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The future of military unmanned aircraft systems will depend on more than the capabilities of any single drone, payload or software platform. Increasingly, it will depend on whether those technologies can work together. That is the problem the MAVLink-Military (MAVLink-M) working group is working to solve. Led through the Dronecode Foundation, MAVLink-M is an open extension of the MAVLink protocol designed to address the growing requirements of military and government uncrewe

IS4S and Applied Aeronautics were proud to work alongside 13 companies at the MAVLink-Military Integration Hackathon, hosted by the Dronecode Foundation and Auterion at Auterion’s facility in Virginia in July 2026. This three-day event consisted of two days collaborating, debating, building, and hacking before culminating in a third day of field demonstrations. Ultimately the teams produced seven working integrations using MAVLink-Military as the communications platform. Ab

If you’re working in or watching the drone industry, you’ve likely heard the acronym BVLOS again and again. Short for Beyond Visual Line...

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In recent decades, drones have emerged as a game-changing technology in various fields, one of which is military reconnaissance. These...

Operating a drone beyond the pilot's visual line of sight (BVLOS) presents a set of challenges that are distinct from those faced during...