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Promoting America’s Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Talent for National Security

The Creative Defense Foundation’s mission is to foster meaningful engagement between national security agencies, Congressional leaders, and America’s top intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs to build a highly efficient, technologically advanced national security ecosystem and workforce, ensuring agility, resilience, and dominance in an increasingly complex global threat environment.
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Upcoming Events

Creative Disruptors

In the Desert

February 19-21, 2026
La Quinta, CA

Registration Opening Soon

Creative Disruptors

By The Lakes

September 2026
Minnesota

Details coming soon

”Creative Disruptors is a unique forum where, in the course of a weekend, defense technology leaders can interact with senior government officials, members of Congress, defense-oriented investors, and their peers from other companies. The small size and the program structure make it easy to have meaningful engagements with the right people.

Mike ConnorChairman and CEO | ThayerMahan

”Creative Disruptors is one of the few events that brings together real decision-makers from government, industry, and investment. The conversations were substantive, timely, and focused on solving real problems in national security, yielding tangible results in near real time.

Adam FifeCEO | CenCore
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The Creative Defense Foundation is a nonprofit organization that unites innovators, national security leaders, and policymakers to address America’s most urgent defense challenges.
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