Capstone National Security & Defense
What Makes Us Different?
From cross-border acquisitions, global expansion, energy security, sanctions risk, tax policy, aerospace regulation, and more, Capstone helps companies and investors navigate the increasingly complex, dynamic, and highly regulated worlds of national security and defense. We do this by combining unparalleled policy analysis and investment acumen to drive revenue, value, and growth.
We provide real-time and forward-looking policy analysis and predictions of legislative developments, executive actions, and international developments that help clients capitalize on new opportunities and avoid hidden challenges on a global scale.
With our broad range of national security and defense capabilities, our unique and varied public policy and industry relationships, and our propensity to go deeper in the weeds than anyone else, we are an ideal partner to help you solve complex national security policy and regulatory challenges.
We Predict Policy,
Quantify Impact,
and Create Strategy.
Our team of policy and investment analysts leverages our deep and diverse global policy subject matter expertise, vast industry knowledge, and our relationships with industry groups, regulators, policymakers, and relevant stakeholders worldwide to analyze the national security risk profile of corporate strategies and potential investments to create actionable best practices that mitigate hidden risks and find novel opportunities.
Capital and Corporate Strategy
- Advise clients on transactions complicated by national security considerations
- Provide global revenue-driving policy-driven strategy
- Idea-driven C-Suite advisory
- Global Industry Analysis
- Consumer patterns and concerns
Policy and Political Analysis
- Provide real-time analysis of key political and policy changes with detailed analysis of industry impact
- International regulatory agency analysis and risk analysis
- Political risk audits
- Geopolitical risk analysis and sanctions review
Case Studies
Capstone has a proven track record of providing in-depth analysis across a wide range of policy and regulatory issues. Our case studies demonstrate our ability to help clients navigate complex policy challenges and develop targeted revenue-driving strategies.
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Our Latest National Security Insights
US Defense and Foreign Policy in a Harris Admin
August 15, 2024 By Elena McGovern, Co-Head of Capstone's National Security Practice A Harris administration’s national security and foreign policy positions would hew closely to Biden’s—namely support for US allies, including Ukraine against Russia, and continued...
Emerging National Security Opportunities, Policy Shifts, and Chinese Consensus
August 5, 2024 *As we reach the year’s midpoint, Capstone is revisiting our sector 2024 predictions and looking ahead to the second half of 2024. President Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race has not only heightened the intensity of the election...
For Every Action, an Equal Reaction: Renewed China Trade Conflict and the Likely Chinese Response
May 6, 2024 By Andrew Gier, Capstone trade analyst When it comes to China trade policy, President Biden’s time in office has been less turbulent than his predecessor. While he has sought to address Chinese competition in key strategic areas through things like export...
In the News
Newsweek: Want to Help Taiwan? Support a Muscular Japan | Opinion
The New Republic: Congress Weighs the Consequences of Banning Russian Oil
TIME: Ukraine’s Conflict Has Rippled All the Way to the Arctic Circle
“I would not put it past [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to now view the Arctic as another avenue for conflict, and one that will allow him to flex his muscles,” says Daniel Silverberg, a managing director for the Washington, D.C.-based policy strategy consultancy Capstone.
The Atlantic: Biden Was Right
In 2017, I arrived at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation. Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles away, safety concerns necessitated our helicoptering from a recently constructed multimillion-dollar transit facility instead of traveling by road.
The Hill: The controversial Iron Dome vote masks the GOP’s debt ceiling strategy
There has been intense hand-wringing about how a handful of Democratic members of Congress last week caused a delay on a vote to suspend the debt ceiling and fund the government because the original bill included funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system for Israel.
