
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.
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.

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.

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