Making a Difference with Stellar Advisors
Offering a unique blend of senior expertise (Generals, Admirals, Ambassadors & PhD) focused on solving commercial, government, and international clients’ critical needs.
What We Do
- Stellar Advisors provide unique strategic and operational consulting — this expertise and support includes facilitating the full spectrum of exercises (from tabletop to broad wargames), planning support for key operations, and strategic solutions for corporate clients.
- Bringing senior leader (military and foreign service) perspectives to bear. Our diverse Stellar Advisors cadre remains actively engaged with the military (Combatant Commands) at the highest levels – supporting a wide-ranging spectrum of clients’ current mission needs, exercise development and facilitation, planning, and trans-regional security strategies.
- Stellar Advisors provide exceptional, trusted advisor support to both government and corporate clients with a multi-domain, multi-sector team that applies best practices from diverse fields to optimize solutions.
- Stellar Advisors provide unique experience foundational for White Paper development, Subject Matter Expert publishing, Strategic Planning, and Senior Executive mentoring – with over 60 Stellar Advisors on our team, we can easily align the right Stellar Advisor or Stellar Team to fit your specific critical need.
Our Expertise
- Joint Warfighting – Exercises – Command & Control
- Founded on Stellar Advisors with decades of military experience
- Planning and facilitating world-class training events
- Cyber Operations – Information Operations – Space Operations
- Cyber and Information domains understanding and enhancement
- Bringing Space systems expertise to operational challenges
- Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD)
- Complete missile systems and threat understanding
- High-fidelity, relevant and challenging threat scenarios
- Logistics & Transportation
- Career military logisticians with senior executive credentials
- Analysis and enhancement of entire transportation systems & supply chains
- International Engagement – Interagency – Coalition Operations
- Advisors with unparalleled diplomatic and international expertise
- Depth of knowledge and experience with the breadth of US Government Agencies
- Homeland Security – Disaster Response – Continuity of Operations
- Whole of Government understanding and application to any situation
- Ensuring resilience and enduring capabilities for any adverse situation
Our Clients
Current Missions and Initiatives
- Austere Challenge
Bi-annual Tier 1 Joint Exercise for U.S. European Command (EUCOM)
- Juniper Cobra
Bi-annual Tier 1 Joint Exercise for U.S. European Command (EUCOM)
- Vigilant Shield
Annual Tier 1 Joint Exercise for U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
- Integrated Air & Missile Defense Tabletop Exercise
Annual series of tabletop exercises for Naval Striking & Support Forces NATO (SFN)
- Missile Defense Wargame
An annual series of tabletop exercises & wargames for the Combatant Commands and Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
- Astral Knight
An annual command post exercise for U.S. Air Forces Europe (USAFE)
- Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE)
Leveraging technology to enable faster decision making for senior military leadership (NORTHCOM)
- Cyber Resilience Exercises
Challenging and dynamic facilitated tabletop discussion for C-Suite level understanding of how to be prepared and how to respond
Thought Leadership Pieces & News Releases
The One Year Anniversary of Hamas’ Attack: Implications for the United States Navy in the Red Sea and Beyond.
October 7, 2024. A defense thought leadership piece written by one of our Stellar Advisors was featured at The Center for Maritime Strategy. Here is that article by Jamie Foggo.
The U.S. Must Take the Lead in a Destabilized, Increasingly Militarized Arctic.
August 14, 2024. A defense thought leadership piece written by two Stellar Advisors was published in Defense Opinion. Here is the full article by Jamie Foggo and Russ Handy.
DoD’s Role in Preparing for the Next Pandemic.
February 3, 2024. A defense thought leadership piece written by three of our Stellar Advisors was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by Pete Fesler, Scott Smith and Martha Herb.
Why Ukraine is not a Universal Resistance Model.
February 1, 2024. A defense thought leadership piece written by a Stellar Advisor was featured in War on the Rocks. Here is the full article by Brian Petit.
Comprehensive missile defense must be more than quality and quantity.
December 13, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece was co-authored by a team of Stellar Advisors and featured in Breaking Defense. Here is the full article by Fran Mahon, Punch Moulton, and John Shapland.
Strengthening the Black Sea Grain Agreement short of war
August 22, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece was co-authored by a Stellar Advisor and featured in War on the Rocks. Here is the full article by Jamie Foggo and a colleague of his.
IAMD Table Top Exercise 2022 hosted by STRIKFORNATO, MARCOM and AIRCOM takes place.
April 28, 2022. Senior leaders and IAMD experts from throughout NATO convened for a two-day IAMD Table Top Exercise (TTX) facilitated by Stellar Advisors.
Can Ukrainian Resistance Foil a Russian Victory?
February 19, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece written by a Stellar Advisor was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by Brian Petit.
Empower our Space Force, just as we do for the other armed services
January 28, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece written by a Stellar Advisor was featured in DefenseNews. Here is the full article by Kevin Chilton.
Competition – Our Advantage – Essential to Defending America
January 26, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in Defense News. Here is the full article by Fran Mahon and John Shapland.
How to lose the next war: Ignore the supply chain
January 25, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece written by a Stellar Advisor was featured in The Hill. Here is the full article by Jamie Foggo.
The Backbone of JADC2: Satellite Communications for the Information Age
January 7, 2022. A defense thought leadership piece written by a Stellar Advisor was featured at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Here is the full article by Kevin Chilton.
Leaders discuss ballistic missile defense at Vista Intercept 22
October 18, 2021. Senior leaders and IAMD experts from NORAD, NORTHCOM, MDA and other organizations convened for a BMD Table Top Exercise (TTXZ) facilitated by Stellar Advisors.
Aegis Ashore too limited for Guam: Former INDOPACOM Head
July 9, 2021. A defense thought leadership piece written by a Stellar Advisor was featured in Breaking Defense. Here is the full article by Harry Harris.
Robust, credible and layered missile defense is the foundation of deterrence
June 16, 2021. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in Defense News. Here is the full article by Punch Moulton and Fran Mahon.
New approach to Ground-based Midcourse Defense confronts our other enemy
February, 5, 2021. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in Defense News. Here is the full article by Fran Mahon and John Shapland.
Future Threats to Our Homeland Require Smart Investment Today
October 26, 2020. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by Punch Moulton and Fran Mahon.
“None of This Is Going to Matter if You’re Dead”: Modernizing Integrated Air and Missile Defense Must Remain Army’s Top Priority
June 16, 2020. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by Dave Mann, Roger Mathews and Fran Mahon.
Hypersonic Defense Requires Getting Space Sensor System Right
May 13, 2020. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by Doug Fraser, Frank Gorenc and John Shapland.
Stellar Solutions Facilitates NATO Missile Defense “Table-Top Exercise
August 2, 2019. In January 2019, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (SFN) conducted their fifth in a series of table-top exercises (TTXs), and Stellar Solutions played a vital role in the event as both leader and facilitator. Attended by 12 NATO senior officers and over 40 NATO staff officers and civilian equivalents, this two-day TTX was planned and facilitated by Stellar Advisors.
Hypersonic Weapons – A Threat to National Security
April 23, 2019. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by John Dolan, Dick Gallagher and Dave Mann.
Air and Missile Defense Integration Needed Now . . . More Than Ever
July 16, 2018. A defense thought leadership piece written by Stellar Advisors was featured in RealClearDefense. Here is the full article by Dave Mann, Dick Gallagher and Larry Wells.