Independent coverage of drone tracking, unmanned traffic management, and counter-UAS defense - including a continuously maintained tracker on the FAA's Part 108 rulemaking.
The FAA's final BVLOS rule has been under OIRA review since July 10, 2026. It has not been published. Case-by-case waivers and Section 44807 exemptions remain the only route to BVLOS operations.
Last verified: July 29, 2026
Full timeline and analysis ->The latest from the Executive Briefings.
July 2026
A continuously updated tracker on the status of FAA Part 108, the rule that will allow routine Beyond Visual Line of Sight drone operations. Current stage, timeline history, and what happens next.
July 2026
Fragmented drone operations do not scale. The endgame is global drone management, a single authoritative view of every machine in the sky. Here is why the whole industry converges on one pane of glass.
July 2026
Directed-energy weapons promise to fix the broken cost math of counter-drone defense, dollars per shot instead of hundreds of thousands. Here is why the laser is only as good as the software that aims it.
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