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AI, Autonomous Systems and Next-Generation Threat Detection Are Reshaping Modern Defense

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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AINewsWire Editorial Coverage: A new category of infrastructure is emerging around a problem that autonomous drone systems can no longer treat as occasional: knowing where they are when satellite navigation cannot be trusted. Rather than adding sensors, chips or software to every aircraft, this innovative approach delivers position as a service from the cloud, with nothing installed on the drone itself. It treats GPS denial as a permanent condition of modern operating environments rather than a rare edge case, and it changes where the engineering work happens, moving it off individual airframes and into data centers that can serve an entire fleet at once. This is the model that SPARC AI Inc. (OTC: SPAIF) (profile) has built its Overwatch Positioning Network around, sending a drone's existing telemetry to the company's servers and returning latitude, longitude and time in roughly a third of a second, all without adding a single gram of payload to the aircraft. For investors watching the positioning, navigation and timing sector shift from hardware toward infrastructure, that architecture is worth understanding in detail. The move also firmly gives the company a stronghold position among leading companies who are operating in the drones/unmanned systems space, including Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS), Trimble Inc. (NASDAQ: TRMB), Unusual Machines Inc. (NYSE American: UMAC) and Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO).

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Draganfly (NASDAQ: DPRO) shares surged on heavy call option activity, a revenue beat, a new defense leadership hire, an acquisition, and an Army contract amid low float and high short interest.

Revenue surged 26% year-over-year to $2.7 million amid strategic drone partnerships.

Military surveillance, commercial inspection, energy infrastructure and AI-powered automation are converging to create a potentially explosive long-term growth market

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Draganfly (NASDAQ:DPRO) reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of CAD 2.7 million, up 26% from CAD 2.1 million a year earlier, as higher product sales helped drive growth. The drone technology company said it recorded CAD 2.6 million in product sales during the quarter, while drone services accounted

Companies across construction, energy, agriculture, logistics, and defense are driving record demand for outsourced drone operations

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Draganfly (NASDAQ: DPRO) selected by IACLEA to launch a nationwide campus drone program for US colleges. Read the full details here.

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Integrated C-UAS platforms are rapidly becoming essential infrastructure for modern military operations and national security

AINewsWire Editorial Coverage : The nature of modern conflict is being fundamentally rewritten, driven by the explosive proliferation of cheap, mass-produced drones that are upending the economics of warfare. In war-torn setting such as Ukraine, millions of low-cost systems, often assembled in small workshops or adapted from off-the-shelf commercial hardware, are now performing functions once only sophisticated aircraft and expensive precision munitions could do. However, while drone hardware has grown abundant and affordable, a glaring constraint has surfaced: The vast majority of these systems lack the intelligence needed to operate independently in contested environments. GPS jamming, electronic warfare and the continuous requirement for human control expose a widening gap between what drones are capable of and what they need to be capable of to remain operationally relevant on a scale. Defense leaders are realizing that the next chapter of this revolution will not be written by better hardware alone but by better software, the intelligence layer that delivers autonomy, navigation and targeting precision without depending on systems that adversaries have learned to disrupt. SPARC AI Inc. (OTC: SPAIF) ( Profile ) is operating within this space, creating a software-only platform meant to equip any drone, regardless of cost or manufacturer, with GPS-denied navigation and precision targeting capability. SPARC AI operates alongside a broader cohort of companies active in the drone, AI, and defense-tech space, including Swarmer Inc. (NASDAQ: SWMR), Unusual Machines (NYSE American: UMAC), Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) and…

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AUSTIN, Texas, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AINewsWire Editorial Coverage: The nature of modern conflict is being fundamentally rewritten, driven by the explosive proliferation of cheap, mass-produced drones that are upending the economics of warfare. In war-torn settings such as Ukraine, millions of low-cost systems, often assembled in small workshops or adapted from off-the-shelf commercial hardware, are now performing functions once only sophisticated aircraft and expensive precision munitions could do. However, while drone hardware has grown abundant and affordable, a glaring constraint has surfaced: The vast majority of these systems lack the intelligence needed to operate independently in contested environments. GPS jamming, electronic warfare and the continuous requirement for human control expose a widening gap between what drones are capable of and what they need to be capable of to remain operationally relevant at scale. Defense leaders are realizing that the next chapter of this revolution will not be written by better hardware alone but by better software, the intelligence layer that delivers autonomy, navigation and targeting precision without depending on systems that adversaries have learned to disrupt. SPARC AI Inc. (OTC: SPAIF) (profile) is operating within this space, creating a software-only platform meant to equip any drone, regardless of cost or manufacturer, with GPS-denied navigation and precision targeting capability. SPARC AI operates alongside a broader cohort of companies active in the drone, AI, and defense-tech space, including Swarmer Inc. (NASDAQ: SWMR), Unusual Machines (NYSE American: UMAC), Draganfly Inc. (NASDAQ: DPRO) and Red Cat Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RCAT).

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