Defense & National Security Companies – Page 5

Israeli-rooted public robotics company developing stabilized drone systems for defense, homeland security, and critical-infrastructure maintenance. Its portfolio combines the Elbit-marketed Bird of Prey remote weapon system with the civilian IC Drone and newer AEROTRACE infrastructure-intelligence platform.

Althimis is an Israeli defense-technology startup building a unified 'unmanned readiness' software platform that combines drone-operator training, mission simulation, and AI-driven mission planning, anchored by a proprietary AI 'Chaos Engine' that stress-tests forces against extreme and unpredictable drone and drone-swarm attack scenarios.

Helios Project is an Israeli deep-tech metallurgy and space-resources company whose sodium-based Helios Cycle produces iron and other metals from ore using mostly thermal energy while emitting only oxygen — a process born from a system to extract breathable oxygen and metals from lunar regolith, and the only Israeli/international company selected for DARPA's LunA-10 lunar-architecture study.

Israeli pre-silicon semiconductor venture developing a camera-side semantic chip that extracts compact machine-useful evidence from raw image-sensor streams before conventional image processing and compression. Its initial focus is low-power, low-bandwidth detection of distant, low-contrast drones, with a longer-term path into industrial machine vision.

Spectralx (formerly Polaris Solutions) is an Israeli defense-survivability company founded by Maglan special-forces veterans that designs multispectral camouflage, signature-management, and concealment systems — including the widely fielded Kit 300 thermal-visual-concealment sheet — to make soldiers, vehicles, vessels, and platforms harder to detect across visual, thermal, infrared, and radar sensors.

ARTSYS360 is a private Israeli radar startup associated with compact 3D, 360-degree micro-radar products for detecting and tracking people, vehicles, drones, and traffic. Its public record supports a credible dual-use sensing thesis, but current operating scale, deployments, and website availability remain unverified.

IDenta is an Israeli chemical-detection and forensic-products company supplying single-use field tests for drugs, drug precursors, explosives, residues, and selected forensic evidence. Its products target law-enforcement, military, government, customs, border, and first-response workflows where a rapid presumptive result is useful before laboratory confirmation.

Israeli defense workforce company providing recruitment, training, and placement of engineering talent for defense contractors and emerging defense technology ventures.

IMI Systems, formerly Israel Military Industries and known in Hebrew as Ta'as, was Israel's state-owned defense manufacturer for more than eight decades. Elbit Systems completed its acquisition of IMI in November 2018, and the surviving operating capabilities now sit primarily inside Elbit Systems Land rather than in a standalone company.

NewRocket is an Israeli propulsion company developing PowerGel, a non-toxic, storable, throttleable gel bi-propellant and the rocket engines that burn it, positioned as a green replacement for hydrazine-class propulsion in satellites, orbital tugs, landers, and defense missions.

Soltam Systems is a mature Israeli defense business focused on artillery, mortar, and indirect-fire capabilities that is now wholly owned by Elbit Systems. The record is best treated as a defense-industrial asset and technology lineage within Elbit's land-systems portfolio, not as an independent venture-backed startup.

Paxis (Paxis Ceramics) is an Israeli advanced-ceramics manufacturer in Carmiel/Tefen that develops and produces reaction-bonded boron-carbide and silicon-carbide ballistic armor — soldier plates, vehicle tiles, and aircraft/marine panels — for Israeli and allied defense forces, positioning itself as a sovereign, Israeli-made alternative to imported armor ceramics.

Daya Defense is an Israeli defense-technology startup developing the Mission-Fit aerial-defense system, an intelligence-to-action platform intended to provide affordable, scalable protection for critical assets against aerial threats. The company is an early, stealth-mode venture with limited public disclosure and no publicly confirmed deployment or contract.

Ruby AI (Ruby.AI Robotic Technologies) is an Israeli physical-AI robotics company that builds autonomous multi-arm robots for hazardous, repetitive real-world maintenance work, including a fielded IDF system that cuts armored-vehicle maintenance from roughly two days to two hours and commercial robotic refueling, charging, and washing platforms.

Aerodrome Group is an Israel-based developer of precision loitering munitions focused on autonomous target-discrimination technology, which in March 2026 attracted a strategic investment from U.S.-listed drone maker EagleNXT (AgEagle Aerial Systems) that includes an option to form a U.S.-based joint venture.

Rescue Heat is an Israeli smart adhesive thermal patch, developed by biomedical-engineering firm Noyad Biomed, that actively rewarms trauma casualties to counter battlefield and civilian hypothermia — a core driver of trauma mortality — and is already being field-tested by elite IDF units in Gaza.

AstroBuild is an Israeli stealth-mode space startup publicly described as developing an Orbital Protection Layer. Available evidence supports an early aerospace and defense profile, but does not yet establish the layer's architecture, product maturity, customers, or financing beyond a pre-funding status.

MTI Wireless Edge is an Israel-based, London AIM-listed designer and manufacturer of antennas and RF/microwave systems spanning 100 KHz to 174 GHz for military, RFID, 5G-backhaul, and commercial markets, and — through its Mottech and Summit subsidiaries — a provider of water/irrigation control systems and RF component distribution.

N-Cortex is an Israeli deep-tech company developing low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) millimeter-wave radars for drones. Its 2026 Israel Innovation Authority Startup Fund award places a newly surfaced radar capability inside Israel's defense, smart-mobility, and strategic-sensing ecosystem, although public product and traction disclosure remains limited.

Bariks Health is an Israeli medical-device startup that has built a patented, foldable, ~25 kg portable hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) chamber reaching up to 3 ATA, targeting wellness, longevity, and sports markets while extending into defense and emergency casualty care such as blast injuries, smoke inhalation, and diving accidents.

Aero Sol is an Israeli aerospace and defense manufacturer that designs and produces composite aerostructures, UAV systems, radomes, payload enclosures, and specialized pilot headgear. Its original website now redirects to Aero Sentinel, the operating brand associated with the company, and public reporting identifies Aero Sol as a majority-owned subsidiary of TASE-listed Veloryx following a 2026 transaction.

Core Scientific Creations is an Israeli medical-device company whose WoundClot hemostatic gauze is a cellulose-based, bioabsorbable dressing that stops moderate-to-severe bleeding by forming an adhesive 3D gel matrix, fielded across battlefield trauma care, emergency response, and surgery.

Oz Defense Systems is an Israeli stealth-mode defense startup developing systems intended to prevent two-sided shooting, or friendly-fire incidents, in operational environments. Public information identifies an R&D-stage combat-systems focus, but does not disclose the product architecture, deployments, or customers.

MCTECH RF Technologies is an Israeli developer and manufacturer of high-end radio-frequency jamming and counter-drone (C-UAS) systems, whose AI-enabled MC-HORIZON product family detects, classifies, and neutralizes hostile UAVs and RF-triggered threats for military, homeland-security, and critical-infrastructure customers worldwide.

Bokken Defense is an Israeli defense startup developing AI-enabled weapons and less-lethal systems for security and defense agencies. Its disclosed technical thesis combines computer-vision target recognition with electronic and mechanical mechanisms embedded in weapon and related platforms to help operators distinguish dangerous targets from non-threats in real time.

SimiGon develops SIMbox, a modular modeling, simulation, training-management, and debriefing software platform for military, aerospace, government, and selected industrial training applications. It is no longer an independent startup: following its 2022 merger with Power Breezer, SimiGon operates as a Maxify Solutions subsidiary while continuing to market the SimiGon brand.

Cherev is an Israeli defense-technology startup founded in October 2023 by veterans of elite military and security units. Its flagship Keshet Yehonatan system combines scenario-based combat simulation, recorded performance measurement, instructor-led after-action review, and counter-FPV readiness training for military, security, law-enforcement, government, NATO-partner, and private-security organizations.

BVR Systems (1998) Ltd. was an Israeli developer of air, sea, and ground training, simulation, and debriefing systems, best known for the EHUD air combat maneuvering instrumentation (ACMI) family. Elbit Systems acquired substantially all of the business and assets, including the BVR brand, in November 2009, so this record represents a historical acquired defense asset rather than a current independent startup.

Phantom Technologies is an Israeli developer and manufacturer of counter-drone, RF-jamming, tactical-intelligence, and counter-surveillance systems, best known for its Phantom Dome 180 integrated counter-UAV platform and a broad line of electronic-warfare products sold to military, law-enforcement, and critical-infrastructure customers worldwide.

Guardian7 is an Israeli defense-tech startup building a software-defined operating system for tactical communications that fuses cognitive RF and cognitive networking to keep military and rescue teams connected — synchronizing multiple radio, cellular, and satellite channels into one resilient, high-bandwidth data and video link in contested, austere environments.

Eltics is an Israeli defense-technology company associated with Black Fox, an active adaptive thermal and multispectral camouflage concept for land, airborne, and naval platforms. Public evidence supports a patented R&D program and historical field demonstrations, but does not establish current production, deployment, revenue, or operating scale.

Evigilo was an Israeli emergency mass-notification company whose SMART platform combined geo-targeted, multi-channel public warning with operator control and two-way citizen communication. Public ecosystem records identify it as acquired by NGSoft in December 2018 and inactive, so this entry should be read as an analysis of the acquired asset and its documented technology rather than as an active standalone startup.

MMD Robotics was an Israeli defense-robotics startup developing modular electric and hybrid military ground vehicles for manned and unmanned missions. Public evidence describes a small, early-stage company focused on flexible military mobility, but its current operating status and any continuing product activity require verification.

Eyeron was an Israeli micro-UAS startup that developed small autonomous indoor drones for first-responder and tactical reconnaissance in dangerous buildings. Public records indicate that the company ceased operations in January 2019.

AeroTactiX was an Israeli developer and manufacturer of compact mini-UAV systems, including the Skyzer450, autopilots, communications, ground stations, and payload-integration services. Public startup and industry records indicate that it ceased operations in April 2025, so this record describes a historically relevant but currently wound-down company.