If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone As the drone industry grows and becomes more complex, it is both more important and more difficult than ever to keep track …
Need to Know provides context and resources to help you get a better understanding of recent developments in the world of drones. By Dan Gettinger, @GettDan Earlier this week, the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent U.S. government agency responsible for investigating major accidents and incidents, remanded the case of Raphael …
Richard Whittle knows a great deal about the Predator. Not the 1987 movie; rather, the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator surveillance and strike drone, which Whittle contends started the drone revolution. Indeed, the Predator’s distinctive profile has become a symbol for drones in general: ask the average person what a drone …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone South Korea wants its citizens to keep an eye on the sky for North Korean drones. We obtained exclusive photos of “Wanted: …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone In an in-depth conversation with Arthur Holland Michel, High & Low Bureau discusses surveillance as a tool of power, how artists and …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed that an Israeli drone crashed in southern Lebanon, near the border town of Marjayoun. The drone, a Skylark reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft, …
By Dan Gettinger Like many public safety departments across the country, the St. Louis County Police Department owns a robot. It is a small, unmanned ground vehicle that is used for bomb disposal. It was acquired through the Department of Defense 1033 Program that transfers used military equipment to local …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The FBI’s secretive domestic drone program has been on a budgetary roller coaster in the past few years. Shawn Musgrave takes a …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of former Department of Justice official David Barron to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Barron’s appointment …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The April issue of Harper’s Magazine featured a 16-page folio of drone-captured photos by dutch photographer Tomas van Houtryve. “Blue Sky …
By Dan Gettinger On April 2, 2014, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez opened fire on his colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing three people before turning the gun on himself. The mass shooting, the second at Fort Hood in the past five years, focused attention nationwide on the difficulties that U.S. …
