Dedrone, a supplier of smart airspace security systems, announced that it has closed a $30.5 million Series C financing round led by Axon, the global leader in connected public safety technologies. Continue reading
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Airobotics and ShotSpotter Partner to Offer Integrated Gunshot Detection and Real-time Aerial Video
Airobotics, an Israeli manufacturer of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and aerial data systems, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with the American company ShotSpotter to sell and deploy its gunshot detection technology in Israel. Continue reading
MARSS and Thales Collaborate to Protect Infrastructures Against UAS
MARSS has announced a collaboration with Thales for the delivery of system solutions to provide protection of critical infrastructures against multiple threats. Continue reading
US Treasury Identifies Eight Chinese Tech Firms as Part of The Chinese Military-Industrial Complex
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on December 16th. identified eight Chinese technology firms pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13959, as amended by E.O. 14032. These eight entities actively support the biometric surveillance and tracking of ethnic and religious minorities in China, particularly the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. Continue reading
Wingcopter Gets Investment from Latin-America
German drone delivery pioneer Wingcopter has secured its next investment. The capital influx comes from SYNERJET Corp, a leading business aviation specialist in Latin America, with operations in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama, and Guatemala. Continue reading
Indian Start-Up Johnnette Technologies Raises Nearly $1M Pre-Series A Round
Lt-Cdr John Livingstone, CEO Johnnette Technologies with Rajiv Vermani, Director and CEO Digital and Automation Hardcastle Petrofer
Johnnette Technologies, a successful bootstrapped Indian UAV manufacturer, has raised close to a Million dollars from Hardcastle Petrofer as it looks to scale up its UAV manufacturing and Drone pilot training business. Continue reading
Leidos Gets $82M US Air Force C-UAS Contract
Leidos, a FORTUNE 500 science and technology company, announced that it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Air Force to support the service’s counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-sUAS) efforts. Continue reading
Global Hawk to Expand Participation in SkyRange Program
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been issued a task order to support the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) to begin engineering and planning work to reconfigure four United States Air Force EQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk aircraft for use in the SkyRange fleet of testing vehicles. Continue reading