United States  ·  Europe  ·  Latin America

Complexity is our design language.

Some outcomes require more than analysis.

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.

Geography United States · Europe · Latin America
Approach Selective Engagement · Principal-Led
Precedent Class-Leading Outcomes in Live Competitions
Discretion Absolute
Market Intelligence
March 7, 2026 Peru · Defense Procurement

Peru’s $3.5B Fighter Acquisition Enters Final Phase — Industrial Cooperation Terms Under Active Negotiation

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.

RFG Perspective

Industrial cooperation terms for this program are being negotiated now — not after contract award. At $3.5 billion through FMS, the framework governing what counts, at what rate, and with what compliance timeline is consequential. It was revised by ministerial resolution in February, and RFG has worked within Peru’s defense and industrial institutions through that revision. Firms entering this conversation through intermediaries without direct institutional relationships will find the framework already set when they arrive. Engagements for the active competition window are being accepted now.

May 3–6, 2026  ·  Upcoming U.S. Market Entry

2026 SelectUSA Investment Summit — National Harbor, Maryland

The 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.

April 5, 2026 Austria · Defense Procurement

Austria Opens Eurofighter Successor Evaluation — Up to 36 Aircraft, €6–7 Billion, Industrial Cooperation Requirements to Follow

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 Procurement

Swiss Federal Council Confirms F-35 Fleet at ~30 Aircraft as Patriot Dispute Escalates

The 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 Policy

Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs — Section 122 Replacement Now Faces Its Own Legal Challenge

The 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 Policy

Peru Updates Defense Offset Directive — Transparency and Industrial Capacity at the Core

Peru’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.

January 15, 2026  ·  Active Opportunity Peru · Defense Procurement

U.S. Authorizes $1.5B FMS for Peru’s Callao Naval Base Modernization

Peru’s offset framework is evolving. Whether it applies to a construction program of this type is an open question — but one that needs an answer before submission, not after.

October 23, 2025 Peru · Market Access

Peru Defense Industry Forum Signals Growing Institutional Commitment to Industrial Cooperation

RFG 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 Cooperation

Austria Establishes Inter-Ministerial Taskforce to Develop Defense Industrial Cooperation Framework

Austria’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 Cooperation

GTF Engine MRO Designated as Defense Offset Project in UAE

What 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 Defense

Eurosatory 2026 — Paris

The 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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