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Forged to Deliver Immediate Impact

Forged to Deliver Immediate ImpactForged to Deliver Immediate ImpactForged to Deliver Immediate Impact

The Future of Competitive Advantage: 

Business Development with AI-Driven Processes 

Let's Get Started

Forged to Deliver Immediate Impact

Forged to Deliver Immediate ImpactForged to Deliver Immediate ImpactForged to Deliver Immediate Impact

The Future of Competitive Advantage: 

Business Development with AI-Driven Processes 

Let's Get Started

Fortress Forge - Our Mission

Fortress Forge LLC empowers defense innovators to conquer complex markets with precision and foresight.  By coupling proprietary AI-driven analytics and strategic intelligence with deep industry experience and relationships, we infuse science into the art of business development - boosting success rate and forging unbreakable partnerships. Our commitment: Deliver mission-critical results to redefine what's possible in an era of rapid change and uncertainty. 

AI-enhanced Services to Forge Success

Market Research

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence

 We transform scattered defense market data into actionable intelligence for better strategic decisions. Focused research, rigorous analysis, and tailored guidance help prioritize pursuits, sharpen go‑to‑market plans, and maximize return on every decision. 

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence

We provide a clear view of the market landscape by with high‑value customer and competitor assessments. These human-source and AI-enabled insights enable you to develop better‑informed, more precise proposals that speak directly to customer needs and competitive realities. 

Strategic/Capture Planning

Business/Relationship Development

Business/Relationship Development

   We enhance strategic and/or capture planning by integrating a holistic market landscape with two decades of industry experience to help your team decide what to pursue, how to win, and when to walk away. This AI‑enhanced approach supports more defensible bid/no‑bid calls, sharper win themes, and tighter alignment between your pipeline, investment strategy, and the evolving defense landscape. 

Business/Relationship Development

Business/Relationship Development

Business/Relationship Development

  We focus on building the right customer, partner, and teammate connections to drive measurable growth. Tailored engagement strategies are crafted to fit your business model and priorities, ensuring every interaction supports long-term opportunity development. This includes end-to-end planning and execution of industry events and tradeshows, from pre-event targeting and outreach to on-site engagement and post-event follow-up that converts contacts into real pipeline. 

The Fortress Forge Difference

Packages Tailored to Fit Your Requirements and Budget

Fortress Forge understands uncertain markets mean risk in hiring a full-time professional, but your business requires the competitive edge to win lucrative defense contracts.  Fortress Forge is an agile firm focused on your company's requirements, respectful of your available resources, providing customized AI-enhanced products and services to maximize your probability of winning (P-win) new business. Whether your customer is the US Government or a defense prime, we can develop a package and provide the expertise to overmatch your competition. 

🥉 Silver: Landscape Awareness

Provides foundational, AI‑enhanced market and competitor monitoring for a defined set of focus areas, giving consistent visibility into the global defense landscape without overextending internal BD resources. It is designed as an entry-level, high‑value package for leadership teams that need trustworthy intelligence and structured reporting, but not yet full strategic co‑development.​

  • Bi‑weekly market landscape reports covering key competitors, programs, and trends.​
  • Monthly data visualization and review to translate complex data into decision‑ready insights.​
  • Principal Consultant time for vetting data quality and providing monthly strategic interpretation.
  • AI Technologist time dedicated to data collection, collation, and report generation. 
  • Customized to meet your company's requirements and budget

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🥇 Gold: Strategic Partnership

Delivers a fractional Chief Strategy Officer and dedicated competitive intelligence capability, combining continuous AI‑enhanced monitoring with senior‑level counsel to drive concrete capture and go‑to‑market decisions across a defined set of focus areas. Optimized for organizations that want not just data, but recurring, decision‑grade insight and co‑developed strategies.

  • Bi‑weekly market landscape reports and strategy calls focused on your priority focus areas.
  • Quarterly comprehensive executive review covering customer budgets and behaviors, partners, competitors, and recommended capture strategies.
  • Principal Consultant time for ongoing strategy, validation of AI outputs, and executive‑level guidance.
  • AI Technologist support for continuous monitoring, deep‑dive analysis, and real‑time alerts. 
  • Customized to meet your company's requirements and budget

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🚀 Platinum: Priority Executive Support

Provides a fully integrated, on‑demand strategic and competitive intelligence capability, pairing intensive AI‑powered analysis with high‑touch executive access to support critical pursuits, decisions, and course corrections across a defined set of focus areas. Built for leadership teams that need rapid response, deep dives, and hands‑on bid and proposal support in addition to continuous reconnaissance.

  • Coverage focus areas, including M&A targets, teammate vetting, and customer deep‑dives.
  • Bi‑weekly market landscape reports and strategy calls, plus a quarterly in‑person executive brief.
  • Dedicated Principal Consultant time for on‑demand executive and high‑value decision support.
  • AI Technologist time for custom AI modeling, advanced analytic frameworks, and real‑time alerts. 
  • Customized to meet your company's requirements and budget

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Additional Services

Additional expertise and AI-enhanced capabilities which can easily be included with any package or built "ala-carte" to precisely meet your requirements and maximize immediate impact to your business. Options include:

  • Customer Relationship Management (Development and Engagement)
  • Partner/Teammate Development and Vetting
  • Short-, Mid-, and Long-Term Strategic and Capture Planning
  • Detailed Competitive Intelligence and SWOT Analysis
  • Budget Analysis
  • Requirements Mapping and Prioritization
  • Concept of Operations (CONOP) Development & Publishing
  • White Paper/Media Release Publishing
  • Industry Event/Tradeshow Representation
  • Comprehensive Tradeshow Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Execution and Follow-Up
  • Brand Positioning and Presentation Decks

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Meet the Team

Brad Herndon, Principal

Brad Herndon, Principal

Brad Herndon, Principal

Brad is Principal at Fortress Forge LLC bringing two decades of business development, planning, and market intelligence to serve your company's defense needs. 


Brad has a BS in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and has worked in business development since retiring from the US Army in 2007.

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Cole Herndon, Partner

Brad Herndon, Principal

Brad Herndon, Principal

Cole is a Partner at Fortress Forge LLC bringing AI and advanced computing skills to enhance our business development, planning, and market intelligence offerings. 


Cole has an AAS in Computer Science and earned a BS in Virtual Reality Design from Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. He has worked in the field since 2022.

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Fortress Forge LLC

Toano, Virginia, USA

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09:00 am – 05:00 pm

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09:00 am – 05:00 pm

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