D-Fend Solutions’ counter-drone platform, EnforceAir, was successfully deployed across North American host cities during the 2026 FIFA World Cup to address unauthorized drone activity around matches, surrounding venues, and critical infrastructure.
EnforceAir uses a non-kinetic, non-disruptive Radio Frequency (RF) cyber-takeover approach. According to D-Fend Solutions, the technology provided operators with an alternative to legacy RF jamming and kinetic counter-drone mitigation methods.
More than 20 public safety agencies adopted EnforceAir for tournament operations, with the platform selected by national, federal, state, and local law enforcement and public safety organizations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The deployment extended across multiple tournament locations and involved coordination between international, federal, state, and local agencies operating within a complex, multi-layered security environment. D-Fend Solutions described the wider counter-drone security effort as covering the tournament’s land, air, and waterways.
D-Fend Solutions and its public safety partners maintained a strict posture of confidentiality around the deployments in the lead-up to and throughout the tournament.
Zohar Halachmi, Chairman and CEO of D-Fend Solutions, commented, “The unprecedented scale of the 2026 World Cup required a sophisticated, multi-layered approach to airspace safety, and the widespread deployment of EnforceAir is a profound validation of the trust elite public safety agencies place in D-Fend Solutions. Protecting high-stakes events of this magnitude is exactly what our technology is built to do. By providing a non-kinetic, RF cyber-takeover capability, we enabled security professionals to safely mitigate drone risks without disrupting the matches, surrounding critical infrastructure, or vital communications, serving as a trusted foundational layer for operational safety in the security architecture for the world’s biggest games.”
Jesús Alfredo Hernández Olvera, Director General, Cyber Investigation and Technological Operations, Secretariat of Citizen Security, Mexico City Police, stated, “Ensuring airspace safety at major international sporting matches requires absolute precision. EnforceAir served as a vital, non-disruptive layer in our security architecture to mitigate unauthorized drone activities during the events.”
D-Fend Solutions has an established deployment history with federal, national, state, and local public safety agencies worldwide. The company’s expansion into US state, local, tribal, and territorial markets has been enabled by recent legislation and reflects the growing demand field-proven, non-kinetic counter-drone solutions at the municipal, state, and regional levels.
