Ondas Inc., a NASDAQ-listed defense technology company, announced today that former Mossad Director David Barnea has joined the company as Global President and Chairman, marking a major leadership appointment in the defense sector less than two months after his tenure leading Israel's intelligence agency concluded.
Barnea will join Ondas' senior executive leadership team and support the Company's global expansion, strategic technology development, government and defense relationships, and the business and technological integration. He will work closely with Chairman and CEO Eric Brock, Oshri Lugassy, Co-CEO of Ondas Autonomous Systems, and the leadership teams across Ondas' businesses to advance the Company's strategy of building a unified, AI-enabled, multi-domain defense technology platform.
Barnea brings approximately three decades of national security, intelligence, operational and executive leadership experience. From 2021 to 2026, he served as Director of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, leading the organization through one of the most challenging and operationally intensive periods in its history.
His tenure included regional conflict heightened confrontation with Iran and Hezbollah, complex international hostage negotiations and high-stakes intelligence and security operations across multiple theaters. Barnea was replaced by Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman in June.
Under Barnea's leadership, the Mossad underwent a broad organizational and technological transformation designed to address the rapidly changing requirements of modern intelligence and warfare. The agency strengthened its intelligence, cyber, technological and operational capabilities, accelerated the integration of artificial intelligence and advanced data technologies, and expanded its cooperation with international intelligence agencies and security partners.
Ondas is a NASDAQ-listed company that has spent hundreds of millions acquiring drone, intelligence and autonomous systems companies in an effort to create an integrated defense technology group. The company operates across four segments: Aerial Security, ISR & Persistent Intelligence, Precision Strike and Autonomous Ground Systems.
His responsibilities will include supporting global expansion, defense relationships, technology development, acquisitions and the integration of the company's growing portfolio. Barnea's role will include helping determine how individual businesses can operate together, establishing strategic priorities, strengthening global presence and accelerating development and deployment of integrated solutions for governments and defense organizations around the world.
Barnea said future military advantage would increasingly depend on combining capabilities, stating that "operational advantage increasingly depends on the ability to combine intelligence, artificial intelligence, resilient communications, autonomous platforms and precision capabilities into one coordinated operational environment."
