Get your defense‑tech export-ready
From licensing to codification to certification, one team makes you eligible to sell abroad.
- Your export license and dual-use clearance secured
- Your IP moved into a clean corporate structure
- Codified into NATO — NCAGE and NSN
- AQAP, ISO and SOC 2 certified for your market
- A supply chain that clears a buyer's security review
- A data room ready before the buyer asks
Where the deal breaks
Without the license, the codification, the certificates and a clean structure, the order does not go through. Here is where it breaks.
Everything it takes to be export-ready
A structure that holds up when a foreign government, or an investor, looks closely. Products a NATO buyer can legally order. The certificates your target market asks for. A supply chain with nothing for a buyer's security review to flag — everything a defense buyer needs to see, ready before they ask.
Corporate structure & governance
Your IP moved out of the Ukrainian entity, a clean cap table, and a cross-border holding a foreign government and an international fund can both underwrite. Governance that holds up under scrutiny, not one improvised under wartime pressure.
Export licensing & controls
The export license and documentation to sell defense technology and software abroad, with ITAR, EAR and EU Dual-Use mapped to every market you target. Paperwork for international tenders and government negotiations, ready to file.
NATO codification
An NCAGE code and NATO Stock Numbers on your products, so an allied force can legally procure and stock what you build. The step that turns your product into a line a NATO member can put on a purchase order.
Defense quality certification
ISO 9001 as the base, then AQAP 2110 and 2210 — NATO's quality standard and, in many tenders, a precondition to bid. If you already hold Ukraine's DGYA quality acceptance, that experience shortens the path to AQAP.
Security, privacy & continuity
The information-management certificates buyers ask for before they share sensitive data or sign: ISO 27001 for security, ISO 27701 for privacy, ISO 22301 for business continuity. The answer to how you protect data and stay running under pressure.
Market-entry certification
The country-specific credentials that unlock each market, when your target market requires them. SOC 2 and CMMC Level 2 for the US defense supply chain. Cyber Essentials for a fast entry to the UK. NIS2 alignment if you integrate into EU critical infrastructure.
Supply-chain & diligence readiness
Your supply chain checked for exposure an international buyer cannot accept, including hidden dependencies on the wrong jurisdictions, plus a reputation and counterparty review. A data room assembled so a buyer's review runs in weeks, not months.
Independent validation & testing
Your product independently validated at accredited European facilities against international and NATO standards. An external test report that answers a buyer's technical questions and unlocks CE marking and defense-grade certification. Scope depends on the product, mapped on a call.
Not sure which of these you need? Working that out is the first step.
Schedule a call →A fund writes a check. A broker sends a deck. Neither makes you eligible.
Others do one piece. You leave here a funded, export-eligible company — not a grey-IP wartime business.
Schedule a call →The certification lifecycle, step by step
Each step builds on the last. Only the steps your market and your buyers require, in the order that reaches an export-ready company by the shortest path.
Structure & IP
Cross-border holding, clean cap table, IP relocated out of the wartime entity.
Quality base
ISO 9001 and the information-security foundation put in place.
Defense standard
AQAP 2110 / 2210 for NATO and MoD eligibility.
Codify & license
NCAGE, NSN and export licensing for the markets you target.
Validate
Independent testing and supply-chain due diligence.
Order-ready
Data room assembled — the buyer can place the order.
Every credential, and the door it opens
What each certification proves, and the market it unlocks.
| Standard | Door it opens | What it proves |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 9001 | Global, foundational | A working quality management system — the base every defense standard builds on. |
| AQAP 2110 / 2210 | NATO & MoD tenders | NATO's quality assurance standard for defense suppliers, with software requirements. Often a precondition to bid. |
| ISO 27001 | Global | Information security management. Expected wherever sensitive or classified data is handled. |
| ISO 27701 | Global | Privacy information management, extending ISO 27001. Proves you handle personal data to a recognized standard. |
| ISO 22301 | Global | Business continuity management. Shows you stay operational through disruption — which matters for a wartime supplier. |
| SOC 2 | United States | Security and data controls for software and platforms. What US buyers ask of data, EW and AI vendors. |
| CMMC Level 2 | US DoD supply chain | Verified NIST 800-171 controls for handling CUI. Expected of vendors in the US DoD supply chain, flowed down by primes. Phasing in through 2026. |
| Cyber Essentials | United Kingdom | UK government-backed cybersecurity certification. A fast, recognized entry point to the British market. |
| NIS2 | EU critical infrastructure | An EU directive placing cybersecurity duties on operators of essential services. Alignment matters if you integrate into EU critical infrastructure. |
| NCAGE + NSN | NATO supply chains | A NATO entity code and stock number, so allied forces can legally procure and stock your product. |
Export-ready without exposing your tech
Becoming export-eligible does not mean opening up how your product works. It happens at the corporate and compliance layer, under NDA, on a need-to-know basis.
Under NDA from the first call
Every conversation and document sits under a signed NDA before anything sensitive is shared.
No need to expose your tech
Structure, licensing and certification happen at the corporate and compliance layer. It does not require your source code or designs.
Need-to-know only
Your data reaches a specialist only where a specific step requires it, and no further.
Field notes for Ukrainian defense-tech
Questions founders ask about export-readiness
Tell us where you stand
One call. Your structure, licensing and certification gaps mapped against the markets and buyers you are aiming for, with the shortest path to close them. No pitch.