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[Emerging Technology Outcomes]

PALISADE
BERGSCHRUND

Palisade Bergschrund is a cross-border solutions firm operating in the United States, Europe, Ukraine, and allied markets.

We help manufacturers, procurers, investors, and governments navigate the most demanding challenges of modern defense technology – closing the navigation gap between disconnected allied markets, the intelligence gap between data and decision, and the validation gap between controlled demonstration and operational reality.

[Advisory]

Navigate allied markets with credibility

Allied markets are connected by shared requirements, overlapping capital, and decision-making ecosystems that reward those who know how to navigate them. For most organizations, that navigation is an ongoing strategic imperative – not a one-time challenge.

Palisade Bergschrund delivers sustained partnership for clients pursuing growth objectives across the United States, Europe and Ukraine, from first credibility to full acceleration.

Drawing on cross-border experience and senior institutional relationships, we help clients assess routes to market, prepare for serious engagement, and move with credibility.

Where we focus

Cross-border growth and market entry

We help clients develop, refine, and execute growth strategies in new markets from pre-execution analysis, to in-market ground truthing, to sustained support for partnering, operations, and scaling.

Partnerships and positioning

We help clients identify and evaluate growth options and partners vis a vis including through sourcing of local partners, developing and refining licensing models, evaluating and establishing joint ventures, and production relationships.

Institutional engagement

We prepare clients for engagement with buyers, procurement bodies, investors, and strategic partners.

Act with greater clarity

In complex markets, useful information is rarely in one place. User needs, company activity, procurement signals, or capital movement are scattered across public sources, private conversations, field activity, and fragmented market data.

Palisade Bergschrund builds its own research base through field work, market engagement, and direct work with companies, operators, investors, and institutions. We pair that base with experienced analysis to help clients understand requirements, identify credible companies, test assumptions, and sharpen focus.

We develop the intelligence clients need for choices about what to build, back, buy, partner with, enter, or avoid.

What we clarify

Requirements

What users and buyers need, how requirements are changing, and where current solutions fall short.

Companies

Who is building credible technology, where traction is visible, and which claims require more proof.

Technologies

Which systems are maturing, which are overhyped, and what performance questions matter most.

Markets

Where procurement, capital, partnerships, and cross-border routes are moving.

Determine what's real before you commit

Before a technology is funded, integrated, procured, or put into use, developers, buyers and investors need to know whether its claims hold up under real conditions.

Controlled demonstrations can show promise, but do not prove that a system will work for users, integrate with existing systems, or remain reliable as conditions change.

Palisade Bergschrund works with organizations building, backing, buying, and adopting emerging technology. Using direct operational experience and a proprietary methodology, we help establish what is proven, what remains uncertain, where adoption could break down, and what should be tested, improved, or communicated next.

The result is a clear view of readiness for product development, investment, procurement, partnership, or adoption.

How we work

Independent

Our judgment is grounded in evidence, not vendor claims or institutional momentum.

Operationally grounded

We assess technology through the lens of users, operating constraints, integration realities, and adoption risk.

Benchmark-driven

We help developers measure their systems against clear performance benchmarks, producing data that buyers, investors, and partners can review.

Forward-looking

We go beyond a simple verdict to identify what needs to be proven, refined, or communicated before the next buyer, investor, partner, or product development decision.

[Our team]

Our team brings together senior government, military, financial, technical, and operational experience across the United States, Ukraine, and allied markets. We combine institutional credibility with field-informed judgment to help clients evaluate technologies, navigate complex markets, and make decisions with confidence.

Derek Berlin
Derek Berlin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
David Baldwin
David Baldwin
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Borys Kremenetskyi
Borys Kremenetskyi
Major General, Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ret.)
Jesse Nuese
Jesse Nuese
Managing Partner, Research
Oleksandra Yusupova
Oleksandra Yusupova
Senior Associate
Drew DeJarnette
Drew DeJarnette
Chief Technology Officer
Eric Flood
Eric Flood
Partner, Head of Operations

Latest Research

October 2026[BRIEF]

Defense Tech Capital Brief // 011

The Pentagon spent the week telling autonomy companies where the door is, and the week's money showed how narrow the doorway still is. An open letter said operational units will decide which drones scale and which are cut, and set 1 October 2027 for a four-star command to run it. The Army raised one AI vendor's spending ceiling tenfold and disclosed no obligation. Europe bought Norwegian missiles, American missiles and Israeli rockets in the same four days.

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October 2026[BRIEF]

Defense Tech Capital Brief // 010

The Pentagon asked for $50 billion for autonomy and the Army built the command to spend it, before Congress has voted. In Ukraine, a US speed cap on Starshield showed how much of the drone war runs on Washington’s permission.

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October 2026[BRIEF]

Defense Tech Capital Brief // 009

In Ukraine, the area where cheap drones can find and kill almost anything is expanding outward from the front line. Defending against weapons like these is expensive, and that cost is now shaping where governments and investors put money on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Advisory, research, and technology validation for emerging technologies in allied markets.