12/14/15 -12/20/2015 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 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military’s future-making technology organization, is playing a crucial role in the development …
By Dan Gettinger On Monday, December 14, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work outlined the pillars of the “third offset strategy,” a plan to develop the technologies that will maintain the American military’s technological superiority. Speaking at the Center for New American Security’s National Security Forum, Work argued that …
By Arthur Holland Michel and Dan Gettinger In a video released on Sunday, Amazon previewed its delivery drone prototype. The two-minute teaser features a drone that can take-off like a helicopter and fly like a fixed-wing airplane, giving it greater range and the ability to potentially land right on your …
For an update on underwater drones, click here. By Dan Gettinger Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April. “The change to the organization …
10/19/15 – 10/25/15 If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. A Message from the Center for the Study of the Drone The Center for the Study of the Drone was founded in 2012 to create original, inquiry-driven content …
10/12/15 – 10/18/15 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 While drones and targeted killing have received almost no attention so far in the presidential elections, it is an …
For proposed spending on the MQ-9 Reaper and other unmanned systems in Fiscal Year 2017, click here. For our Defense Spending on Drones project, click here. By Dan Gettinger The MQ-9 Reaper is a medium-altitude long-endurance surveillance and strike drone. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., the primary contractor for the …
By Dan Gettinger On August 21, 2015, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, two British citizens who had traveled to Syria to fight with ISIL, were killed in a British drone strike while traveling in a vehicle outside of Raqqa, Syria. According to the British government, the strike was necessary to …
9/14/15 – 9/20/15 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 Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a drone bill that, if enacted, would have placed greater restrictions …
By Dan Gettinger On August 28, 2013, an MQ-1 Predator drone took off from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California and headed north. The Predator’s mission was to provide aerial imagery to support almost 4,000 firefighters battling the Rim Fire, which by then had burned 160,000 acres and was …
8/17/15 – 8/23/15 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 On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a database of over 600 incidents in which drones interfered with the …
7/27/15 – 8/2/15 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 While drones have received the lion’s share of attention among the U.S. tools in the War on Terror, Special …
