SUPPORTING YOUR DEVELOPMENT
IN THE FIELDS DEFENSE & SECURITY

SUPPORTING YOUR DEVELOPMENT
IN THE DEFENSE & SECURITY DOMAINS

Who we are

Dragonfly Partners is a private & independent consulting firm founded in November 2022.

We are specialized in the needs and the security fields within four departements

  • Space
  • Special Forces
  • Cyber
  • Digital

We master an understanding of both defense challenges and operational needs.

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Defense needs

Understanding the needs, strategies, capabilities, equipment and human resources required to meet defense and security challenges.

Ecosystem

Close knowledge of all defense, industrial and institutional players who contribute to the defense and security ecosystem.

Operations

Understanding of the armed forces’ operational frameworks to achieve strategic, operational and tactical objectives in each environments or fields of confrontation, whether separate or intricate.

Technologies

Technology and capability monitoring to ensure a comprehensive vision of the needs in the defense and security sectors.

The founders

Sharing the common observation that there was missing a facilitator to integrate innovative solutions—both civil and military—into the fields of defense and security.

Their combined expertise is aimed at addressing the complex challenges of this evolving sector in an increasingly unpredictable and unstable world.

Maj-Gen (ret) Michel FRIEDLING

  • Former French Space Commander
  • Founder & CEO of Look Up
  • Advisory Board member of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)
  • Auditor of the Institute of Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN)

Gen (ret) André LANATA

  • Former Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Force
  • Former NATO Supreme Commander for Transformation (SACT)
  • Strategic Advisor of The Exploration Company

Laurent-Pierre BACULARD

  • Expert consultant in Strategy, Digital, Innovation, Telecom, Defense & Security
  • Former Vice President of A.T. Kearney

Maj-Gen (ret) Michel FRIEDLING

  • Former French Space Commander
  • Founder & CEO of Look Up
  • Advisory Board member of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)
  • Auditor of the Institute of Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN)

Gen (ret) André LANATA

  • Former Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Force
  • Former NATO Supreme Commander for Transformation (SACT)
  • Strategic Advisor of The Exploration Company

Laurent-Pierre BACULARD

  • Expert consultant in Strategy, Digital, Innovation, Telecom, Defense & Security
  • Former Vice President of A.T. Kearney

Our departments

  1. A mastery of defense challenges, operational needs and solutions mastered
  2. An extensive network within units of the French forces
  3. An understanding and knowledge of the ecosystem’s issues and needs .
  4. The implementation of concrete actions with operational staff
  1. A comprehensive understanding of challenges, operational needs, and solutions mastered
  2. An extensive network within the units of the French armed forces
  3. An in-depth understanding of the ecosystem’s issues and needs
  4. The implementation of concrete actions alongside operational staff

Space

Maj-Gen (ret) Michel FRIEDLING

One of the main players in the development of the French Defense Space Strategy (July 2019) before becoming the first Commander of the French Space Command.
Entrepreneur and investor in French spacetech.

Special Forces

Maj-Gen (ret) Philippe LANDICHEFF

Former head of the French Special Air Forces Brigade (BFSA), led several Task Forces including Takuba in the Sahel for 8 months.
Air commando parachutist officer for 40 years and 30 years in the French special forces.

Cyber

Lt-Gen (ret) Didier TISSEYRE

Former Director of Infrastructure and Operational Information Systems (DSI) and French Commander of COMCYBER.
+20 years of experience in managing digital and cyber strategies at the joint level.

Digital

Maj-Gen (ret) Philippe DEDOBBELEER

Former general digital officer of the French Armed Forces.
+20 years of experience in managing transformation strategies associated with space and digital at the joint level.

Our operational team

Juliette MALLEZ

Head of operations

+15 years in the defense industry, specializing in business development and project management

Operational reserve officer

Sabrina BARRÉ

Space policy consultant - project manager

Graduate in Public Affairs, specializing in defense & security. Co-founder of the ASTRES network

Operational reserve officer

Paul Castrigno

Junior consultant

Graduate in International Relations and action abroad - Last experience: international affairs at SGDSN

Tailoring to the specific needs of our customers, we rely on a unique network of experts composed of former military and civilian experts providing tailor-made strategic and operational solutions.

Our added value

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A tailor-made adaptation of our offer to your specific needs

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A knowledge of the defense ecosystem defense and its needs

A knowledge of military operations in a multi-domain environment

An approach to collective intelligence leveraging expert skills

Our offer

Strategy

  • Preliminary studies
  • Consolidation of the strategy
  • Mentoring

Defense Business Development

  • Functional analysis​
  • Support in the definition and analysis of use cases
  • Mapping of defense and security players

Export support

  • Support in the definition of an export strategy
  • Operational implementation of an export strategy
  • Assistance with the operational implementation of an export strategy

Thematic studies & Training

  • Defense and security training
  • State-of-the-art studies of technical solutions for defense uses
  • Security and defense use case studies​
  • Monitoring technological topics of defense interest

Fundraising

  • Support in defining a business model adapted to defense or dual needs
  • Assistance in producing documents for investors
  • Support for fundraising (in partnership)

Communication & Public Affairs

  • Support at trade fairs and events in the field
  • Business intelligence and articles
  • Consolidation of talking points
  • Public affairs support