Tag: Drone as First Responder (DFR)
Flock Safety and Ring partnership to let customers share video with law enforcement
October 20, 2025SSN Staff
ATLANTA — Flock Safety and Ring have announced that Flock Safety will integrate with Ring’s Community Requests to give customers the option to share video footage with local public safety agencies that use Flock software to investigate active cases.
The partnership comes on the heels of recent efforts by Flock Safety to expand its influence in the public safety sector with its Alpha platform Drone as First Responder (DFR) offering.
Through Ring’s Community Requests feature...
Flock Safety unveils Alpha, a U.S.-built drone as first responder system
October 17, 2025SSN Staff
ATLANTA — Flock Safety has announced Flock Alpha, the company’s first-ever American-made, NDAA-compliant drone system that’s built to set a new standard in the Drone as First Responder (DFR) industry.
Alpha is purpose-built for emergency situations and public safety, combining rapid response capabilities with extended flight endurance and advanced cameras capable of reading a vehicle license plate from 2,000 feet away. Able to reach up to 60 MPH speeds, Alpha is the fastest...
Versaterm acquires DroneSense
July 30, 2025SSN Staff
OTTAWA, Ontario & AUSTIN, Texas — Versaterm announced its acquisition of DroneSense, which provides software solutions enabling public safety agencies to leverage drone technology for operations and Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs.
By incorporating DroneSense’s hardware-agnostic drone management platform directly into Versaterm’s Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Incident Command & Control systems, agencies will be able to deploy drone flights as seamlessly as dispatching...
Flock Safety announces Flock911 for Aerodome
April 10, 2025SSN Staff
ATLANTA — Flock Safety has announced that Flock Aerodome Drone as First Responder (DFR) will now include Flock911 and its live access to 911 transcription and location data at no additional cost.
Together, Flock Aerodome and Flock911 allow DFR pilots to fly a drone to emergency scenes or crime incidents before the call is even completed.
Paired with Flock Aerodome DFR, a pilot could have a drone on-scene at an emergency before the dispatch operator even finishes entering the call into...
Drones fly into 2025: ‘A standard and critical threat vector’
January 13, 2025Ken Showers
STERLING, Va. — As much a tool for security as disruption, drones rocketed into the public view at the end of 2024, and the experts at Dedrone have insights on the implications of that for the future.
Whether it was swarms of mysterious drones spotted over New Jersey, seen over U.S. Airforce bases in England, or witnessed near critical infrastructure, the threat of drones has become apparently clear. Worries of clandestine operations have even led federal officials to blacklist the...
DFR programs breaking new ground thanks to FAA waiver
October 23, 2024Ken Showers
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Axon has announced that the Campbell Police Department in California received a groundbreaking waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations as part of its Drone as First Responder (DFR) program.
Axon notes that this approval is the first of its kind to include nighttime operations and allows the Campbell Police Department to fly missions using Dedrone by Axon’s DedroneBeyond technology without...
Flock Safety acquires Aerodome
October 18, 2024SSN Staff
ATLANTA — Flock Safety, a public safety technology provider, has announced the acquisition of Aerodome, a pioneer in Drone as First Responder (DFR) technology.
This move brings Aerodome’s drone and remote piloting software under the Flock Safety umbrella, and accelerates its plan to introduce a suite of American-made, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)-compliant drones, set to be released over the next 12 months. These new drones will be fully compliant with the National Defense...