Ondas Holdings Inc (ONDS)

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Eric Brock quoted in NYT article:

"El Paso Incident Highlights Gaps in America’s Drone Defense Industry"
by Farah Stockman, Feb. 12

long article. A few snips:

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security opened a new office to advance drone and counter-drone technologies. It also requested proposals from the counter-drone industry for technology worth up to $1.5 billion to protect critical infrastructure, the border and the public, according to a news release.

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To prepare for the World Cup, the federal government has given millions of dollars to host cities to purchase equipment that can help them identify, track and, if need be, neutralize unfriendly drones that enter the airspace above crowded stadiums.

This week, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York announced that four public-safety agencies involved with the security of World Cup events had received more than $17.2 million to buy equipment to protect against the threat of the illegal use of drones.

Systems that can protect against enemy drones include sensors that detect flying foreign objects, software that identifies drones based on unique signals they cast off and technology that can hijack them, scramble their navigation systems or physically knock them out of the sky.

Eric Brock, the founder of Ondas, a company that manufactures counter-drone technology, said federal officials were still hammering out which technology would be used under which circumstances.

“What you are going to use at the FIFA World Cup is not the same thing you do at the border of Mexico, which is not the same thing that you do on the battlefield,” he said.

He acknowledged that it could be time-consuming and difficult to get permission from the F.A.A. to test systems in real-world conditions, but said the technology was still moving forward. Four years ago, Ondas bought Iron Drone, a company that invented a system that deploys drones capable of capturing other drones with a net. Last fall, it acquired Sentrycs, a company that he said had the capability to hijack the internal controls of a wayward drone and land it safely.

“The need for counter-drone infrastructure is so vast, this is a 10-year investment cycle,” he said. “To cover this properly and comprehensively as is likely to be needed, it’s going to take a long time.”