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# USAF Sales Executive - DoD at D-Fend Solutions

- **Company:** D-Fend Solutions
- **Location:** Mclean, VA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/d-fendsolutions/cef11860-ffca-43b7-baf2-078c703ae075

## Job description

Join D-Fend Solutions — where technology meets purpose. As the global leader in cyber-takeover counter-drone technology, we develop advanced solutions that keep airspaces safe from evolving drone threats. Our team — including veterans of elite military tech units — pushes boundaries every day to deliver smarter, faster, and safer protection for customers worldwide. If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technology, real-world impact, and working in a collaborative, high-energy environment — we’d love to have you on board. Become a D-Fender. Shape the future of airspace security.

## Overview

We are seeking an experienced sales executive to join our growing North American team. This position is located in DC and will play a key role in our fast-growing start-up and assist in expanding our business in the DOD, specifically the Air Force (Navy/USMC). The successful candidate will be responsible for discovering, pursuing and closing new sales prospects across all sectors and building and maintaining a strong customer base in these sectors.

Specific Duties and Activities:

- Sells our advanced solutions by establishing contact with major DOD USAF (USN/USMC) and system integrator partners, leverages existing and/or develops new relationships with prospects.
- Builds, grows, validates, and maintains a pipeline of identified and qualified opportunities.
- Drives deals to closure and upsells new capabilities to existing customers.
- Maintains relationships with customers by providing support, information, and guidance on current and emerging capabilities within the company
- Identifies current on industry trends, market activities, customer needs, and competitors.
- Prepares periodic reports as will be defined and quarterly business review presentations to management.
- Maintains accurate and validated knowledge of potential customers standards, guidelines, policies, and technology initiatives.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge
- Represents companies at industry-related events, attends relevant conferences and networking events.
- Actively seeks out new sales opportunities through cold calling, leveraging existing networks, and the use of social media and develops effective channels to support sales activities.

Requirements:

- The location of this position is in DC
- Strong relationships within the USAF (USN/USMC) CUAS ecosystem.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong ability to lead sales engagements and meetings.
- At least 7 years experience successfully executing & closing sales campaigns in relevant markets.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize efforts, and adjust quickly.
- Ability to travel frequently (~50%)

## About D-Fend Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: D-Fend Solutions is the leading provider of RF cyber-driven, non-kinetic, AI-enhanced counter-drone takeover technology that detects, takes over, and safely lands rogue drones in sensitive environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded)
- **Headquarters**: Ra'anana, Israel (with presence in the US, UK, and Japan)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Counter-drone / Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) defense technology; classified under Defense and Space Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2G and B2B — military, homeland security, law enforcement, airports, prisons, critical infrastructure operators, and major event organizers
- **Mission**: "To lead in providing the most advanced technology and solutions to overcome rogue drone threats in our customers' most sensitive environments and airspace, in a controlled manner that enables continuity." [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **EnforceAir**: Core counter-drone system that autonomously executes RF cyber-takeovers of rogue drones. It detects, locates, and identifies threats in protected airspace, then neutralizes them via non-kinetic, non-jamming RF takeover for safe landings and controlled outcomes. Deployable as a standalone, multilayer, or integrated system, and enhanced with AI capabilities. [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $65M across 4 rounds — Seed (Nov 2017), Series A ($6M, May 2018), Series B ($28M, Sep 2019), and Series C ($31M, Dec 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Israel Growth Partners (led Series C), Claridge Israel (led Series B); LinkedIn company data lists Motorola Solutions, Inc. as parent company
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 193 employees (+25.1% YoY, +45 people); workforce distributed across 8 countries including Israel, US, Canada, Netherlands, and Singapore; hundreds of deployments worldwide; designated best-in-class and deployed by top-tier U.S. and international government agencies, major international airports, and large-scale events [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/d-fend-solutions)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category pioneer**: Creator of the RF Cyber Takeover counter-drone category — a non-kinetic, non-jamming approach that avoids collateral damage and operational disruption, unlike kinetic or jamming alternatives
- **Field-proven credibility**: Chosen as best-in-class by military, federal law enforcement, and homeland security units, plus major international airports and VIP protection details
- **AI-enhanced detection**: Combines RF cyber technology with AI to autonomously detect, prioritize, and mitigate drone threats
- **Multi-disciplinary R&D**: Engineering team includes personnel from elite military intelligence technology units, enabling deep expertise in both cyber and drone domains [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/about-us/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Staying ahead of emerging threats**: Continuously innovating to counter next-generation drone technologies and evolving tactics
- **Sector expansion**: Growing across military, public safety, airport, prison, major event, and critical infrastructure markets
- **Next-generation development**: Proactively building capabilities for future drone threats, with a risk-based approach that analyzes drone prevalence, payload capacity, and range [d-fendsolutions.com](https://d-fendsolutions.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly protect sensitive environments — from forward-operating bases and borders to stadiums and airports — from rogue drone threats
- **Elite technical culture**: R&D team draws from elite military intelligence technology units, with specialized expertise across RF, hardware, system engineering, and drone operations
- **Global reach**: Distributed team across 8 countries, with an on-site presence in Ra'anana, Israel, and offices in the US, UK, and Japan
- **Current openings** (27 total

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