The FAA awarded $12 million for 19 drone research and test projects through its UAS BAA program. The projects by area, how the program works, and what is still unknown.
A sourced record of NIST PSCR's First Responder UAS Triple Challenge: who ran it, what the three challenges asked for, the $720K award pool, the FAQ rules and where results are.
Wing and Walmart plan drone delivery for Denver and Seattle in 2027. What is confirmed, where Colorado suburbs stand on drone hubs, the dates to watch and what is still unknown.
Explore the competition prize rounds held between 2021 and 2022 by NIST and Kansas State University, detailing public safety search & rescue flight challenges, sensor payloads, and counter-UAS evaluation standards.
How drones relay data for responders without cell service: aerial cell sites, local and mesh relays, store-and-forward, tethered or free-flying, and what limits each one.
What GPS jamming and spoofing do to a drone, how operators can detect them, which public safeguards reduce the risk, and why jamming a drone yourself is illegal in the U.S.
What optimizing a drone search and rescue flight actually changes, why forest canopy makes it hard, which levers help, and how to check a detection claim before relying on it.
