DroneShield announced the establishment of its U.S. Advisory Board, comprising senior military and national security leaders with extensive operational and industry expertise. The Advisory Board will support DroneShield’s expanding U.S. operations, providing strategic guidance on growth, policy engagement, and technology adoption within military, intelligence, and critical infrastructure sectors.
General Mark D. Kelly (Ret.), U.S. Air Force: General Kelly completed a 38-year career in the United States Air Force, most recently serving as Commander, Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, where he led and prepared combat-ready air, space, cyber, and intelligence forces for global operations. His distinguished career includes previous roles as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, and as Commander of both 9th and 12th Air Forces. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School and the National War College, General Kelly is a command pilot with over 6,000 flight hours, including 800 combat hours in fighter aircraft.
Brigadier General Gwyn Armfield (Ret.), U.S. Air Force: Brigadier General Armfield recently completed nearly three decades of service in the U.S. Air Force. He is the founder of RGA Consulting Group, advising clients in leadership, risk management, and technology development. His military career included roles as Vice Director for Strategy and Plans at U.S. Central Command and Deputy Commanding General for U.S. and Coalition Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan. A former National Security Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, he was also Chief of Strategy for U.S. European Command and recipient of the Air Force’s Lance Sijan Leadership Award for his actions in Afghanistan.
Lt. Jay Humphlett (Ret.), U.S. Navy: A business transformation and military industry leader, Jay Humphlett has driven high-impact strategic capture initiatives at Raytheon and Dataminr. A former U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer and TOPGUN graduate, he has held senior executive roles across venture capital, military, and intelligence-driven technology sectors. His experience spans a variety of markets and business models to include SaaS, AI, PAI/OSINT, Special Mission Aviation, hardware, systems integration, and services. His career includes leadership positions as President of a special mission aviation firm and CEO of a global health protection company.
Anthony P. Reardon (Ret.), U.S. Air Force: Anthony Reardon served as Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Arlington, Virginia, as a member of the Senior Executive Service prior to his retirement. As the Air Force’s senior career civilian advisor to the Secretary, he oversaw a $5.6 billion annual portfolio and more than 37,000 personnel, implementing Secretariat policies, goals, and objectives. Earlier in his career, Mr. Reardon held senior roles including Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Requirements; Director of Policy, Plans, and Strategy for Air Force International Affairs; and Deputy Director of Legislative Liaison. A former active-duty Air Force Weapons Systems Officer, flying the RF-4C and held staff positions across multiple commands, accruing over 1,900 flight hours.
DroneShield continues to expand its U.S. footprint across government and commercial markets, with growing demand for its AI-enabled counter-UAS, electronic warfare, and threat-detection solutions.
“The formation of our U.S. Advisory Board marks another milestone in DroneShield’s growth trajectory. Each member brings unique insight from decades of leadership across military operations, military technology, and national security. Their collective experience will strengthen DroneShield’s ability to support U.S. and allied partners in addressing the evolving drone threat environment,” said Oleg Vornik, CEO, DroneShield.
Increasing order pace with latest $7.6 million order
DroneShield also announced it is seeing continued rapid increase in customer order flow, substantially from repeat customers looking to step up the amount of counter-drone systems from a low or no existing base, with the receipt of a package of 3 standalone contracts totalling $7.6 million for handheld systems for delivery to the U.S. Government. DroneShield expects to deliver all equipment in Q4 2025, with cash payments expected in Q4 2025 or Q1 2026. No additional material conditions need to be satisfied. There is no obligation for any additional contracts from this customer.
DroneShield has previously received orders from this customer, including $5.7 million in May 2024 and $7.9 million in September 2025. These repeat orders strengthen DroneShield’s position as a trusted provider of mission-critical solutions to address the growing challenge of drone threats on the modern battlefield and the civilian sector.
DroneShield CEO, Oleg Vornik said, “In addition to the larger orders such as the $62 million European order received in June and fully delivered since, smaller frequent orders such as this one play an important role in ensuring the steady flow of the business, ongoing market fulfilment with our solutions, as well as building trust and laying ground for the larger orders in our sales pipeline. The pipeline includes multiple opportunities over $100 million each, including the largest $800 million opportunity, that the business is currently working on, with our customers. For 2025 year to date, DroneShield has received 78 Purchase Orders with a median size order of approximately $400k. This compared to 66 orders for all of 2024, with the median order value of $200k – showing a diverse business continuing to grow across all metrics. Moving forward, taking into account the substantial revenue growth of the business in 2025, the announcement threshold for received orders in 2026 will increase from the current $5 million (which was based on the $57 million of revenue in 2024) to $20 million, unless there is a further rationale to announce a received smaller order.”
Operationally, DroneShield continues to execute on production expansion from $500 million annually to $2.4 billion by end of 2026, including commencement of European and U.S. based assembly plants. DroneShield’s handheld solutions form a cornerstone of its wider counter-drone portfolio, which spans dismounted, vehicle-mounted, and fixed-site solutions that fuse multiple sensors and effectors integrated through DroneShield’s advanced software. Together, they provide a layered defense architecture enabling operators to detect, track, identify, and defeat hostile drones with speed and precision.
Customers enrolled into the SaaS-based AI software updates receive new firmware quarterly through DroneShield’s secure portal. DroneShield has launched its newest AI SaaS offering last month, RFAI-ATK, providing an AI-enabling drone defeat capability, that is currently undergoing trial deployments with its customers and expected to launch as a regular SaaS solution in mid 2026.
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