Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & National Defense

This is the new world of national security and defense: a world in which tanks and mortars and troops still matter, but in which the real battles begin and end in a digital netherworld of AI, space and satellite navigation, and cyber spoofing. If we want to win the war, we have to be the first to master this emergent new world.

Our Functional Defense Verticals

Sea

Russian nuclear and naval counter-intelligence; NavSys and Aegis innovation; and flight avionics.
Digital PR
Energy

Sustainable jet fuel and wind power leadership; critical infrastructure and grid security and vulnerability analysis.
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Aerospace

Avionics and fuel design, navsys, flight safety, and electronic warfare solutions.
Products
Space

Electronics, software, and services for all phases of space & satellite programs, and the ISS.
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The Need for a Synchronized US: NATO IT Cyber and Architecture View

As the US military expands into European theatre action with the Ukraine war, and as Russian and PRC Chinese sanctions are ordered for US and NATO nations, the demarcation between US and allied critical infrastructure is blurred. NATO was the first to recognize and formalize cyber response and protection for blended domains of military and civilian critical infrastructure.

Our work includes SHAPE, SOCOM, EUCOM, UK, and US vulnerability analysis for White House and other leadership; and space, energy, and financial arena intelligence, cyber support, and training. Including agency, vendor, and Big 4 management training, SOC evaluation, and implementation leadership for adjacent arenas and agencies under NIST and US Homeland Security compliance or contracts.

How far up does each nation's airspace extend? Should enemy satellites be allowed to broadcast and listen inside US and NATO airspace? Guide missiles to hit US targets?

MISSILE & AIR DEFENSE

Controlling the new Battlespace by controlling national airspace

In decades past, nations only worried about defending their international sea and land boundaries. And national airspace only extended a little past 15,000 feet, and anything above that was free and open space to facilitate commercial air traffic. But today that's all out the window. Because the deadliest missiles and hypersonic fleets are largely satellite controlled; as is most espionage or listening in by enemies; and so it now matters very much which satellites are allowed to penetrate our national airspace. Either to guide missiles and drones to attack us (or friends), or to listen in, or to confuse our GPS enough to crash cars or commercial jets, or to even get onto home and car phones and other private airways.

Our consulting group has been an early and proactive advocate for limiting national defense vulnerabilities by restricting the orbits and operations of commercial and other military satellites above US airspace.

National Defense Compliance & Strategy

We coach and serve US Military and vendor teams on audit compliance and program review, either as prime for smaller audit or targeted assignments; or through established partnerships with PWC, Booz Allen, Deloitte, or other primes. Our Cyber Ssecurity Audit and Performance Review expertise includes:

DHA and Veterans Administration contracts and performance (up to $5 billion BPO)
DFAS compliance and Regulatory Review (USMC, USN, Joint Operations)
Threat Financial Investigations And Analysis (TFIA), with an emphasis on Russian and Chinese sanctions, supply chain, and mission integrity impact

National Security-led , Commercial Policy Advisory

Do you have a pressing concern, and need for more balanced, actionable insight and risk support?

Should US nations be allowed to stil outsource call center or manufacturing operations to Russian- or Chinese-friendly nations? Or nations housing terrorist cells like ISIS?

This becomes a critical policy decision for US and NATO leadership as Russia and China continue to increase threats of violence against us. Of particular concern are US telecom and other communications companies outsourcing critical personal data and cell phone or satellite tech support and services to nations friendly to both the US, and Russia-China. We help US leadership and mission-critical national security teams articulate, analyze, and address such issues - where solutions must balance US commercial cost of providing services against national security and sanctions concerns, and US jobs concerns.