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Welcome to
DEF River House
This is a physical space to host, curate, and connect across resource communities and to foster and encourage 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.
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.
A Different kind of gathering place. Officials, operators, entrepreneurs, and independents meet here in an unofficial capacity — the Track 1.5 space where candor is possible and rank matters less than the idea. It's where conversations happen that formal channels can't hold.DEF is a different kind of gathering place. Officials, operators, entrepreneurs, and independents meet here in an unofficial capacity — the Track 1.5 space where candor is possible and rank matters less than the idea. It's where conversations happen that formal channels can't hold.
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Join in on the noise-free feedback loops, unfettered ground truth, requisite top cover, and bureaucracy hacking.
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