Complexity is our design language.
Reed-Frank Group operates where defense procurement, government industrial policy, and market entry collide. We do not just provide analysis. We provide alignment.
The firm’s principal developed and delivered a novel application of industrial cooperation frameworks that structured over a billion in credits when skepticism was high and the stakes were higher. That methodology continues to produce value across active mandates and has become the industry benchmark. What others attempt to replicate through massive resource expenditure, we deliver through disciplined, judgment-based positioning. Prior mandates have 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. Value is no longer found in the report. It is found in the read. The advisory model that answers this shift is principal-led, conflict-free, and built on judgment and insider knowledge no platform can replicate.
We do not simply enter markets. We structure the terms of their success.
The mandates that reach RFG rarely fit a single discipline. That is by design.
Peru’s Comptroller review is complete and contract signing is expected imminently, with personnel from the U.S. contender confirmed at the Ministry of Defense for industrial cooperation negotiations in late March. At this contract value through FMS, the obligation is not theoretical. It is already being structured. The framework that governs it was revised by ministerial resolution in February.
May 3–6, 2026 · Upcoming U.S. Market EntryThe premier U.S. event for foreign direct investment. For firms that are well prepared, the Summit compresses months of state outreach into days. RFG attends representing a select group of European industrial firms, engaging state principals directly, so clients test real receptivity before committing a team or a decision. Firms interested in the 2026 cohort should reach out now, as it is currently being assembled.
Seven platforms are under evaluation for Austria’s next fighter requirement, with a contract targeted by 2029. At this program scale, the industrial cooperation obligation will be the largest in Austrian history, and the framework that governs it is still being designed. RFG has accompanied a comparable competition to selection and seen how compliance-first industrial cooperation design, structured before award, shapes outcomes that post-award engagement cannot recover.
March 6, 2026 Defense ProcurementThe fleet reduction is confirmed, the supplemental credit is before parliament, and the production slot deadline is Q2 2027. Separately, a cost and delivery dispute over an associated air defense system has frozen payments and introduced uncertainty across Switzerland’s entire U.S. defense portfolio. When programs of this complexity interact, industrial cooperation arrangements often become the last stable instrument with real negotiating value.
February 20, 2026 Trade PolicyThe Court invalidated the mechanism. A replacement was signed the same afternoon. That replacement is now before the courts, with a hearing scheduled for April 10. For companies evaluating a permanent U.S. presence, the lesson is not which statute survives. It is that the underlying trade environment will remain contested regardless. A physical U.S. footprint changes that calculus in ways that tariff rulings cannot.
February 18, 2026 Peru · Offset PolicyPeru’s revised offset directive sets a binding timeline: framework agreements must be signed before contract award on standard procurements, and within 30 days of LOA signature on FMS purchases. Non-compliance carries a 2% monthly penalty. The framework is not aspirational. It is already being enforced.
October 23, 2025 Peru · Market AccessRFG participated as guest of the Swiss-Peruvian Chamber of Commerce, at a forum attended by Peru’s Minister of Defense, the Commander Generals of the armed services, and senior defense industry leadership. Within six weeks, Peru signed a landmark armored vehicle agreement that included a domestic production licensing arrangement. Institutional access at this level is built over time, not arranged at the proposal stage.
July 8, 2025 Austria · Industrial CooperationAustria’s defense budget has doubled since 2020 and is legislatively committed to reach 2% of GDP by 2032. An inter-ministerial taskforce established in July 2025 is now designing the framework that will govern industrial cooperation requirements across that procurement pipeline. The architecture is still being written. For firms entering the Austrian market, and for Austrian industry seeking to position for it, that window is consequential.
February 19, 2025 Industrial CooperationWhat the industry currently views as a novel application of commercial MRO for defense credits is, in fact, a proven discipline. RFG’s principal developed and delivered this structurally identical methodology successfully several years prior, proving the model’s viability before it was replicated elsewhere.
June 15–19, 2026 · Upcoming European DefenseThe global benchmark for land and air-land defense procurement. Every major offset obligation in Europe and Latin America has a connection to this floor. What happens before Eurosatory matters more than what happens during it.
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