Full Stack Defense Advisors gives defense technology companies and program teams an operator's judgment on electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and positioning, navigation, and timing, from first concept to fielded capability.
Four convictions about what separates electronic warfare that gets fielded from electronic warfare that gets shelved, and what we do with each one when we work on your product.
The threat changes between deployments, sometimes between missions. A product that needs a depot cycle to add a waveform, a technique, or a new signal of interest loses to one built on a software-defined radio with the toolchain to push the change on the fly. Reconfigurability is a requirement, not a feature.
A system only one trained operator can run stops being used when that operator moves on. Soldiers reach for the tool that is quick to learn, works the way they expect, and survives the field. Time to train belongs in the design with the same weight as sensitivity or range.
EW wins when it hands a command team a survivability picture they can read at a glance and a decision they can make faster. If the system cannot show the commander what it is protecting them from and what action it opens up, the capability stays invisible and the budget follows.
EW, SIGINT, and PNT are fought together in a contested, GPS-denied environment, and separate boxes leave the unit to do the integration under fire. Soldier feedback changes a product most before the design is locked, so put the prototype in front of operators before the requirement is written.
Senior, hands-on support for companies building EW, SIGINT, and PNT capability and for the program teams that buy it.
Fractional BD leadership that builds pipeline, qualifies opportunities, and puts EW, SIGINT, and PNT products in front of the right programs.
Cleared EW and PNT expertise for program teams, experiments, and test events. An operator at the table when the design decisions get made.
A direct read on what operators will use, where a product fits in the force, and what to fix before a demonstration.
Technical narratives in the customer's language, written by someone who has read them from the government side.
Floor representation, meeting setup, and the written follow-up that turns a booth conversation into a qualified pursuit.
Planning and on-site support for soldier touchpoints and test events, including what to measure and how to turn the results into requirements.
The name is the method. One person who has worked every layer of the problem, from the antenna in the field to the signature on the contract.
Many advisors have sold EW. Few have also run it in the field and evaluated it for the Army. That is the view that tells you whether a product will survive first contact with a unit.
Assessing more than 30 systems for the Army shows exactly why products pass or fail in front of soldiers, and most of those reasons are fixable before the demo.
The principal does the work. No hand-off to junior staff, no account team between you and the person with the experience.
Twelve years running electronic warfare for the Army, then the evaluation floor, then industry. The same person on every engagement.
Cody retired from the U.S. Army as a Sergeant First Class after 12 years in electronic warfare, finishing as the senior EW technical authority at the Cyber Battle Lab, Army Futures Command, where he ran EW experimentation, testing, and vendor selection. He then moved to industry and led business development across EW, SIGINT, and PNT, working deals worth more than $250 million and managing a pipeline of more than 100 customers.
He started Full Stack Defense Advisors to help build the EW community, with one mission at the center of every engagement: understand the customer's real requirement, then find the solution that solves it. Done right, that puts better capability in soldiers' hands, and more warfighters make it home.
Off the clock he is a father of two, an avid Florida Gators fan, and happiest outdoors hunting and fishing or on the field playing competitive softball.
Tell us what you are building and who you are trying to put it in front of. First conversation is on us.
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