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The Drone Center Weekly Roundup
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/19/16
September 12, 2016 – September 18, 2016
News
A U.S. airstrike in Syria reportedly killed Wael Adel Salman, the information minister for the Islamic State group. According to a U.S. official wh...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/12/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We are a decade into what is often described as “the drone revolution,” a period of remarkable growth in the development, proliferation, and use of mili...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/5/16
August 29, 2016 – September 4, 2016
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A U.S. airstrike in Syria killed Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior strategist and spokesperson for the Islamic State. According to two U.S. officials w...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/29/16
August 22, 2016 – August 28, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda. According to witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press, the strike t...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/22/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As growing numbers of countries around the world acquire and deploy military drones, the task of tracking where they are based and how they are being used b...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/15/16
August 8, 2016 – August 14, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Earlier this month, hundreds of drones descended upon New York’s Governors Island for the second annual U.S. Nationa...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/8/16
News
A U.S. airstrike in Yemen killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In a statement, U.S. Central Command announced that the strike took place in Yemen’s central Shabwa provi...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/1/16
July 25, 2016 – July 31, 2016
News
The U.S. Air Force has created a new training course for officers responsible for ensuring that the communications between drones and pilots are secure. The Elec...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/25/16
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A federal judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration has the authority to require Austin and Bret Haughwout to turn over documents relating to two homemade drones. In 2015, the Haugh...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/18/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
A cache of personal documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011 includes several letters that refer to the drones used by the U...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Growing numbers of robots are being transferred from the U.S. Department of Defense to domestic law enforcement agencies. We have conducted an in-depth anal...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/4/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria is the first major war in which drones have been used extensively to create aerial videos of events on the ground, pr...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have passed competing drafts of the National Defense Authorization Act, which establishes funding prioritie...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/13/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Unmanned technology is becoming an increasingly hot commodity on the global market; it is no surprise, then, that the last few years have seen a spate of ca...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/6/16
5/30/16 – 6/5/16
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted Abdullahi Haji Da’ud, a senior member of al-Shabab. In a statement, spokesperson Peter Cook said that the Pentagon is still eval...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/30/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As more commercial drone users take to the sky, insurers are struggling to develop policies to cover the eventualities of flying. Meanwhile, insurance compa...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/23/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Are drones a revolutionary technology? What exactly do we mean when we say “the drone revolution”? This semester at Bard College, the Center taught an u...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/16/16
5/9/16 – 5/15/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Companies that offer a range of end-to-end drone services are becoming increasingly significant players in the domestic drone industry...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/9/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On May 7, the Academy of Model Aeronautics celebrated National Drone Day with events that brought together hobbyists across the country. We were on-site for...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/28/16
3/21/16 – 3/27/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On Friday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration released 582 new reports of incidents involving drones in the national airsp...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/21/16
3/14/16 – 3/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In our new report, “Analysis of U.S. Drone Exemptions 2014-2015,” we studied 2,700 FAA permits for non-recreational drone use to ...
Report: Analysis of U.S. drone exemptions 2014-2015
The Centre for the Study of the Drone has released a new report on the state of the growing commercial drone industry....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/14/16
3/7/16 – 3/13/16
News
A major U.S. airstrike in Somalia reportedly killed at least 150 al-Shabab fighters. The strike, which was carried out by manned and unmanned aircraft, targeted a compoun...
The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 3/7/16
2/29/16 – 3/6/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Iran has one of the most extensive military drone programs in the world. We’ve uncovered new evidence that the program’s capabilit...
