flights on Sirius S1 Ballistic
VIENNA, Austria – September 29, 2026 – Tumbleweed and the French rocket builder SIRIUS Space Services have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to examine flying Tumbleweed’s Pod payload containers...Read More
DronesQuad’s High-Level Product Safety Criteria: A Bet on Cross-Border UAS Certification
Most people in the drone industry have never heard of “DronesQuad” (DsQ), an unofficial coordination group, which has operated behind-the-scenes as a semi-formal, working level coordination channel among the “big...Read More