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As a research-driven strategic positioning company, we uncover ground truth inside and outside your organization through candid, non-attributable conversations with key stakeholders and leaders.
Then, we turn those insights into pivotal strategies that make your value unmistakable, build backing from key decision-makers and the public, clear policy and regulatory obstacles, and secure the wins that matter most to your mission.
Find Ground Truth
Get Future Focused
Be Certain
As a research-driven strategic positioning company, we uncover ground truth inside and outside your organization through candid, non-attributable conversations with key stakeholders and leaders.
Then, we turn those insights into pivotal strategies that make your value unmistakable, build backing from key decision-makers and the public, clear policy and regulatory obstacles, and secure the wins that matter most to your mission.
Find Ground Truth
Get Future Focused
Be Certain
Faced with a major challenge?
Schedule a 30-minute call with a strategist today.
Harmonic FutureFocus™
Harmonic FutureFocus™
Harmonic FutureFocus™
Harmonic’s FutureFocus process reveals your reality—showing how stakeholders understand your mission, what they truly support (or don't), and which factors actually drive their decisions. From that truth, everything else can be aligned.
Harmonic’s FutureFocus process reveals your reality—showing how stakeholders understand your mission, what they truly support (or don't), and which factors actually drive their decisions. From that truth, everything else can be aligned.
Principals-led interviews with policy, funding, and implementation leaders. Extraordinary access → decision-grade insight → no guesswork.
Principals-led interviews with policy, funding, and implementation leaders. Extraordinary access → decision-grade insight → no guesswork.
Principals-led interviews with policy, funding, and implementation leaders. Extraordinary access → decision-grade insight → no guesswork.
We spot what’s next before it becomes policy—monitoring early indicators across technology, politics, and public will so leaders can position themselves ahead of change.
We spot what’s next before it becomes policy—monitoring early indicators across technology, politics, and public will so leaders can position themselves ahead of change.
We spot what’s next before it becomes policy—monitoring early indicators across technology, politics, and public will so leaders can position themselves ahead of change.
We chart the real landscape of power and perception—who aligns, who resists, and where alliances can form—turning complex uncertainty into a navigable field.
We chart the real landscape of power and perception—who aligns, who resists, and where alliances can form—turning complex uncertainty into a navigable field.
We chart the real landscape of power and perception—who aligns, who resists, and where alliances can form—turning complex uncertainty into a navigable field.
We translate insight into viable courses of action—framing clear options and tradeoffs, mapping 2nd- and 3rd-order effects, and guiding a decision process that builds true buy-in and consensus, so people don’t just agree… they execute with conviction.
We translate insight into viable courses of action—framing clear options and tradeoffs, mapping 2nd- and 3rd-order effects, and guiding a decision process that builds true buy-in and consensus, so people don’t just agree… they execute with conviction.
We translate insight into viable courses of action—framing clear options and tradeoffs, mapping 2nd- and 3rd-order effects, and guiding a decision process that builds true buy-in and consensus, so people don’t just agree… they execute with conviction.
We turn your strategic choices into a sharp position in a crowded, competitive federal field—making your identity and value unmistakable. With that position set, communications and engagement strategies snap into place.
We turn your strategic choices into a sharp position in a crowded, competitive federal field—making your identity and value unmistakable. With that position set, communications and engagement strategies snap into place.
We turn your strategic choices into a sharp position in a crowded, competitive federal field—making your identity and value unmistakable. With that position set, communications and engagement strategies snap into place.
We turn your positioning into an enterprise-wide engagement playbook. Through message testing, message maps, and cadence plans, we align stakeholder and public communications across programs and regions—so efforts reinforce each other and every message builds awareness and support instead of creating white noise.
We turn your positioning into an enterprise-wide engagement playbook. Through message testing, message maps, and cadence plans, we align stakeholder and public communications across programs and regions—so efforts reinforce each other and every message builds awareness and support instead of creating white noise.
We turn your positioning into an enterprise-wide engagement playbook. Through message testing, message maps, and cadence plans, we align stakeholder and public communications across programs and regions—so efforts reinforce each other and every message builds awareness and support instead of creating white noise.
From change comes Opportunity
From change comes Opportunity
From change comes Opportunity
Budgets are shrinking. Roles are changing. Regulations are being eliminated.
Key priorities are shifting and no longer match the budgets that fund them. Critical programs are underfunded, with no clear roadmap to goals or technologies. Peanut butter spread cuts threaten to make all programs and projects even less effective.
This environment rewards clarity and punishes drift. Agencies whose missions, messages, and budgets fall out of sync risk losing relevance—or resources. Change, though, is an opening. It’s the rare chance to realign programs to presidential direction, statutory authority, and the technologies redefining how government works.
Budgets are shrinking. Roles are changing. Regulations are being eliminated.
Key priorities are shifting and no longer match the budgets that fund them. Critical programs are underfunded, with no clear roadmap to goals or technologies. Peanut butter spread cuts threaten to make all programs and projects even less effective.
This environment rewards clarity and punishes drift. Agencies whose missions, messages, and budgets fall out of sync risk losing relevance—or resources. Change, though, is an opening. It’s the rare chance to realign programs to presidential direction, statutory authority, and the technologies redefining how government works.
For Government Leaders
You inherit congressionally funded programs, legacy systems, and marquee projects built to announce—not execute—with almost no discretionary room. The mission isn’t one sentence, so budgets and briefs blur. Big moves hit a concurrence gauntlet; one quiet “no” stops the train, and interagency adds veto points without money. Artifacts are scattered, so no one can see “what lands next quarter” at a glance. You’re asked, “Why fund this now?” without a procurement-safe ROI. Different decks tell different stories to Hill, OMB, and partners. Result: lots of activity, not enough approvals.
Government Leaders
You inherit congressionally funded programs, legacy systems, and marquee projects built to announce—not execute—with almost no discretionary room. The mission isn’t one sentence, so budgets and briefs blur. Big moves hit a concurrence gauntlet; one quiet “no” stops the train, and interagency adds veto points without money. Artifacts are scattered, so no one can see “what lands next quarter” at a glance. You’re asked, “Why fund this now?” without a procurement-safe ROI. Different decks tell different stories to Hill, OMB, and partners. Result: lots of activity, not enough approvals.
Government
You inherit congressionally funded programs, legacy systems, and marquee projects built to announce—not execute—with almost no discretionary room. The mission isn’t one sentence, so budgets and briefs blur. Big moves hit a concurrence gauntlet; one quiet “no” stops the train, and interagency adds veto points without money. Artifacts are scattered, so no one can see “what lands next quarter” at a glance. You’re asked, “Why fund this now?” without a procurement-safe ROI. Different decks tell different stories to Hill, OMB, and partners. Result: lots of activity, not enough approvals.
For Military Leaders
You were trained to run missions; at the 3–4-star level the job flips to architecting an enterprise and placing tech bets (AI, autonomy, space/cyber) for a future no one can map. You’re balancing readiness now against modernization later inside acquisition that moves slower than the fight. Decision rights are diffuse; a single non-concur stalls momentum. Inside the building, candor is costly—stoplight dashboards drift to green and real risk gets masked. Tours are short; programs outlast their champions. Without unfiltered ground truth and a crisp mission/ROI story that earns top cover, shifting resources and accepting risk at speed is uphill.
Military Leaders
You were trained to run missions; at the 3–4-star level the job flips to architecting an enterprise and placing tech bets (AI, autonomy, space/cyber) for a future no one can map. You’re balancing readiness now against modernization later inside acquisition that moves slower than the fight. Decision rights are diffuse; a single non-concur stalls momentum. Inside the building, candor is costly—stoplight dashboards drift to green and real risk gets masked. Tours are short; programs outlast their champions. Without unfiltered ground truth and a crisp mission/ROI story that earns top cover, shifting resources and accepting risk at speed is uphill.
Military Leaders
You were trained to run missions; at the 3–4-star level the job flips to architecting an enterprise and placing tech bets (AI, autonomy, space/cyber) for a future no one can map. You’re balancing readiness now against modernization later inside acquisition that moves slower than the fight. Decision rights are diffuse; a single non-concur stalls momentum. Inside the building, candor is costly—stoplight dashboards drift to green and real risk gets masked. Tours are short; programs outlast their champions. Without unfiltered ground truth and a crisp mission/ROI story that earns top cover, shifting resources and accepting risk at speed is uphill.
What we've done
What we've done
Defense (ISR & Cyber): Ground truth reached the highest decision forum; operating model adopted; execution accelerated.
Space (public mandate): Mission narrative reframed; leadership positioned for durable support and resources.
Maritime (national strategy): Constraints surfaced; plan authored and funded; scope expanded by $1.7M.
NOAA ( resilience): Quiet resistance identified; narrative reframed; Congress engaged, funding alignment achieved, interagency plan adopted.
Are you trying to accomplish big things?
Are you trying to accomplish big things?
Are you trying to accomplish big things?
Great Clients. Certain Success.
“Under my command, Harmonic led the development of several national-level strategies with key stakeholders for Air Force Cyber, National Military Space, and the ISR Enterprise. One of the most powerful products Harmonic produced for me was the ISR Strategic Choices document. It gave me the critical insights I needed to propose major reforms to the national ISR enterprise in the Tank. Harmonic doesn’t just write strategy. They unlock the truth inside a system and give leaders a path to act.”
General Kehler
"Working directly with me and my team, Harmonic assisted me in crafting the National Military Space Strategy. Their process was unlike anything I’d seen—deep stakeholder research with 50 to 100 of the sharpest minds across government, the military, and industry. They didn’t just gather insight—they synthesized it, vetted it with key decision makers, and added executable plans. That kind of speed and clarity is rare in Washington—and they delivered it all within a six-month window.”
Lt Gen Kevin McLaughlin
"Harmonic provided NASA with the research data that helped shape the Nation's Vision for Space Exploration, clarify it for Congress and communicate it to industry and the American public. This type of data driven approach to strategic communications which is so important in business is beneficial for public policy as well.”
Sean O'Keefe, former NASA Administrator
“Harmonic was instrumental in creating a fundamental change in the way NASA conducts communications activities. Their background work and scientific survey data provided us with the information to create a much more strategic approach toward how we describe our vision. Their work ultimately resulted in a reorganization of our congressional, public affairs, and international relations organizations around a new centralized approach based on strategic communications.”
NASA, Gary Martin, Space Architect
“Under my command, Harmonic led the development of several national-level strategies with key stakeholders for Air Force Cyber, National Military Space, and the ISR Enterprise. One of the most powerful products Harmonic produced for me was the ISR Strategic Choices document. It gave me the critical insights I needed to propose major reforms to the national ISR enterprise in the Tank. Harmonic doesn’t just write strategy. They unlock the truth inside a system and give leaders a path to act.”
General Kehler
"Working directly with me and my team, Harmonic assisted me in crafting the National Military Space Strategy. Their process was unlike anything I’d seen—deep stakeholder research with 50 to 100 of the sharpest minds across government, the military, and industry. They didn’t just gather insight—they synthesized it, vetted it with key decision makers, and added executable plans. That kind of speed and clarity is rare in Washington—and they delivered it all within a six-month window.”
Lt Gen Kevin McLaughlin
"Harmonic provided NASA with the research data that helped shape the Nation's Vision for Space Exploration, clarify it for Congress and communicate it to industry and the American public. This type of data driven approach to strategic communications which is so important in business is beneficial for public policy as well.”
Sean O'Keefe, former NASA Administrator
“Harmonic was instrumental in creating a fundamental change in the way NASA conducts communications activities. Their background work and scientific survey data provided us with the information to create a much more strategic approach toward how we describe our vision. Their work ultimately resulted in a reorganization of our congressional, public affairs, and international relations organizations around a new centralized approach based on strategic communications.”
NASA, Gary Martin, Space Architect
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What we've done
Defense (ISR & Cyber): Ground truth reached the highest decision forum; operating model adopted; execution accelerated.
Space (public mandate): Mission narrative reframed; leadership positioned for durable support and resources.
Maritime (national strategy): Constraints surfaced; plan authored and funded; scope expanded by $1.7M.
NOAA ( resilience): Quiet resistance identified; narrative reframed; Congress engaged, funding alignment achieved, interagency plan adopted.