The FAA awarded $12 million to 19 companies and organizations through its UAS Broad Agency Announcement Program, funding real-world testing of detect-and-avoid, long-range communications, cargo and identity verification.
Versaterm integrated Aloft's FAA airspace authorization into DroneSense, letting police drone teams secure LAANC approvals near airports without switching apps or manual FAA coordination.
A snapshot reported as at 30 June 2026: planned remediation, assessment-pending works and historical totals describe different groups and stages.
The Regulator of Social Housing has released its Q1 2026/27 survey on fire safety in social housing buildings over 11 metres in England, revealing that 2,078 of 17,258 relevant buildings have life-critical fire safety defects in external wall systems, with 76.7% expected to be remediated within five years.
Why Britain keeps frightening away the future it says it wants — and how a nervous country talked itself out of a generation of engineers.
Here is a question no British executive expected to be asking in 2026 — if Washington can switch off our AI on a Friday evening, should we be running Chinese open-source models on our own servers instead? Uncomfortable question. After last week, a serious one.
On 20 May 2026, the Law Commission published 38 recommendations mapping a legal path to beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone flight. Nobody noticed. Every serious operator should.
Why the probability of dying from a piece of masonry falling on your head in a British city is higher in 2026 than it was in 1976 — and why the construction industry is responsible.
England has roughly 12,500 higher-risk buildings that need facade safety evidence under the Building Safety Act — and the industry's default inspection method is a trained ear and a hammer that can only ever reach one tile at a time.