Compliance as your Competitive Moat: A Roundtable for National Security Startups
The national security market is a hard one to crack. You have the tech, mission alignment, and an interested customer. Now, you need to strategically tackle compliance requirements to set yourself apart from competitors and maintain credibility with investors and customers, without distracting from your core priorities, whether that's your product development or raise.
StonePoint Solutions and ISI Defense are bringing together a group of dual-use and early-stage startups and operators together at Station DC for an off-the-record conversation on how companies are interpreting and addressing important compliance requirements, from CMMC to ITAR, and how you can take these on in a way that unlocks revenue and capital.
We'll dig into:
• The contracting mistakes that sink early-stage companies before they scale
• How to make smart decisions about compliance investments: when to hire, when to outsource
• Working with primes: when to sub, when to partner, and when to compete
• The compliance frameworks that matter and how and when to prioritize them
This event is for founders and operators. Come ready to share, ask hard questions, and leave with a clearer path forward. Space is limited.
About your hosts:
Shelly Stoneman: StonePoint Solutions Founder Shelly O’Neill Stoneman is a seasoned national security executive with extensive experience in the federal government and in C-suite roles in the defense sector. She brings insider knowledge, executive-level strategy, and proven results, drawing on unparalleled experience from the highest levels of government – advising one U.S. President, numerous Members of Congress, and three Secretaries of Defense – as well as the largest defense companies, where she was head of government relations at Lockheed Martin and BAE systems.
Alex Kahan: Alex is a senior advisor at StonePoint Solutions with nearly 20 years of leadership, strategy, and operations experience in federal national security roles and management consulting. In government, she led strategy at Development Finance Corporation, the USG's investment arm focused on commercial projects in national security critical industries, and served at the National Security Council and State Department. At Boston Consulting Group, she worked with commercial and federal A&D clients, including in the A&D sector.
Jody Stoehr is Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystems at ISI and a recognized expert in the CMMC ecosystem. She helps defense contractors understand CMMC requirements, strengthen cybersecurity, and achieve compliance. Jody is also a strong advocate for small businesses across the Defense Industrial Base, supporting initiatives that make cybersecurity more accessible and achievable.