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Steadicopter’s Golden Eagle Emerges as Rotary UAV Mothership for Contested ISR and Precision Strike Missions
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global — Ambassador for Israel Israeli company Steadicopter has unveiled a mothership variant of its Golden Eagle rotary UAV It engineered the platform to serve as...Read More
The Old Guard Must Reinvent: The Space Economy Rewrites the Rules of Business
By: Dawn Zoldi While typical hardware and hardware-adjacent technologies occupied much of the 2026 Space Symposium focus, John May, Space Leader and Partner at PwC, approached the space economy through...Read More
IonQ Launches Commercial InSAR Capability, Enabling Automated, Millimeter-Scale Earth Monitoring
COLLEGE PARK, MD — May 4, 2026 — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantumtechnology company, today announced the commercial launch of Interferometric SyntheticAperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities through its space...Read More
Second Gen 6 Aircraft Accelerates Wisk’s Flight Test Program
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – May 4, 2026 – Wisk Aero, an autonomous aviation company, today announced the successful first flight of its second Generation 6 aircraft. This milestone is a...Read More
U.S. Army Awards Contract for Elbit Systems’ THOR Group 2 UAS Through Mistral Inc. Partnership
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global — Ambassador for Israel Israeli defense company Elbit Systems will supply its THOR Group 2 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to the U.S. Army through a...Read More
Axon Vision EDGE ClearSky Passes Operational Evaluation Against FPV Drone Threats
Israeli defense tech company Axon Vision has completed a successful operational demonstration and evaluation of its EDGE ClearSky drone detection system. This marks a significant milestone in the platform’s path...Read More
Elbit Systems’ AI-Enhanced Watchkeeper XR Drives European UAS Demand, New Romania Facility Opens
By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global — Ambassador for Israel The AI-enhanced capabilities of the Elbit Systems Watchkeeper XR unmanned aerial system (UAS) have directly influenced demand for the platform across...Read More
Teledyne FLIR Defense Grows Third-Party Payload Integration Program, Adds Emesent Hovermap LiDAR for Unmanned Air, Ground, and Detection Platforms
QUANTICO, VA, April 28, 2026 — Unveiled at Modern Day Marine 2026, Teledyne FLIR Defense announced the expansion of its Third-Party Payload Integration Program with the certification of Emesent’s Hovermap LiDAR Payload. The agreement will deliver Emesent’s GPS-denied...Read More
Near Earth Autonomy Awarded Program to Prototype Autonomous Logistics Aircraft for U.S. Marine Corps
Pittsburgh, PA, [April 28, 2026] / Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Near Earth Autonomy (Near Earth) the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) Increment 2 program, to...Read More
UAS Magazine Announces 2026 UAS Summit & Expo Dates and Call for Abstracts
Produced by UAS Magazine, the UAS Summit will provide a comprehensive overview of the unmanned aircraft systems industry while celebrating two decades of leadership in UAS development, deployment and technology. Grand...Read More
