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Wrap Technologies profile

By Jonathan Teplitsky · reviewed against primary sources · updated August 24, 2026.

Wrap Technologies is a small, publicly traded public-safety technology company whose core revenue comes from its non-lethal BolaWrap restraint device, and whose WrapShield platform added a laser-based counter-drone capability built with Frenel Imaging in August 2026.

What Wrap Technologies does

Wrap Technologies sells non-lethal public-safety and defense technology built around three product lines. The BolaWrap 150 remote restraint device and the WrapReality and WrapTactics training programs are the older two. The newer WrapShield platform, launched in July 2026, is meant to detect a threat, decide how to respond, and carry out a proportionate, non-lethal action. BolaWrap remains Wrap Technologies' largest disclosed revenue source. Wrap Technologies reported $2.1 million in second-quarter 2026 revenue, up 103% year over year, driven mainly by BolaWrap sales rather than by WrapShield. The counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) piece of WrapShield started with the PAN-DA and 1KC Kinetic Anti-Drone Cassette interception products, plus a thermal-polarimetric detection and tracking sensor licensed from Frenel Imaging. On August 24, 2026, Wrap Technologies announced an expanded relationship with Frenel Imaging to add laser directed-energy C-UAS technology to WrapShield. The system pairs Frenel's detection sensor with laser effector hardware from a directed-energy manufacturer the release did not name. The disclosed laser family spans roughly 3 kW man-portable, 6 kW vehicle-mounted, and 9 to 12 kW fixed-site configurations. Wrap Technologies is aiming that family at the Department of War, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and tactical law-enforcement counter-drone markets. Reading Wrap Technologies as a counter-drone pure-play would overstate the current business. The laser C-UAS capability is a development-stage addition to a company whose reported revenue is overwhelmingly a non-lethal restraint device, not a laser weapon.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

BolaWrap 150 remote restraint device
WrapReality and WrapTactics training
WrapShield public-safety and counter-UAS platform
PAN-DA and 1KC Kinetic Anti-Drone Cassette interception systems

This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.

Wrap Technologies drone lineup

The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.

No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.

Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.

Where Wrap Technologies sits in the value chain

Wrap Technologies is a defense contractor whose unmanned work sits inside a wider defense portfolio, so drone headlines are only one input into results and can be offset — in both directions — by unrelated segments.

Its disclosed activity spans counter-UAS. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand. Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.

How Wrap Technologies' counter-drone push fits its wider business

Wrap Technologies is not a counter-drone company that added other products. It is a non-lethal public-safety device maker that added counter-drone products. The distinction matters because it changes what a WrapShield or laser C-UAS headline should mean to a researcher. BolaWrap sales drove Wrap Technologies' reported second-quarter 2026 revenue growth, and WrapShield, including its counter-UAS interception and detection lines, is still an earlier-stage addition to that base business. A large counter-drone contract would be a meaningful new revenue stream for a company this size, but it would not, on its own, mean the core BolaWrap business has changed.

Who Wrap Technologies competes with in counter-drone laser systems

Wrap Technologies' laser directed-energy C-UAS work places it in a small, mostly larger-company field. Fielded public-company laser counter-drone programs today belong to considerably larger defense contractors: AeroVironment's LOCUST, Lockheed Martin's HELIOS, and RTX's HELWS are each one line inside a much larger business. Wrap Technologies is pursuing the same directed-energy approach at a fraction of those companies' scale, using a partner's detection sensor and an unnamed manufacturer's laser hardware rather than developing laser weapon technology in-house. That makes the commercialization and integration relationship the thing to track, rather than treating Wrap Technologies as a laser-hardware developer in its own right.

What to watch

The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.

Whether the laser directed-energy C-UAS capability disclosed in August 2026 reaches a named pilot, test, or contract with the Department of War, DHS, or a law-enforcement buyer, since the announcement describes an expanded development relationship with Frenel Imaging rather than a signed customer order.
Revenue mix between BolaWrap and WrapShield in future quarterly filings: as of the second quarter of 2026, BolaWrap product sales were the primary driver of Wrap Technologies' reported revenue growth, and a shift toward WrapShield and counter-UAS as the larger share would be a materially different business than the one reflected in current results.
Cash position relative to the pace of WrapShield development. Wrap Technologies raised $12.0 million from institutional investors in August 2026, five days before the Frenel Imaging laser announcement, and a small-cap company funding a directed-energy development program needs to be tracked for dilution and cash runway alongside any capability headline.
Whether the unnamed directed-energy manufacturer building the laser effector in the Frenel Imaging relationship is identified in a later disclosure, since that hardware maker's own production capacity and track record matter as much as Wrap Technologies' commercialization role.

How to research Wrap Technologies

Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.

Research question	Where the answer lives	What to look for
How much of this is really drones?	Segment tables in the annual filing	Whether unmanned systems are reported as their own segment or buried inside a larger one.
Is the revenue repeatable?	Revenue-recognition policy and backlog discussion	Recurring sustainment, services, or subscription language versus one-time hardware sales.
Is a win real money?	Official DoD contract announcements	Contract type, awarding command, and whether the amount announced is obligated or a ceiling.
Can the balance sheet fund the plan?	Liquidity discussion and share-count disclosure	Dilution history and cash runway relative to the manufacturing scale-up being promised.

Wrap Technologies' own investor relations press release page and the accompanying Form 8-K exhibits on SEC EDGAR are the primary sources for both the WrapShield launch and the August 2026 Frenel Imaging laser expansion. The laser release names configuration power levels but does not name the directed-energy manufacturer building the effector hardware, so treat that detail as undisclosed rather than assumed.
Quarterly revenue and cash figures, including the BolaWrap-versus-WrapShield sales split where disclosed, are in Wrap Technologies' SEC filings. A small-cap company's press-release framing of "momentum" should be checked against the actual reported revenue line before it is treated as a growth confirmation.
For how Wrap Technologies' laser C-UAS work compares with directed-energy programs at larger defense contractors, see this site's anti-drone lasers guide, which names AeroVironment, Lockheed Martin, and RTX as fielded public-company laser C-UAS programs. Wrap Technologies is a newer, development-stage entrant to that same list.

One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the filing before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.

Wrap Technologies FAQ

What does Wrap Technologies do?

Wrap Technologies sells non-lethal public-safety and defense technology built around three product lines.

Is Wrap Technologies publicly traded?

Wrap Technologies trades as WRAP on NASDAQ. Listing status is not a quality signal, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell it.

What should investors watch with Wrap Technologies?

Whether the laser directed-energy C-UAS capability disclosed in August 2026 reaches a named pilot, test, or contract with the Department of War, DHS, or a law-enforcement buyer, since the announcement describes an expanded development relationship with Frenel Imaging rather than a signed customer order.

Where can I research Wrap Technologies directly?

Go to the primary sources: Wrap Technologies investor relations, Wrap Technologies SEC filings. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.

Does Wrap Technologies build the laser hardware in its WrapShield counter-drone system?

No. Wrap Technologies' August 2026 announcement describes an expanded relationship with Frenel Imaging, whose thermal-polarimetric sensor handles detection and tracking, paired with laser effector hardware from a separate, unnamed directed-energy manufacturer. Wrap Technologies' role is integrating and commercializing the combined system under the WrapShield brand.

Is counter-drone technology Wrap Technologies' main source of revenue?

Not as of Wrap Technologies' most recently reported results. Wrap Technologies' second-quarter 2026 revenue growth was driven mainly by its non-lethal BolaWrap 150 restraint device. WrapShield and its counter-UAS components are a newer, smaller, and still-developing part of the business.

What is the difference between Wrap Technologies' laser C-UAS work and its existing PAN-DA and 1KC Kinetic Anti-Drone Cassette products?

PAN-DA and the 1KC Kinetic Anti-Drone Cassette are kinetic interception products, meaning they physically capture or strike a drone. The laser directed-energy capability announced in August 2026 is a separate mitigation approach that uses focused light instead of a physical interceptor, and it is being developed, not yet fielded, as of the announcement.