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Production footprint · for primes & manufacturers

Localize your defense production in Ukraine

Stand up joint production, a JV or a supply-chain footprint inside Ukraine — under the Defence City regime, with vetted local partners. Wiseboard is the operator on the ground that gets a foreign manufacturer set up in-country: first partner, structure, and a line running.

Discuss your footprintEvery engagement under NDA
$35B
Defense production market, and growing
~1,000
Manufacturers to partner or produce with
2026
Controlled exports opened — build for export too
The opportunity

Build where the demand and the know-how already are

Ukraine is Europe's largest live defense market and a proving ground for production at war speed. Localizing puts you inside it — closer to the buyer, the talent and the iteration.

01

Inside the market

Local production means procurement eligibility, faster iteration with the end user, and a foothold as the market scales.

02

Talent and tempo

Engineers and lines that iterate at war speed. What takes quarters elsewhere ships in weeks here.

03

A defined regime

Defence City and Diia.City make a Ukrainian footprint predictable — tax, legal and structure a foreign manufacturer can underwrite.

How localization works

From first partner to a line running

Not an MoU and a handshake — a partner, a structure and production standing up on the ground.

1

Tell us the footprint

What you make, the volume, the IP you keep home and what runs in-country — on a call, under NDA.

2

Matched to local partners

Vetted manufacturers, contract producers and JV partners from our network — matched to your product and standards.

3

Structured under the regime

The JV, licensing and IP structured under Defence City / Diia.City — built with our legal and finance partners.

4

Stood up and running

Site, supply chain and first production stood up, with the local relationships to scale.

Two ways in

A JV, or contract production

Own the footprint through a joint venture, or run volume through a vetted local producer — often one, then the other.

01

Joint venture

A co-owned Ukrainian entity — your IP and standards, local production and market access, structured for a foreign owner.

02

Contract manufacturing

Volume produced by a vetted local partner to your spec, without standing up your own entity first.

Every footprint is scoped to your IP boundaries, your compliance regime and the product's classification.

The cost of waiting

The best local partners are being chosen now.

As primes and manufacturers localize, the strongest partners and the market position get taken. A footprint built early compounds; one built late plays catch-up.

First-mover footprint
Discretion

Under NDA, IP protected

What you make, where, and with whom stays confidential. IP boundaries and licensing are defined before anything moves, so localizing production never means giving the technology away.

Build your Ukrainian footprint

Tell us the product, the volume and the IP boundaries. We'll come back with a scoped footprint under NDA.

The market, the talent and the tempo are here. Build inside it.

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