Drone Focus

Elena Parrello, a fifth year senior studying unmanned aircraft engineering at University of North Dakota, is determined that there is a better way to inspect sewers. Rather than sending people…

Local graphic designer Adam Wiedman has left his role as creative director at Botlink to launch his own design company. The announcement came yesterday, with the launch of  a Wiedman Design…

Originally published in Droning On: A North Dakota UAS news blog. Written by Brandi Jewett. A Michigan company developing detect and avoid software for unmanned aircraft systems has received backing…

After years of waiting for guidelines from the Federal Aviation Administration, the drone industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as part one of those guidelines was released this week.…

Size can be deceiving. A small silicon cell the size of a quarter can now hold enough solar power to support nearly three times the power to weight ratio of…

Out of five students teams who competed at yesterday’s Drone Focus Conference, a team of three from University of Nevada – Las Vegas took home first place with a design…

Rear Admiral Stuart Munsch has served our country from a variety of positions, both in the Pentagon and at sea. So, when he took the stage at Drone Focus 2016,…

Drone Focus was a day-long celebration of innovation in the UAS industry; for speaker Baptiste Tripard, it was also a day of personal celebration. “I actually realized backstage that it’s…

Decades ago, before he was director of safety and analytics for Union Pacific Railroad, a young Ed Adelman first started working for the railroad. He tells this story from the…

Lauren Smith grew up listening to stories of her grandfather, who served as a pilot in World War II; these stories later inspired her to pursue a career in aeronautics. Today she is a Concept…