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NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: The threats confronting law enforcement, military commands and critical infrastructure operators have crossed a threshold. They can no longer be addressed by adding personnel or deploying faster versions of existing equipment. Commercial drones that once required nation-state budgets can now be purchased off a consumer shelf for under $500 and are transforming the public safety landscape. Criminal organizations deploy the devices against border law enforcement, correctional facilities report drone-delivered contraband as a routine operational problem, and Langley Air Force Base, among the most secure military installations in the United States, was forced to halt flight operations by repeated drone incursions for which no adequate nonlethal response protocol existed. The safety-response infrastructure the world was built on is no longer adequate for the threat environment it faces. That gap is the defining public-safety challenge of this decade.

In this context, Wrap Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: WRAP) (Profile) has secured something its counter-drone competitors cannot buy: the ability to detect the drones that have learned to go silent. Through a strategic transaction with Israeli AI-sensing company Frenel Imaging Ltd., WRAP has secured exclusive United States and NATO distribution rights to the physics-based imaging technology that detect threats earlier, orchestrates a response, and acts with proportionate, mission-appropriate action. WRAP has placed that technology at the perception core of WrapShield, its new counter-UAS and autonomous public-safety platform. Counter-UAS is the entry point, with room to grow far beyond that. The market behind it spans domestic law enforcement, allied militaries and critical infrastructure across every NATO nation, set against a defense-technology sector where AeroVironment Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS), Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS) and Red Cat Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RCAT) have drawn investor attention to autonomous and counter-drone systems.

• The fastest-growing drone threats fly with no radio signal, leaving an entire detection industry blind to the platforms that matter most.
• Wrap Technologies has secured exclusive U.S. and NATO rights to a physics-based sensing method that reads a target’s thermal fingerprint, which cannot be jammed, spoofed or switched off.
• Consumer drones now sell for under $500 and can outrun the systems built to stop them, opening a public-safety response gap that hiring alone cannot close.
• Counter-UAS is framed as phase 1 of a multidomain market reaching from the ground into maritime, high-altitude and orbital domains, backed by a certified-agency network built to turn one-time hardware sales into recurring revenue.
• Wrap Technologies has completed a strategic equity investment in Frenel Imaging and secured exclusive distribution rights to the TPiCore(R) technology for the United States and all NATO member nations.

For more information about Wrap Technologies Inc., please visit the Wrap Technologies profile.

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