What Would the World Miss If infiniDome Didn't Exist?

Imagine a drone mid-flight autonomously navigating its course. It could be carrying a medical delivery to a remote village, surveying farmland for crop health, or conducting a critical surveillance mission in a conflict zone. Then, without warning, the signal dies. Simply because someone, somewhere, flipped a switch on a pocket-sized device, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) went dark.

This is not a hypothetical scenario. It is an everyday reality in an increasing number of theaters around the world. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) interference, through jamming or spoofing, is no longer a rare edge case confined to sci-fi threat assessments or classified military briefings. It has become part of the operational environment in and around modern conflict zones, and it is creeping into civilian areas at an alarming rate.

The world's growing reliance on GPS-dependent systems is both a marvel and a vulnerability. Precision agriculture, autonomous delivery, maritime navigation, critical infrastructure, and military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) all rest on the assumption that the signal will be there. When it isn't, systems crash, missions fail, and trust in autonomy collapses.

infiniDome was built to stop that from happening. The company’s significance becomes clear only when you understand the gap it was designed to fill, and the startling ease with which that gap could be exposed.

The $30 Wake-Up Call

The origin story of infiniDome begins with a curious purchase and a moment of quiet horror.

Omer Sharar, infiniDome's CEO, had spent years building tailored deep-tech solutions in the GPS and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) space. He knew the technology intimately, but the day he realized how easy purchasing a GPS jammer online is, he realized the imminent danger cheap jammers can pose to UAVs.

With less than thirty dollars, Omer purchased a handheld, cellphone-sized jammer. The jammer was able to completely kill the GPS signal on his phone, his car and a ten-thousand-dollar GPS-based timing server he was testing for a customer. Everything was wiped out instantly and undetected.

The solutions that did exist for strengthening GNSS were, almost without exception, out of the question for the vast majority of operators. They were enormous and cost more than a new car. They were classified for military-only use and designed to protect the likes of ten-million-dollar Reaper UAVs and fighter jets. For small commercial drones, delivery systems, precision agriculture platforms, or even mid-tier defense UAVs, these solutions become irrelevant when putting affordability and size, weight and power (SWaP) constraints into the equation.

That was the gap and it affected more than 95% of GNSS-dependent systems worldwide. The systems that couldn’t “afford” the protection.

Realizing the obvious market gap, Omer approached his two co-founders Ehud Sharar, Vice President of Quality, and Moshe Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer. Moshe, with years of experience in the electronic warfare industry from both the attacking side and the defending side, took two full weeks to think it through. Then he came back saying, "I have an idea", and with that, infiniDome was born.

The Problem That Would Have Lingered

The UAV industry is shifting toward mass-produced, cost-effective systems, but interference threats are growing. infiniDome has been pushing the idea that navigation resiliency must scale and must be accessible even for smaller platforms and not only be a prerogative of only the super-high-end ones.

Had infiniDome never been founded, the world would have been left with a very specific, very practical problem. The gap between what autonomous platforms promise and what they can actually deliver in a contested environment.

From UAVs in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) or tactical missions, loitering munitions, robotics, maritime navigation, critical infrastructure, to commercial delivery drones, a lot of industries are building systems that depend on GNSS. Without infiniDome's technology, a huge portion of these systems would have had no practical defense of the GNSS signal they depend on. The result would have cost more lost missions, more crashed systems, more operational uncertainty, and less trust in autonomy overall.

In the commercial world, beyond the immediate danger of drone crashes, GNSS disruptions carry a direct financial and liability impact. Precise agriculture, package delivery, people transportation, and other GNSS-dependent applications would have faced growing risk with no affordable protection on the horizon.

The industry conversation that infiniDome sparked is perhaps one of its most underappreciated contributions. Before infiniDome, the dominant assumption was that GPS protection was a privilege. A feature reserved for the largest, most expensive defense platforms like fighter jets and MQ-9 UAVs. infiniDome challenged that assumption directly, pushing the idea that navigation resilience must scale, and must be accessible even for smaller, more cost-effective platforms.

Programs like the U.S. Department of War's 'Replicator', ‘Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordinance’ (LASSO), and 'Drone Dominance' all center on the idea of small, light, inexpensive UAVs produced in mass quantities. Without protection, these drones are, as Noam Turgman, Marketing and Application Specialist, starkly puts it, 'dead in the air'. Stories from Ukraine and other conflict zones strongly back Noam’s statement.

COVID and the Pivot

No company gets from founding to impact in a straight line, and infiniDome is no exception.

Until 2020, the company was on a promising trajectory, building toward becoming a necessary enabling component for autonomous vehicles. Then COVID hit. Across the automotive industry, all autonomy efforts were either cancelled or indefinitely deferred. The investment ecosystem followed. Any enabling technology in that space, including infiniDome's, was suddenly frozen out.

It was in this environment that infiniDome attempted to raise its seed round. After graduating from DRIVE TLV, an automotive accelerator, they approached Next Gear Ventures, the venture capital firm behind it and specifically Tal Cohen, the Founding Partner at Drive and Next Gear Ventures. After almost six months of deep diligence into the team and the technology, Tal asked Omer where he expected his company’s solutions were needed. Not “in the future” but TOMORROW.

Survival often requires the courage to admit where you are actually needed, even when that answer is different from where you started. The honest answer was not automotive or Homeland Security. It was Unmanned Aerial Defense.

That moment of clarity forced a pivot, rebuilding the entire business plan around the defense and UAV sector. It was the right call. Next Gear Ventures agreed to invest the seed money, and that decision set the company on the path it now walks.

Innovation Under Fire

Testing Against Yourself

One of infiniDome's most telling chapters came from its own country's military.

After October 7th, 2023, infiniDome learned that a product that stands still, no matter how capable it is, will become irrelevant very quickly. Operating in Israel during the war, the team discovered they were not only contending with interference from adversaries like Hamas and Hezbollah. They were also contending with interference generated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) itself.

The IDF was, publicly and necessarily, using jamming and spoofing to neutralize enemy GNSS-guided threats. That same interference was degrading the performance of IDF's own drones. Thus, infiniDome's products, operating in this environment, were being tested against one of the most sophisticated interference environments on earth.

The company's response was to stop ongoing work entirely, send the R&D and Applications teams to the southern, eastern, and northern borders to record the over-the-air environment in real time, and return to build genuine, rigorous, repeatable testing capability inhouse.

On their roof and in their lab, infiniDome built a fully automated testing system capable of running new hardware and software versions continuously for 72 hours straight, testing not just for performance, but for stability and repeatability against the latest interference capabilities they learned from the field. Initially, from recordings and reports in and around Israel, and then from collected data from around the world.

With every new product or version released from the company, the team at infiniDome and their customers know it has been tested against the latest and greatest capabilities.

The Silent Intelligence

There is a silent innovation buried inside infiniDome's products that rarely gets the spotlight it deserves.

The SunStone and Aura anti-jamming modules do more than protect the GNSS signals. They also function as sophisticated Electronic Warfare sensors on every UAV in a customer's fleet. 

Through real-time data output, operators can transform what looks like a passive defensive component into a source of active strategic intelligence, feeding into command and control systems, generating real-time heat maps of interference threats, and dramatically enhancing situational awareness at scale.

Every drone protected by infiniDome is also a sensor in an intelligence network. That is a capability that took years to perfect and is still not widely understood.

Saying Yes Over a No

The maritime industry is, by any measure, a difficult one to enter. It is an old industry with deeply entrenched fully integrated systems and very traditional suppliers. Disruption is hard. Change is slow. The barriers to entry are high.

But through the influence of infiniDome's chairman, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Nitzan Shaked, who was Head of Material Command at the Israeli Navy, the company was able to forge a partnership with TRENZ, a Maritime Pilot system company based in Germany. Together, they created a joint solution for the maritime sector that could potentially deploy thousands of ships in the coming years, enabling safe piloting in bays and contested maritime environments.

What looked like an industry to avoid has become a compelling use case and now part of the company's forward-looking pitch. The hardest doors to open are often the most worthwhile ones and that lesson sums up infiniDome’s relationship with maritime protection.

The Culture and the Roots

infiniDome’s culture is at the core of its ideology as an institution. One of the many inspiring stories coming from infiniDome’s history is a week where the R&D team and their support staff worked 24 hours to create the ‘Alpha’ demo of one of their earlier products. What the firm labels as a ‘last minute miracle’ enabled them to show the feasibility of their flagship products to US Army and one of Israel’s largest prime defense contractors, thanks to Yoav Many, Vice-President, R&D, and Amir Rabinovitz, Vice-President of Customers and Products. That “Hail Marry” operation helped the company establish its first project with the US government and helped close one of the company’s biggest customers to date.

What the World Would Have Missed

So what would have been lost if infiniDome had never existed?

The most obvious answer is practical. Without infiniDome's technology, the overwhelming majority of GNSS-dependent systems like small commercial drones, mid-tier defense platforms, maritime vessels, agricultural systems and others would still have had no real defense against interference. They would have remained vulnerable to a thirty-dollar jammer. The promise of autonomy would have continued to outpace the reality of resilience.

But the less obvious answer may be more important. What infiniDome gave the world is a fundamental shift in how the industry thinks about GPS protection. The assumption that resilience was a luxury for the few has been challenged, and increasingly replaced, by the understanding that it is an operational requirement for the many.

Noam’s advice to newcomers in the space is to ‘build for the field, not the brochure.’ GNSS resilience is not a feature, it’s an operational requirement. infiniDome believes the only way to get it right is to test in realistic conditions, listen obsessively to customers, and accept that ‘edge cases’ are the main case now.

The industry is now asking how anti-jamming protection can be integrated into their attractable drones. That question did not exist before infiniDome pushed it into the room.