During Xponential 2017, San Luis Obispo, CA-based WhiteFox Defense Technologies, Inc. demonstrated its flagship technology, the DroneFox, which is built to respond to dangerous small UAS. 

Designed to detect, identify, and mitigate UAS with a multi-mile range, the DroneFox is a SWaP-C optimized, portable technology, which uses a “master signal” to track and temporarily take control of UAS. 

Using the “master signal,” the operator of the DroneFox can choose a course of action from a variety of responses, including land, return to launch, confiscate, and reroute. 

The DroneFox is different from jammers and other non-kinetic products because it can select the exact signal it wants to manipulate without interfering with any others signals, even other UAS. 

“The DroneFox demonstrated air-tight tests all week, without a single problem all the way through the kill chain from detection through threat assessment and into a safe landing,” says WhiteFox CEO Luke Fox through a press release. 

“The potential harm drones can cause, whether it’s drug smuggling or corporate espionage, is prolific and growing as the technology advances. What’s needed now is a solution that is adaptable and deployable to a diverse set of operations, which is why and how we designed the DroneFox.” 

During Xponential, WhiteFox performed operational tests for several different parties, including FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, Discovery Channel hosts, UAS manufacturers and an international representation of UAS technologists.