This week on The Dawn of Autonomy podcast, as part of our “2026 Look Ahead” series sponsored by Carahsoft, we sit down with Yaron Rosen, Executive Chairman of Airwayz.
Yaron brings more than three decades of experience from the Israeli Air Force and Israel’s national cyber leadership, where he helped build large-scale command and control systems for complex, asymmetric domains. Today, he applies those lessons to one of autonomy’s biggest challenges: managing and securing the skies.
Airwayz is redefining unmanned traffic management by moving beyond flight approvals toward AI-driven airspace command and control. Its platform is already operational at scale, managing thousands of concurrent manned and unmanned flights across ports, cities, and national drone programs such as Israel’s INDI initiative.
In this episode, Yaron looks beyond drones as vehicles and focuses on airspace as critical infrastructure. He explains why autonomy can only scale when airspace itself is managed, how lessons from cybersecurity are reshaping aerial operations, and why airspace command and control is becoming unavoidable as we head into 2026.
Tune in for a forward-looking conversation on how the skies are evolving into a new operational domain, and what it will take to keep them safe, scalable, and resilient.
