D-Fend EnforceAir

D-Fend Solutions' EnforceAir is an Israeli radio-frequency cyber-takeover counter-drone system that passively detects a hostile drone, seizes its control link through protocol manipulation and lands it at a predefined safe zone without jamming or kinetic force.

Overview

EnforceAir is the flagship product of D-Fend Solutions, a counter-drone company headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel. Where most counter-UAS mitigation either floods the spectrum with noise (jamming) or destroys the aircraft (guns, missiles, interceptors, nets), EnforceAir does neither. The system passively listens for a drone's radio emissions, decodes the communications protocol linking the aircraft to its operator, and then injects its own commands into that link - overriding the original pilot and flying the drone to a controlled landing at a pre-set safe point, according to D-Fend Solutions. The pitch is surgical effect and continuity: GNSS, cellular service and authorized drones in the same airspace keep working, and nothing falls onto a crowd.

The system moved from niche to headline in June 2026, when Motorola Solutions announced a definitive agreement to acquire D-Fend for $1.5 billion, citing thousands of deployments across more than 30 countries, three straight years of over 50% annual revenue growth and expected 2026 revenue of $185 million. The deal, also reported by Reuters, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026 pending regulatory approval - making EnforceAir the centerpiece of a US public-safety giant's counter-drone strategy just as new US law opens domestic drone mitigation to state and local police.

Development

D-Fend Solutions was founded in Ra'anana around 2016-2017 - company materials say 2017, while Calcalist reports 2016 - by Zohar Halachmi (chairman and CEO), Assaf Monsa (CTO) and Yaniv Benbenisti (president and chief product officer). Per Calcalist, the company raised a comparatively modest $67 million in total: Vertex Ventures Israel led the first round and remained the largest outside shareholder at roughly 17%, Claridge Israel led a $28 million round in 2019, and IGP led a 2024 round at a valuation of about $250 million.

The US government was the formative customer. EnforceAir was co-developed with the Pentagon's Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict, and by 2019 had been fielded by more than twenty US DoD, DHS and DOJ units and agencies, including US Special Operations Forces, the US Army, the FBI and Customs and Border Protection, according to a D-Fend press release. In February 2020, the Defense Innovation Unit selected EnforceAir as the core RF system for a counter-drone system-of-systems after evaluating sixteen companies at Black Dart 2019.

The product line has gone through three visible generations: the original EnforceAir, the higher-performance EnforceAir2 (with a ruggedized maritime version announced in February 2025), and EnforceAir PLUS, launched in August 2025, which bolts radar detection and an optional jammer onto the cyber-takeover core, per Dronelife. The Motorola acquisition, announced June 1, 2026, caps that trajectory.

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