What We Do
Levenhall is a market intelligence consulting firm. Our services start with intelligence on the markets that matter most — defense, government, geopolitical, and dual-use — and extend into the structure required to act on what that intelligence reveals.
US federal market entry is one of our most active practice areas, but it is one avenue, not the whole firm. Every engagement is tailored. We do not sell packaged solutions. Your market, your decision cadence, and your operating posture determine the pathway we recommend.
Market Intelligence
Levenhall is a market intelligence consulting firm. Before we advise on entry, place an executive, or open a procurement pathway, we build a clear, current, source-grounded picture of the market the client is acting in. Intelligence is not a deliverable we sell once. It is the operating system behind everything else we do.
Our intelligence practice covers the markets where information asymmetry decides outcomes: US defense procurement, allied government programs, regulated dual-use technology, and the geopolitical environment shaping all three. We track agencies, programs, primes, consortia, competitors, regulatory shifts, and the people who move money and authority through the system.
Engagements range from one-time landscape assessments and competitive benchmarks to continuous monitoring retainers that feed boards, investors, and operating teams with intelligence calibrated to their decision cadence. Every output is sourced, structured, and built to support a decision, not to fill a slide deck.
Market Entry Advisory
Entering the US defense market is not a matter of registering an entity and responding to solicitations. The procurement landscape is deliberately layered, shaped by regulation, classification requirements, industrial base policy, and political dynamics that shift with each administration.
Levenhall conducts a structured assessment of your technology, your competitive position, and the specific agencies and programs most likely to acquire what you build. We identify the procurement vehicles available to you, the regulatory barriers you will face (ITAR, EAR, FAR, DFARS) and the realistic timeline from market entry to first contract.
The result is not a report. It is an operational plan with named targets, identified pathways, and a clear sequence of actions, all grounded in our underlying market intelligence work.
Rapid Procurement Pathways
The US Department of Defense has built an alternative procurement ecosystem designed for speed. Commercial Solutions Openings (CSOs), Other Transaction Authority (OTAs), and follow-on production agreements bypass traditional FAR-based processes, reducing timelines from years to months and lowering the compliance burden that deters international entrants.
CSOs allow DoD to publish a problem statement and evaluate proposed solutions on merit, with awards in as few as 60 days. OTAs, which are exempt from the FAR entirely, enable negotiable terms, protected intellectual property, and direct prototype-to-production pipelines without re-competition. For allied firms, these mechanisms remove the barriers that traditionally required years of US infrastructure to overcome.
Levenhall architects the pathway: identifying which consortia to join, which agencies are active in CSO and OTA solicitations, structuring teaming arrangements with US-based partners, and positioning your technology for prototype awards that lead directly to production contracts. Your status as a non-traditional defense contractor is not a limitation. Under OTA rules, it is a qualifying advantage.
Executive Placement
International firms entering the US market face a structural problem: the people who understand your technology are not the people who understand US procurement. And the people who understand procurement need clearances, agency relationships, and operational credibility that cannot be acquired quickly.
Levenhall maintains a curated network of former senior government officials, military officers, intelligence professionals, and defense industry executives who have led programs, held clearances, and built businesses within the US national security ecosystem. These are not advisors. They are operators, ready to serve as your US-based leadership.
We match executives to your specific requirements: technology domain, target agencies, clearance level, and organizational culture. Every placement is structured to align incentives and protect both parties.
International Tax Services
Cross-border transactions create tax obligations that are simultaneously complex and consequential. Entity structure, transfer pricing, treaty benefits, and withholding requirements all interact, and errors in any one area can create liabilities that dwarf the underlying contract or investment value.
Through our partnership with CST Tax, Levenhall provides clients with specialized tax advisory for US market entry, cross-border defense work, and equity-linked structures. This includes entity formation and structuring, transfer pricing documentation, treaty benefit analysis, and ongoing compliance for firms operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Learn MoreEngagement Process
From initial assessment through execution, Levenhall stays engaged. Intelligence informs strategy. Strategy drives structure. Structure produces outcomes.
Intelligence & Assessment
Confidential discussion of your market, your decision cadence, and your organizational readiness. We assess the intelligence we already hold against the questions you actually need answered, and tell you honestly whether Levenhall is the right partner.
Strategy Development
Detailed market mapping, competitor and program tracking, procurement vehicle analysis, regulatory pathway identification, and partnership architecture. The intelligence becomes an operational plan.
Execution
Entity formation, consortium membership, executive placement, procurement vehicle selection, and active positioning with target agencies and partners. Levenhall stays engaged through award, close, or whichever outcome the engagement is built around.
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Schedule a confidential consultation to explore how Levenhall can support your work — whether you need market intelligence, US federal market entry, a venture engagement, or access to our products.