The best drone defence isn't the most expensive one. It's knowing the threats you realistically face and having the training and procedures to respond. We assess your site against what we've seen in the field, bring the technical expertise, and train your team on what matters, so they can stay focused on running your operation. For ports, utilities, industrial sites, and major events.
Explore our capabilitiesFour services, one methodical approach, from first assessment to response.
Combine hands-on drone operations, Canadian airspace and regulatory expertise, and geospatial analysis to test credible incursion scenarios. Identify exposed assets, plausible launch and approach areas, detection blind spots, and response constraints, then rank the measures that will reduce risk at the site.
Deliverable:Prioritized site risk brief
Apply knowledge of the Radiocommunication Act, Aeronautics Act, Canadian Aviation Regulations, applicable privacy laws, and airspace classifications and restrictions to inform practical drone security decisions.
Deliverable:Regulatory and airspace decision brief
Recommend a practical, compliant path to drone detection at a site or event. Assess sensor coverage and control-link protocols, which signal data may lawfully be collected, used, and shared, and whether a system can help locate a potential drone operator in real time. Define how observations are documented and preserved to support regulatory or police investigations.
Deliverable:Detection requirements and implementation roadmap
Turn drone detections into a mapped assessment of an incursion, the exposure it created, and the response gaps it revealed. Receive clear findings and prioritized actions to protect staff and critical assets.
Explore the assessmentDeliverable:Drone Incursion Assessment
A 2-minute check most critical infrastructure operators haven't done yet. No email required.
A drone alert tells you something was detected. A Drone Incursion Assessment establishes what can be learned from the available record, what the event exposed, and what the site can do next. Red Element brings specialized drone security and geospatial expertise to the analysis.
The result is a mapped, decision-ready account that distinguishes supported findings from assumptions and makes uncertainty visible.
A clear visual account of where and when activity occurred, grounded in the available record.
Identify affected staff, assets, and operations, along with gaps in awareness or response.
Document findings and confidence limits, with prioritized steps to improve detection, procedures, and the site’s response CONOPS.
The assessment is scoped to the available data. Where a record is incomplete, we identify what cannot be concluded and what the site should capture during the next event.
For ports, bridges, power facilities, and industrial sites, long-term airspace security needs a plan that fits the site’s operations, legal authorities, and local airspace. Red Element develops site-specific drone detection and response concepts of operations (CONOPS) that align teams and guide coordination with the appropriate authorities.
A consistent plan helps owners document activity, make targeted investments, and pursue stronger protective measures where justified.
Every engagement follows the same path: understand the site, test it against realistic scenarios, then shape a response proportionate to the risk. That work exposes blind spots a technology demonstration may miss and defines what detection and response must actually accomplish.
Define the assets, operations, stakeholders, and airspace context.
Map plausible scenarios and identify the gaps that affect decisions.
Develop proportionate requirements, options, and next steps.
Red Element draws on Canadian military service, federal civil aviation policy and public safety, technical counter-drone program evaluation, and enterprise geomatics drone operations. This experience includes assessing counter-drone detection and mitigation technologies to inform decisions about their use in Canada. It also includes participation by invitation in domestic and international counter-drone sandbox exercises, opportunities available to only a select group of security professionals.
That work also includes real-time drone monitoring and coordination for special events, systems training, and site-specific drone detection and response concepts of operations (CONOPS) for critical infrastructure.
Tell us about your site, event, or recent drone activity. We’ll reply by email within two business days to arrange a short, confidential call.