Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, has never shied away from a fight.

The commercial drone industry wants to create a privately funded and operated air-traffic control network, separate from the current federal system, to enable widespread operations at low altitudes.

The race to control the future of self-driving trucking just got even more competitive.

Companies that ship and handle goods moving through supply chains have a problem: they don’t often know where their shipments are in far-flung freight networks or when they will arrive.