# Inside a Trillion-Dollar Industry: How the Givati Drone Center Is Positioning Itself for a Potentially Massive Outcome > The Givati Brigade Association has launched a new drone innovation center aimed at competing in the trillion-dollar global defense industry, pairing institutional leadership with a field-tested development model built around live battlefield data. - Source: Foreign Time - Canonical URL: https://foreigntime.com/article/givati-drone-center-trillion-dollar-defense-industry - Author: Foreign Time Newsroom - Section: Security - Published: 2026-09-03T18:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-03T18:30:00.000Z - Tags: Security, Israel, Defense, Drones, Technology --- The global defense industry is now measured in the trillions, and unmanned systems, drones in particular, represent one of its fastest-growing segments. Into that arena steps the Givati Drone Center, a newly launched initiative from the Givati Brigade Association that leadership believes is positioned not just to participate in that growth, but to help define where it goes next. “We are stepping into an industry that is bigger than most people realize, and growing faster than almost any other sector in defense,” said Itzhak Levit, Chairman of the Givati Brigade Association. “When you’re talking about a trillion-dollar market, even a small share of real innovation can translate into an outcome that changes everything, for our soldiers and for the country.” Levit believes the Center’s timing could not be better. As militaries around the world race to modernize their drone capabilities, from surveillance and reconnaissance to logistics and combat support, demand for proven, field-tested innovation has never been higher. “The market wants solutions that actually work in the field, not just in a lab,” Levit said. “That is exactly what we are building.” ## A Model Designed to Compete at Scale Driving the Center’s technical edge is Jessica Zandani, Major Director of the Academy, whose training and development framework was built to produce continuous, field-tested innovation rather than isolated research. Her model combines live battlefield data, hands-on maintenance training, and rapid hardware development through 3D printing, an approach designed to move at the speed the modern defense market demands. “A trillion-dollar industry doesn’t wait for slow innovation,” Zandani said. “It rewards whoever can solve real problems the fastest and prove it works. That’s the standard we built this Center around from day one.” Zandani said the scale of the opportunity is part of what makes the Center’s mission so significant. “We didn’t set out to build something small,” she said. “We set out to build something that could genuinely compete in one of the largest, most important industries in the world, and do it in a way that never loses sight of why we started: protecting soldiers.” ## Where Mission Meets Market Together, Levit and Zandani represent the combination that industry watchers say gives the Center real staying power in a market this size: institutional credibility paired with a fast-moving, field-tested innovation engine. Levit’s decades of leadership provide the stability large-scale opportunities require, while Zandani’s hands-on approach delivers the kind of continuously evolving results that a trillion-dollar industry is actively seeking. “This industry rewards those who can prove real outcomes, not just potential,” Levit said. “We believe we have both, and the more the world sees what this Center produces, the greater that outcome could be.” Zandani agreed that the potential extends far beyond the Center’s original scope. “We built this to save lives first,” she said. “But the reality is, if what we’re doing here can also help position Israel at the center of one of the biggest industries on the planet, that is an outcome worth working toward every single day.” ## A Legacy Institution With Global Ambition The Givati Drone Center operates under the Givati Brigade Association, founded in 1985 by Givati veterans of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence under Major General Itzhak Pundak z”l. What began as a mission to honor fallen soldiers and preserve Givati’s legacy has, under Levit’s leadership and Zandani’s innovation, positioned the Association at the doorstep of one of the largest and most consequential industries in the world. --- Originally published by Foreign Time. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://foreigntime.com/article/givati-drone-center-trillion-dollar-defense-industry.