The discipline to find problems worth solving — and the acquisition engines that field solutions at scale. BMNT designs and operates both, from discovery sprint to consortium management.
USSOCOM selected GovSignals and BMNT to build and manage SOF RACER — a new kind of defense consortium. Not a membership directory: an AI-enabled operating system for sourcing, competition, and transition across twelve technology areas. GovSignals brings the platform. BMNT brings the ecosystem — and the method that treats every requirement as a sourcing problem, not a membership drive.
Problems sourced & curated for government sponsors since 2013
Private capital raised for dual-use companies
$60B+ private capital in the Defense Investor Network
Defense tech companies created through H4D®
Universities teaching our methods
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business — GSA, OTAs, IDIQs
An innovation capability your organization owns — doctrine, tradecraft, trained people, pathways, and operating cadence. Innovation becomes a function, not a one-off project. An organization that solves hard problems repeatedly — without heroics.
A pipeline of validated solutions — companies sourced against real problems, carried past the valley of death with private capital. Demand defines the problems worth funding; supply delivers solutions ready to scale — so a portfolio can fund what's working.
Certainty a problem is worth solving — before money is spent
2,460+ problems sourced and curated for government sponsors since 2013.
A permanent in-house innovation function — not a consulting dependency
AFRICOM: a command-wide capability in six months. DLA: 192 senior leaders trained.
A running problem-to-fielding pipeline, operated on your behalf
DLA J68 operating partner since 2018: 596 interviews → 196 curated problems → 35 companies into prototyping or award.
Your acquisition engine, run at commercial speed
Designed DIU's CSO process. Built and operate DLA's OTA — 25+ awards, ~70-day average. Selected by USSOCOM to run SOF RACER.
The right companies for your problem — engineers, not sales reps
A network of 20,000+ companies. OSD SIP: 1,000+ sourced in <9 months; 44-day average first contact to award.
Private markets subsidizing your mission R&D
$21M seed → $407M+ private capital (~19:1). NASA Ignite: new-to-agency up from 34% to 55%.
NASA's gateway to the entrepreneurial ecosystem — recruiting companies and investors the agency couldn't reach on its own.
New-to-agency participation 34% → 55% · 22 companies raised $380M · "Exceptional" CPARS in every category
Demand-side muscle made operational inside a live combatant command — not a study, a working system.
Joint Warfighter Innovation Council stood up · Innovation codified into joint doctrine · <30-day contracting via ONIX
Operating partner for the J68 Technology Accelerator since 2018 — turning operational problems into fielded capability across a 26,000-person agency.
596 discovery interviews → 196 validated problems · 25+ OTA awards at ~70-day average · 192 senior leaders trained
At DLA, our discovery work disproved an assumed enterprise-wide inventory gap — and stopped millions from being spent on it. Evidence decides, both directions. That's the discipline you're buying: not another study, not another strategy — a kill-or-scale decision you can defend.
Give us a stubborn metric and 90 days to change it.
Bring BMNT a hard problem that is stuck. We will spend 90 days helping you surface the blocker, test what matters, and clear the first barrier to movement. If we're not the right fit, we'll be upfront with you and refer you to someone who is.
