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More Than Machines...It’s
About Meaningful Connection

Fueling America's National Security revival is about more than reopening forges and stimulating technology transfer and investment.

It’s about reimagining how we forge relationships and weaponize networks.

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Welcome To The

DEF RIVER HOUSE

This is a physical space to host, curate, and connect across resource communities to continue to build and strengthen informal networks as a strategic capability.​

 

By invitation, off the record salons, training sessions and weekend experiences hosted at a beautiful retreat-like setting to introduce levity, relaxation, and nature.

 

Experience how set and setting can enhance problem-solving within the national security ecosystem.

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Take Your Seat at the Table

We are gathering at the dinner table, around the fire, and through shared lived experiences.

Cultivating trust is uniquely unscalable and intimate.

It’s what we do and who we are.

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Mobilizing

Collisions

People

Bringing together diverse, vetted, high-integrity doers to tackle hard national security problems.

It's about creating space for unlikely collisions to spark alliances and disruptive action.

A place for a people-first culture: celebrating creativity and human capital as a strategic advantage.

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ENGAGE

Season one: August - November

Human connectivity and high-trust relationships are imperative to driving critical innovation and change in Natsec. This is a space for analog people, first innovation, and solution engineering.

 

Attendees will include a diverse mix of leaders and practitioners from academia, the military, intelligence community, policy circles, explorers, entrepreneurs and those with frontline operational experience.

Sponsor, join, initiate an event...

  • NatSec and policy salons

  • Team retreats and curated work sessions

  • Policy off-sites

  • Mission briefings

  • Challenge workshops

  • Readiness training retreats

Save Your Spot

  • River House / FAR AWAY PROJECTS / GRILL + CHILL
    River House / FAR AWAY PROJECTS / GRILL + CHILL
    Aug 21, 2025, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Location is TBD
    RSVP for the invitation request. This curated dinner convenes a select group of leaders from tech, defense, and government to engage in candid conversation, marinate in off-the-record topics, and discuss the challenges and opportunities shaping our shared future.
  • River House / Friends + Family
    River House / Friends + Family
    Fri, Aug 29
    Aug 29, 2025, 2:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Location is TBD
    Near DC. Join DEF's close friends and family to launch the DEF River House. We'll celebrate community, friendship, and laughter while enjoying a sunset, meal, and fire. Request a spot by the fire pit to brainstorm content, impact, and collaboration.
  • River House / Unfair Advantage
    River House / Unfair Advantage
    Sat, Sep 06
    Sep 06, 2025, 10:00 AM – 7:30 PM EDT
    Location is TBD
    RSVP for the invitation request. Selected national security founders will connect with senior military leaders in a closed-door session. This all-day event allows you to refine your strategy, streamline access to networks, and innovate a founder-GO collaboration model, revealing rare opportunities.
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MAKE CONTACT

Join in on the noise-free feedback loops, unfettered ground truth, requisite top cover, and bureaucracy hacking.

TEAM HOUSE 

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