
Before drones became ordinary, Jaz Banga saw the awkward question hiding above every fence: who belongs in the sky, and what happens when they do not? His answer has taken a decade, a hundred prototypes, and a career-long habit of connecting machines to identity.
Airspace Defense (formerly Airspace Systems) is a Silicon Valley company that secures the low-altitude airspace where drones increasingly operate. Its patented Airspace Spatial platform fuses Remote ID, RF and electronic sensing, radar and AI analytics to detect, identify and track unauthorized drones and their operators at city scale. Founded in 2015 by a team from Apple, Google and Cisco, the company serves public safety agencies, national defense and major enterprises, and its autonomous Interceptor drone is held in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.