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 activate informal networks as a strategic capability.
Welcome To The
DEF RIVER HOUSE
This is a physical space to host, curate, and connect across resource communities and to foster and encourage track 1.5 and 2 conversations.
By invitation, off the record salons, training sessions and weekend experiences hosted at a beautiful retreat-like setting to introduce levity, relaxation, and nature as critical community components within the fabric of national security.
Experience how set and setting and colliding with unlikely people and organizations can spark unconventional relationships, unique capacity and access.
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.
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.
A different kind of gathering place for track 1.5 conversations and convening
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...
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NatSec and policy salons
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Team retreats and curated work sessions
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Policy off-sites
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Mission briefings
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Challenge workshops
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Readiness training retreats
Save Your Spot
MAKE CONTACT
Join in on the noise-free feedback loops, unfettered ground truth, requisite top cover, and bureaucracy hacking.