Drones

• [New] As Congress debates the American Jobs plan, there is a new opportunity to invest in the future of infrastructure: not only in the structures themselves but also in modernizing the processes that maintain them. / Commercial UAV News
• [New] Once fully realized, a functioning drone transportation infrastructure will help improve quality of life in rural areas across Japan. / DRONELIFE
• [New] Turkey's cooperation with Ukraine did not mean it was taking a stand directly in opposition to other countries, even though Ukraine considers Turkey the only other nation (after the United States) to offer direct aid versus the month-old Russian invasion threat. / Strategy Page
• [New] The successes of the initial drone usage in Chinese rice paddies are capturing the attention of other global farmers and creating new opportunities for Bayer to enable growers to use drones to enahnce ag processes around the world. / Global Citizen
• We need to ensure that drones can continue to advance and bring new opportunities, jobs and services to cities and states across the U.S. / iHLS
• The U.S. and Israel will establish an inter-agency working group on the growing threat of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAVs] and Precision Guided Missiles produced by Iran and provided to its proxies in the Middle East Region. / Forbes
• Amazon has been working on its drone delivery service since 2013, and pledges that it will be able to fly packages weighing up to 5 lb as far as 15 miles in the coming years. / The Times
• Once fully realised, a functioning drone transportation infrastructure will help improve quality of life in rural areas across Japan. / Mobihealthnews
• Companies in the U.S. seeking to store training data or use the processing power of cloud services to develop or host AI applications could see their access to China-based or China company-owned or controlled cloud service providers now subject to Department of Commerce licensing. / Gibson Dunn
• Getting drones and other aircraft into Afghanistan to provide overhead surveillance or to conduct counterterrorism strikes will take considerably longer and will require far more aircraft. / AP News
• The Saudis need Iran to convince the Houthis to end a war they are winning and in which Saudi cities are under continuous threat of missile and drone attacks. / Brookings
• The Houthi campaign exposed the vulnerability of the Saudi strategic infrastructure to asymmetric attacks launched through drones, missiles and explosives-laden boats targeting oil facilities, airports, commercial vessels and ports. / Fair Observer
• Chinese group-buying platform Meituan plans to use the raised funds for technological innovation, including the development of automated delivery vehicles, drone delivery and other cutting-edge technologies, as well as general corporate purposes. / China Money Network
• U.S. intelligence gathering would inevitably decline without American personnel on the ground and drones inside the country able to convey information about potential threats quickly. / NBC News
• The unmanned systems taking part will include General Atomics MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and the experimental Leidos Sea Hunter and Sea Hawk Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vessels, and small and medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicles with modular payloads. / Armada International
• In addition to the destroyer USS Michael Monsoor, the US Pacific Fleet exercise will see Medium USVs such as the Sea Hunter and Sea Hawk, and UAVs including the MQ-8B Fire Scout and the MQ-9 Sea Guardian performing a range of integrated tasks. / The Defense Post
• China's Meituan is raising nearly $10 billion from investors, hoping it will be able to gain an edge on its e-commerce rivals by spending heavily on technology allowing it to deliver goods using drones and self-driving cars. / WSJ
• Now the FAA is implementing a new rule section, Part 89, which will create a regulatory environment wherein drone operations can be fully integrated into U.S. airspace and enable greater commercial operational capabilities of drones, while promoting safety and security. / DRONELIFE
• High-altitude helicopters on Earth could benefit - imagine choppers easily navigating the Himalayas. / CBC
• If Beijing has UUVs that can find and manipulate seafloor objects, it could tap into or sever Taiwanese cables in order to exert economic pressure, create a contested information environment (as Russia did in Crimea) or even prevent foreign drones from operating over the South China Sea. / The Maritime Executive
• The dramatic growth of small unmanned aircraft systems, commonly called drones, creates new threats and challenges for NATO countries including the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Canada's Department of National Defence. / Investing News Network

Last updated: 09 May 2021