Defense
Technology
& Industrial Base
Mission capability depends on the companies behind it.
What your company builds, provides, or supports contributes to mission capability and readiness. As your role in the defense industrial base grows, so can the scrutiny, requirements, and risks surrounding your business.
Presage Global acts as your external risk office, connecting intelligence, investigations, cybersecurity, physical security, and strategic advisory to identify risks that may otherwise be evaluated in isolation.
WHO WE ADVISE
Defense technology companies
Established contractors & suppliers
Aerospace, space & cyber businesses
Investors & financial sponsors
Dual-use founders & executives
Boards & corporate development teams
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Vulnerabilities rarely exist in isolation
Here’s what that can look like:
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A cyber intrusion becomes an intellectual property loss
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An investor or business partner becomes a foreign influence concern
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A public record reveals a facility, executive, or program.
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A supplier creates operational dependency or security concern.
We detect and connect those risks before an adversary does and give you a detailed plan of action to close the gaps.
Technology
Innovation expands capability, which also expands the potential attack area around intellectual property, data, facilities, and key people.
Trust
Every investor, supplier, hire, and strategic partner has the potential to introduce hidden risks in ownership, influence, integrity, access, and control.
Dependency
Supplier concentration, limited capacity, opaque subcontracting, and single-source dependencies can create vulnerabilities well beyond the immediate supplier.
Visibility
Growth can make a company, its technology, and its people more visible to adversaries, activists, competitors, cyber actors, and others seeking access, information, or influence.
Enterprise Security
Assessment (ESA)
One engagement across every seam.
THE CORE ENGAGEMENT
One company facility.
Your executive team.
Eight connected assessments.
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Foreign adversary threat assessment
Who has reason to be interested in your company?
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Facility physical security
Do the protections at your site work in practice?
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Privacy Balance Sheets
What do adversaries know about your executives?
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Technical surveillance countermeasures
Are sensitive conversations exposed to surveillance?
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Governance review
Who owns the risk, and who makes the next decision?
04
Facility cybersecurity
How exposed are the systems your facility relies on?
06
Personnel and access review
What happens to access when people join, stay, or leave?
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Technology and information protection
Where does your technology live, and who can reach it?
Where we help
One risk strategy.
Every critical exposure.
We can begin with a specific concern or assess risk more broadly across the enterprise. Every engagement is tailored to your operating environment and priorities, with findings evaluated across our 10 Domains of Risk framework to identify where exposures connect.
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Privacy & Digital Exposure
See your exposure through the eyes of an adversary. We uncover exposed public data, breached records, and digital breadcrumbs, then quietly and quickly reduce your footprint.
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Physical Security & Executive Protection
Discreet protection designed around your life. We assess residences, offices, and travel, then deliver executive protection, TSCM, event security, and threat management.
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Cybersecurity & AI Security
We evaluate how your organization actually uses devices, networks, cloud platforms, and AI, identify your real exposure, and turn it into a prioritized roadmap for leadership.
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Strategic Intelligence &
Geopolitical Risk
Intelligence that informs strategy, not just diligence. Navigate the geopolitical, regulatory, and competitive uncertainty behind market entry, investment, and expansion.
From isolated signals to decision advantage.
Traditional security treats each problem as a separate lane. Presage Global's Ten Domains of Risk provides a framework for understanding how one exposure can move through the enterprise,then build a response around the real threat, not the nearest product.
Engagements built for consequential moments.
No abstract maturity model. No oversized transformation program. We turn intelligence into a clear view of exposure, a prioritized course of action, and accountable support through implementation.
Representative engagements
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Market-entry and geopolitical risk assessments
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Partner, counterparty, and key-hire diligence
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Pre-transaction and investment risk assessments
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Supply-chain exposure and dependency mapping
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Cyber, privacy, and digital vulnerability assessments
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Board briefings, red teams, and scenario workshops
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Insider-risk and security program design
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Executive, facility, travel, and event security plans
Diagnosis-first
We start with the situation, not a product.
Senior-led
Experienced practitioners stay close to the work.
Discreet
Need-to-know execution for sensitive environments.
Fluent in the systems, markets, and relationships that shape modern defense.
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Strategic intelligence & geopolitical risk
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Space, sensing & geospatial
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Autonomy, Robotics, and Drones
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C4ISR & mission systems
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Advanced manufacturing
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Critical components & materials
Clear intelligence.
Quiet execution.
One accountable partner.
Presage Global’s practitioners come from intelligence, investigations, law enforcement, executive protection, cybersecurity, and enterprise leadership. We understand how sophisticated actors think, and how high-consequence decisions get made.
“We don't sell fear. We help clients see clearly, decide confidently, and protect what matters.”
Frequently asked questions
Defense technology & industrial base advisory
The defense industrial base, or DIB, is the worldwide network of public and private organizations that research, design, produce, deliver, and sustain the systems, components, software, materials, and services required for national defense. It includes major contractors, emerging technology companies, specialized manufacturers, subcontractors, investors, and supporting service providers.
We advise defense technology founders and executives, established contractors and suppliers, boards, investors, and corporate development teams. Our work is relevant across aerospace, space, cyber, autonomy, mission systems, advanced manufacturing, and other dual-use or national-security technologies.
We do not sell technology platforms or run implementation programs designed around a product. We begin with the decision, exposure, or concern that is unique to your organization. Then, we combine intelligence, investigations, cybersecurity, physical security, and strategic advisory to show how your risks connect, and what leadership should do next.
Yes. Many of our relationships begin with a focused question about a partner, market, transaction, key hire, cyber exposure, supply-chain dependency, or executive threat. We can start with a single diagnostic and scale into an ongoing external risk office as your needs evolve.
Yes. Discretion is central to our work. We scope sensitive engagements around the client's decision timeline, information constraints, operating environment, and need-to-know requirements.
When should a company begin evaluating its DIB risk posture?
Ideally, before a specific requirement, transaction, or incident forces the issue. Common inflection points include pursuing government work, raising capital, adding investors or strategic partners, entering a transaction, scaling production, or supporting technology infrastructure with increasing national security relevance.