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DHS Tested DJI Against Blue UAS and Hid the Scores. Why Weren't We Told?

I think we just learned something pretty important about the whole DJI situation here in the United States. And depending on how you look at it, it might raise even more questions about how much...

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North Myrtle Beach Amazon Drone Vote: Staff Ask Oct. 20, Forum Oct. 7

North Myrtle Beach’s planning staff are asking the Planning Commission to put off Amazon’s drone launch pad a second time, to October 20, and the staff report posted Friday afternoon says a public...

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Utah Rescue Captain Tells DC the FCC Drone Ban Will Cost Lives

Captain Kyle Nordfors, the drone coordinator for Weber County Search and Rescue in Utah, has taken his fight against the Federal Communications Commission’s “military-grade” drone proposal to...

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Amazon Asks Westborough to Delay Drone Pad Vote as Board Says No

Amazon has asked Westborough’s Planning Board to push the hearing on its Prime Air drone launch pad from October 6 to November 10, according to the board’s revised agenda on the town website. The...

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Castle Rock Froze Walmart's Drone Hub 7-0. Its Clock Runs Out Jan 21

Castle Rock, Colorado, needed one meeting to stop Walmart’s drone delivery hub. On July 21, 2026, the Town Council adopted Ordinance No. 2026-023 on first and final reading, 7 to 0, under an emergency...

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DSPA Calls Congress Over Blue UAS Report as 15 States Sue FAA and Skydio...

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. DSPA asks Congress to look at the Blue UAS report. We have 15 states that are suing the FAA over drone delivery. We have...

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Hegseth Orders Four-Star Drone Command, Congress Has To Build It

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the creation of a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command on September 30, 2026, telling 600 O-3 officers and E-6 noncommissioned officers at Marine Corps Base...

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Amazon Already Raised Its Texas Drones. 'Drone Warriors' Want Higher

A group of Richardson, Texas homeowners calling themselves the “Drone Warriors” told NBC’s TODAY last week that they want Amazon Prime Air to fly its drones higher over their neighborhood....

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DHS Left DJI's Scores Out of Its Blue UAS Report. Here They Are

The Department of Homeland Security’s test lab scored the DJI Matrice 4T at 4.6 out of 5 and the DJI Matrice 30T at 4.3 when it flew them at Hudson Yards in July 2025, against 3.7 for the Skydio X10D...

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Hillsborough Blood Drones Launch in October, Flown From Sarasota

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue starts flying whole blood to trauma scenes by drone in October. County commissioners approved the program on September 2, and Fire Rescue demonstrated it for reporters...

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Neros Wins $100M Pentagon Order, Plus 800 Drones Rivals Didn't Deliver

Neros Technologies announced on Wednesday, September 30, that the Department of War has ordered 14,000 drones and explosive payloads from it through Gauntlet II of the Drone Dominance Program, an award...

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Amprius Gets $75M Pentagon Drone Battery Grant, Mostly Unfunded

Amprius Technologies will convert an American electric vehicle battery line into a drone cell factory with a Department of War grant of up to $75 million, the Fremont, California company announced on...

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DJI Avata 360 Can't Fly Acro. An FPV Pilot Still Calls It Enough

FPV pilot Kai Vertigoh, whose YouTube channel has 260,000 subscribers, published a test of the DJI Avata 360 on September 28 arguing that the 455-gram 360-degree drone can replace several drones for...

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DoorDash Air Drone Lands Chipotle and Popeyes, but No Payload Number

DoorDash unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air on Wednesday at Dash Forward, its annual product event. The drone flies on six slow-spinning propellers and lowers orders to the ground on a winch....

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Tallahassee Commissioner Urged Amazon Drone Rules. Florida Law Says No

Tallahassee City Commissioner Dianne Williams-Cox was asked at a September 28 candidate forum whether Amazon Prime Air’s planned drone delivery service should be regulated. “So, absolutely, it needs to...

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Pentagon Opens $450M Attack-Drone Round With A 400-Drone Deadline

The Department of War opened Phase 3 of the Drone Dominance Program on Monday, September 28, with $450 million for roughly 60,000 attack drones and an option to buy up to 40,000 more. Companies compete...

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Amazon Drone Hub Faces Pause Call From Lawmakers as State Sues FAA

Three Massachusetts state lawmakers have asked Amazon to pause its proposed Prime Air drone delivery hub in Westborough until the company answers residents on operating hours, flight paths, service...

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Lodi NJ Drone Ban Is Preempted, Judge Rules, But Pilot Gets No Order

A federal judge in Newark held on September 24 that the Borough of Lodi, New Jersey cannot enforce its 2025 drone ordinance, which bans drones below 400 feet across the whole town, because the Federal...

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FAA Sued by 15 States Over Drone Delivery Clearance Amazon Runs On

Fifteen states and Harris County, Texas sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, September 28, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to throw out the agency’s nationwide...

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Matternet M3 Drone Lifts 11 Pounds, Has No FAA Certificate Yet

Matternet unveiled M3 on Monday, a delivery drone that carries up to 11 pounds (5 kg) within a 10-mile (16 km) radius and flies from a rooftop dock with nobody on site. The Mountain View company named...

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