Mauch & Partner designs, staffs, and moderates defense advisory boards as independent, non-executive advisory bodies for security and defense-related issues.
A Defense Advisory Board is a strategic advisory body that supports management, shareholders, or program managers with external expertise.
Unlike supervisory boards or formal advisory boards, a Defense Advisory Board has no decision-making, directive, or control powers, but only provides strategic recommendations.
Defense Advisory Boards are used in particular when:
- Programs have a high political, regulatory, or security policy relevance,
- Decisions must be made under increased uncertainty,
- Industrial, regulatory, and financing logics must be interlinked.
Typical tasks
- Strategic classification of geopolitical and security policy conditions
- Assessment of military capability requirements (capability-driven view)
- Industry and technology assessment (land, air, sea, ammunition, dual-use)
- Sparring on investment, location, and partnership decisions
- Advice on governance, compliance, and eligibility for public funding
- Composition & working methods
Defense Advisory Boards are set up on a situational, project-specific, and temporary basis.
The members include:
former military leaders and commanders,
former decision-makers from procurement and armaments organizations,
industry and technology experts with many years of defense experience.
Principle: independent – advisory – non-executive.