Innoviz Technologies announced the launch of Perciz, a new defense and homeland security division that is built around the company’s automotive‑grade Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors.
The announcement by the Nasdaq-traded company comes as militaries and security agencies are racing to stock up on counter-unmanned autonomous systems (C-UAS) that can detect, track, and neutralize drones.
Perciz will focus on adapting the existing LiDAR platforms for defense, homeland security, and critical‑infrastructure protection. It will combine LiDAR, machine learning, and real-time perception to help security forces respond to threats more efficiently.
While Innoviz’s automotive-grade platform is in use by several OEMs and industry bodies, Perciz will offer its platform to government agencies, defense contractors, system integrators, and security‑technology partners for perimeter security, critical‑infrastructure protection, C-UAS, autonomous operations, border security, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.
The new division will operate as Innoviz’s brand focused solely on defense and homeland security, supplying LiDAR systems to government agencies, defense contractors, system integrators, and security‑technology partners.
Growing demand
The launch comes amid heightened global attention on counter‑UAS technologies. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, followed by the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7 and the wars that followed, militaries have accelerated investment in sensors capable of detecting small, fast, low‑flying drones that evade radar.
Israel’s defense establishment has also expanded procurement of multi‑layered counter‑UAS systems, and several Israeli companies have announced new detection and interception platforms in recent months.
"Defense and homeland security organizations are confronting a rapidly evolving environment where threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, autonomous, and unpredictable," Omer Keilaf, founder and CEO of Innoviz, said in a press release.
"Perciz was created to help address these challenges by advancing Physical AI technologies that transform how intelligent systems perceive and understand the world around them. Our goal is to provide our centimeter-level 3D positioning to enable security solutions that can operate with greater awareness, precision, and confidence in the most demanding environments,” he added.
“The future of defense is increasingly defined by intelligent systems that can interpret and respond to their environment in real time,” Keilaf said. “Success will depend not only on collecting data, but on providing accurate data that will enhance operational performance.”
Last week, Innoviz announced that it was teaming up with Cogniteam to develop a new counter-drone detection (C-UAS) system aimed at improving detection, classification, and tracking for security systems.
The new solution combines Innoviz’s 3D LiDAR sensors along with Cogniteam’s AI-powered perception and analytics software that allows for more accurate drone detection by the analysis of 3D morphology, motion, flight behavior, and signatures to distinguish between drones and other aerial objects, such as birds, to reduce false alarms.
This new technology builds on more than a year of operational deployments of Cogniteam’s ClearZone platform, together with Innoviz LiDAR, for perimeter protection, critical infrastructure security, and border surveillance.
Innoviz said at the time that the collaboration is intended to help system integrators and security providers deploy accurate drone detection, localization, tracking, and classification systems. Cogniteam developed a 3D analytics engine that analyzes object morphology, motion, flight behavior, and 3D signatures to reduce false alarms and improve threat identification.