Motorola Solutions to acquire D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 billion

Motorola Solutions agreed to get D-Fend Solutions, an Israeli counter-drone exertion company, for $1.5 billion, the institution announced Monday.

The Israeli startup, which launched successful 2016, has built its concern astir a exertion that commandeers unauthorized drones portion they are airborne by overriding their vigor communications — an attack that avoids the awesome disruption and carnal demolition associated with jamming oregon kinetic takedowns, according to Reuters. EnforceAir, the company's superior product, has been enactment into work successful upward of 30 nations — among them NATO subordinate states — wherever it is utilized to unafraid subject installations, airports, and different delicate sites. Customers connected the national broadside see the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice, according to Reuters.

Revenue astatine D-Fend has grown astatine an yearly clip exceeding 50% for each of the past 3 years; Motorola Solutions said it expects the institution to bring successful $185 cardinal for the afloat twelvemonth 2026. The woody is expected to adjacent successful the 4th fourth of 2026, taxable to regulatory approvals.

Motorola Solutions president and CEO Greg Brown said successful a connection that drone threats contiguous necessitate much than detection. "With D-Fend, drone threats are not conscionable identified — their communications are overridden and redirected, safely bringing them to the ground, keeping radical and communities safe," Brown said.

D-Fend president and CEO Zohar Halachmi said the acquisition would let the institution to grow its reach. "By leveraging Motorola Solutions' heavy expertise and semipermanent lawsuit relationships crossed nationalist safety, national and enterprise, we tin present adjacent greater interaction to the communities and organizations we serve," Halachmi said successful a statement.

A precocious enacted U.S. instrumentality is helping thrust request for this benignant of technology. The Safer Skies Act, passed arsenic portion of the fiscal twelvemonth 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, authorizes trained and certified authorities and section instrumentality enforcement officers to detect, track, and, wherever permitted, neutralize drones that airs a nationalist information risk, the institution said.

Adding D-Fend extends a strategy Motorola Solutions acceptable successful question with its $4.4 cardinal acquisition of Silvus, a drone communications and networking firm, positioning the institution to vie connected some sides of the drone marketplace — arsenic a supplier of drone exertion and arsenic a seller of tools designed to antagonistic it, according to Reuters.

Research steadfast Mordor Intelligence estimates the counter-drone manufacture generated $2.47 cardinal successful 2026 and forecasts that fig volition ascent to $8.42 cardinal wrong 5 years, according to Reuters. Motorola Solutions banal was up much than 2% connected Monday.