Ondas Holdings’ Ondas Autonomous Systems (OAS) has been selected as the prime contractor for a development and commercialisation programme for a border protection system for the United States. Ondas expects to receive the initial purchase order in January 2026 to launch a multi-phase programme spanning the next two years.
Under the tender, OAS will architect, develop and integrate a full-scale drone-based autonomous border protection system designed to operate across both fixed and mobile environments. The multi-phase programme is expected to culminate in the deployment of thousands of autonomous drones to provide persistent ISR, swarm-based response and automated threat mitigation across complex border terrain. All sensors, effectors, and mission operations will be unified under a centralised command-and-control architecture.
As prime contractor, OAS will lead system design and integration, combining its autonomous aerial platforms with complementary technologies from partners. Ondas said that it expects the architecture developed under this programme to be “highly relevant” to additional defence and homeland security customers in other countries.
The programme will incorporate elements of Ondas’ System-of-Systems strategy, which integrates aerial, ground and cyber capabilities such as Airobotics’ autonomous drones, Iron Drone’s interception technologies, and Sentrycs’ cyber-over-RF safe-takeover capability.
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