Service Areas

CAPABILITIES

Five integrated service areas built from two decades of practitioner experience — not theoretical frameworks. Every engagement is supported by direct operational, policy, and acquisition knowledge.

Counter-UAS Strategy & Integration

From threat characterization to kill chain integration — across the full C-UAS spectrum.

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Terminal Defense Solutions offers unmatched C-UAS advisory depth, rooted in authoring the foundational report to Congress on C-UAS capability gaps while serving on the Joint Staff at J8/JIAMDO. From threat characterization and system selection through acquisition strategy, integration planning, and operational employment, this service covers the full kill chain.

C-UAS threat environment analysis and system requirements definition

Kill chain architecture design: detect, track, identify, engage, assess

Acquisition strategy development including OTA, LPTA, and FAR-based approaches

Integration advisory for FS-LIDS, M-SHORAD, FAAD C2, and emerging systems

Policy gap analysis and Congressional/OSD engagement strategy

Industry positioning support for companies entering the C-UAS market

J8/JIAMDO C-UAS Report to Congress Black Dart FS-LIDS M-SHORAD FAAD C2 MAVEN

Integrated Air & Missile Defense

Architecture, layered defense planning, and C2 design across the full threat spectrum.

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Comprehensive IAMD advisory spanning system architecture, sensor-to-shooter integration, C2 network design, and operational employment. Grounded in Joint Staff policy development, CENTCOM AOR war planning, and direct operational advisory that contributed to the defense against over 2,000 aerial threats during active combat operations.

IAMD architecture design for theater and homeland defense missions

Layered defense planning integrating THAAD, Patriot, and short-range systems

C2 network design and IBCS integration advisory

Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense (JTAMD) planning and board facilitation

Operational planning support for CENTCOM and partner nation IAMD staffs

Force protection planning for missile defense activities

THAAD Patriot IBCS JTAMD Operation Epic Fury CENTCOM C4ISR

Procurement & Acquisition Advisory

Both sides of the requirements table — government process fluency meets industry positioning.

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A rare combination: deep JCIDS process experience on the government requirements side, paired with active FMS case management at scale. This dual perspective enables advisory that is genuinely useful to both government clients navigating the acquisition system and industry clients seeking to understand how requirements are generated, validated, and translated into contracts.

JCIDS process support: ICD, CDD, and CPD development and staffing

DOTmLPF-P analysis and requirements traceability

Defense Acquisition System (DAS) milestone planning and review preparation

OTA transaction strategy and agreement structure advisory

Industry market positioning and government requirements alignment

Capabilities statement development and BD strategy for IAMD/C-UAS market entry

JCIDS DOTmLPF-P DAS OTA FCB DSCA P-FCB

Training, Exercises & War Gaming

Designing and executing the scenarios that certify staffs for combat.

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Scenario design, Red Team leadership, and exercise facilitation for IAMD and C-UAS environments. Built on direct experience planning and executing exercises that certified ARCENT staff for combat operations, leading Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Boards, and serving as Red Team Lead for CENTCOM war plans. Increasingly integrating AI-enabled analytical tools for enhanced wargaming fidelity.

IAMD and C-UAS tabletop exercise design and facilitation

Red Team leadership for IAMD scenario stress-testing and vulnerability identification

Staff exercise planning using Joint Planning Process and MDMP frameworks

OPFOR design for realistic aerial threat representation

After-action review facilitation and lessons-learned integration

AI-enabled analytical support using MAVEN and similar platforms

Red Team Lead MDMP Joint Planning Process TPFDD MAVEN OPT Lead

FMS & Security Cooperation

Partner nation IAMD acquisition from case initiation through system fielding.

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The most differentiated service offering in the Terminal Defense Solutions portfolio. Active management of a $35B+ FMS portfolio spanning 14 cases, with direct senior-level advisory to one of the most complex IAMD partner nations in the world. This is a service that virtually no commercial advisor can match from a credentialed practitioner standpoint — and the Gulf region's IAMD modernization programs make it exceptionally timely.

FMS case strategy, structuring, and lifecycle management advisory

DSCA process navigation and Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) strategy

Partner nation IAMD capability assessment and acquisition roadmap development

Security cooperation plan design and implementation oversight

Oversight, compliance, and ITAR/EAR regulatory adherence advisory

Industry positioning for FMS prime and subcontract opportunities in IAMD markets

$35B+ Portfolio 14 FMS Cases DSCA USMTM RSADF ITAR/EAR THAAD Fielding

How We Engage

The Advisory Approach

Every engagement is scoped precisely, executed with discretion, and delivered with the clarity that senior decision-makers require.

Define

Initial consultation to scope the problem set, identify the client's actual need versus stated need, and determine whether an engagement is mutually appropriate. Discretion is foundational at this stage.

Analyze

Structured analysis drawing on two decades of practitioner experience. This is not literature review — it is the application of institutional knowledge to specific client problems, informed by current operational and policy context.

Deliver

Findings and recommendations delivered in the format that serves the client: written analysis, executive briefing, workshop facilitation, or embedded advisory. Brevity and precision over volume. No filler.