After watching wildfire smoke close their only road home in 2017, brothers Michael and Jeff Baxter left aerospace careers at Boeing and SpaceX to build Dragonfly, an unmanned aircraft designed to make aerial firefighting safer, cheaper and possible at night.

LVT's 2026 Public Safety & Privacy Benchmark, backed by a Harris Poll of 2,089 U.S. adults, finds Americans trust visible AI cameras more than armed guards, support behavior-detection technology, but draw a firm bipartisan line against tracking at civic events.

Implementing Ideas marked 20 years in business with a ribbon-cutting open house at its new Orem facility, featuring remarks from CEO David Zoppetti, 47G's Gerritt Vander Linden, and keynote speaker Johnny Ferry of the Utah Manufacturers Association.

Hypercraft (Provo, UT) unveiled its Razorback autonomous ground vehicle at a West Jordan briefing with Fortem, Base Case, and 47G, pairing a software-defined UGV platform with Fortem's counter-drone payload amid Utah's fast-growing aerospace and defense sector.

A hybrid-electric aircraft from Ampaire (Long Beach, CA) completes a demonstration flight across Utah as part of UDOT's uFLY initiative. The flight is helping evaluate how next-generation aircraft can safely operate within today's aviation system while reducing fuel consumption and emissions

Nuclea Energy signed an MOU to explore siting a lead-cooled test reactor at Utah's San Rafael Energy Lab in Emery County, a technology with no existing Western Hemisphere precedent.

St. George entrepreneur Matthew Dickerson launches Tdooz, a fixed-price home services booking app he calls the "DoorDash for home services." The platform targets a $650 billion industry, beginning with a Washington County beta ahead of a planned Phoenix expansion.

Craig Cossairt is preparing to launch Bloom, an AI-native dating app that converts into a relationship app once couples commit — a first for the industry. He's building toward launch after winning a UVU data governance bounty in June.