[New] By 2026, over 75% of precision agriculture will rely on drone airspace and safety maps for field management.
Farmonaut
[New] By 2026, over 70% of large farms are projected to use GPS-based smart farming tools for precise field mapping.
Farmonaut
[New] By 2026, automated inventory systems using RFID and sensors will reach 99% accuracy.
Emerline
[New] The WASP platform will likely evolve toward enhanced autonomous targeting and swarm coordination capabilities, leveraging the established manufacturing base to rapidly field upgraded variants addressing lessons from Ukraine and potential Indo-Pacific contingencies.
Drone Warfare
[New] The Starlink dependency creates a strategic vulnerability-control of satellite internet access becomes a critical operational lever, and SpaceX's geofencing capabilities represent a single point of failure exploitable through cyber operations, account compromise, or coercive diplomacy.
Drone Warfare
[New] In the field of unmanned systems, Ukraine plans to produce more than 7 million drones in 2026.
Militarnyi
[New] Near-field communication has been a highly useful technology for making contactless payments, but 2026 will see it become more involved in security incidents.
Samsung Business Insights
[New] Nvidia Corp. continues to benefit from its near-monopoly on high-end GPUs, though it faces emerging geopolitical risks following reports of chip smuggling to restricted markets.
Valley City Times-Record
[New] Project Kuiper's carrier-centric strategy and OneWeb's partnerships with telecom operators could help integrate LEO capacity into national broadband plans rather than positioning it purely as a premium product.
Programming Helper
[New] If a chain reaction of collisions occurs, certain altitudes could become unusable, threatening the $190+ billion worth of global satellite infrastructure we rely on for GPS, telecommunications, and climate monitoring.
Innovation News Network
[New] 2026 will be shaped by intersecting regimes across geopolitics, the economy and markets, with inflation staying close to 3%, growth near trend, cautious Fed easing, and continued use of tariffs and industrial policy as strategic tools.
SeafoodNews
[New] The Commission's messaging is clear on near-term milestones: start transitioning by end of 2026, and transition protection of critical infrastructures as soon as possible, no later than end of 2030.
Cryptomathic
[New] Global cyber risks tied to connected devices and autonomous systems are emerging as one of the most pressing near-term threats heading into 2026.
IOT Insider
[New] Without EUV machines, which might soon cost more than 600 million Euro per unit, fabricating chips at the most advanced process nodes is near impossible. / Netherlands
DirectIndustry e-Magazine
[New] In 2026, intelligent automation will mean faster detection, smarter correlation, and near-instant response, dramatically reducing dwell time.
SecurityBrief Australia
[New] By 2026, brands using e-commerce that do not incorporate conversational AI will be weak in the field of experience, speed, and personalization.
Rainstream Technologies
[New] The economic disruption caused by near-total automation will force a global debate on universal basic income (UBI) and the very nature of work and purpose in a post-scarcity world.
INAIRSPACE
[New] The fragmentation of technology standards - China's developing parallel ecosystems in everything from telecommunications (5G) to payment systems - will constrain addressable markets and create stranded investments in incompatible technologies.
Brown Brothers Harriman
[New] The creation of the $2 b Critical Minerals Sovereign Fund and First and Last Mile Fund will invest in getting near-term critical minerals projects to production.
EY
[New] Work with providers who have security features baked in - for example, NFC phone payments like Apple Pay or Google Pay are inherently tokenized and encrypted, which is great, but custom RFID solutions might need extra scrutiny.
Ticket Fairy
[New] In 2026, we will see increased availability of Edge data centers near UK metros, opening up new opportunities for sectors like smart manufacturing and transport.
Datacentre Solutions
Last updated: 02 February 2026
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