Complexity is our design language.
Reed-Frank Group advises industrial companies on strategic growth, with expertise in U.S. aerospace and defense market navigation, strategic partnering, and international industrial cooperation. The firm’s depth lies where commercial expansion, government industrial policy, and defense procurement intersect. The deliverable is not the analysis. It is the position it produces.
The firm’s principal developed and delivered a novel application of industrial cooperation frameworks that structured industrial participation credits exceeding $1 billion under active competitive conditions. That methodology continues to produce value across active mandates and is increasingly recognized in how comparable programs are designed. The principal’s prior program leadership encompassed a contested multinational fighter competition and the simultaneous management of commercial, governmental, and prime contractor stakeholders.
RFG was founded in 2024 at a specific inflection point: the moment when access to powerful analytical tools negated the premium once charged by established advisory firms, and when multi-client conflicts of interest became impossible to ignore. The constraint is not access to information. It is knowing how it will be interpreted by the counterparty before it is presented. The advisory model that answers this shift is principal-led, conflict-free, and built on judgment and perspective developed from within these frameworks at the program level: not just in how they are structured, but in how they are read by the parties they are designed to govern.
Growth Strategy. The less-traveled routes to expansion: new markets, new structures, new partners.
Gateway · U.S. Market Entry. Research, screening, and prioritization of U.S. industrial partners, with introductions and negotiation support for international firms pursuing partnership-led entry. Site selection and establishment strategy where appropriate.
Industrial Cooperation. Where a client’s organic expansion aligns with industrial participation requirements elsewhere, RFG recognizes the connection and brings the parties together around projects with genuine commercial logic of their own.
Clients do not simply enter markets. They enter on structured terms.
The mandates that reach RFG rarely fit a single discipline. That is by design.
Seven aircraft types are now under consideration to replace Austria’s legacy fighter fleet, with a new U.S. candidate added in October. A wider field lengthens evaluation and raises the weight of industrial cooperation offers in differentiating otherwise comparable platforms.
July 27, 2026 Trade PolicyThe temporary surcharge expired July 24 and new Section 301 duties of 10 to 12.5 percent took effect the same day, covering 60 trading partners and nearly all U.S. imports. The mechanism keeps changing; a U.S. footprint is the stable position.
The annual meeting and exposition convenes October 12 to 14 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. For international suppliers, the exposition floor maps U.S. teaming relationships; reading it early shapes where a partnering strategy begins.
November 9–11, 2026 Industrial CooperationThe association’s autumn conference meets November 9 to 11 in Lisbon under the theme of industrial cooperation in a new geopolitical era. Agendas like this show where administrators are heading; the criteria suppliers will face can be read early.
July 20–24, 2026 Europe · Industrial CooperationThe 2026 show drew 141,580 visitors from 136 countries, with 353 firm aircraft orders announced. RFG attended, engaging industrial participation leaders across the European aerospace and defense community. Order books are filling; the industrial commitments behind them are being written now.
June 24, 2026 Switzerland · Defense ProcurementSwitzerland resumed payments for a delayed U.S. ground-based air defense system, frozen since autumn 2025, partly to protect its fighter aircraft procurement. Talks opened with manufacturers in France, Israel, and South Korea on a second system. Every new supplier brings its own industrial cooperation dimension.
May 3–6, 2026 U.S. Market EntryThe summit drew more than 5,500 participants from over 100 markets, with $56 billion in new and planned commitments. RFG was invited to, and attended, a Swiss and Liechtenstein delegation function alongside the summit. For firms weighing U.S. entry, the capital flow has already voted.
March 20, 2026 Switzerland · Industrial CooperationThe 2026 armaments dispatch projects about CHF 1 billion in orders to Swiss companies and CHF 990 million in offset business from foreign procurements, with research institutions among the beneficiaries. The pipeline of obligations is set; the projects that satisfy them are not.
February 27, 2026 Peru · Offset PolicyA February ministerial resolution details two banking modalities: offset projects presented without an underlying procurement contract, and credits generated beyond an obligation. Both remain valid five years, applicable to half of a future obligation. Credit positions can precede competitions.
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