◆ Est. 2025
Washington · D.C.
Pacer Forge
Strategies
Strategies
Talent · Tech · Security · Policy
Strategic Advisory Services
From insight
to impact.
Pacer Forge Strategies is a principal-led advisory practice built for companies, investors, and institutions that need more than a Washington playbook. Founded by Alex Wagner — former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Army, and co-author of the Pentagon's foundational policy on autonomous weapons — the firm works at the intersection of talent strategy, defense technology, and the politics that shape both.
Practice Areas
Most firms offer you access. We offer you fluency.
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Strategy Development & Advisory Services
Your product brief landed with the wrong office. Your Hill strategy isn't converting into program support. Your board wants a Washington read and the retired general or admiral on retainer keeps saying "it's complicated." We advise senior leadership on how the Washington decisionmaking actually happens — the right people, money, and technology — and structure engagement strategies that move the needle.
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Technology & Defense Policy
You're building at the edge of technology, AI, or aerospace and you need to understand the federal, state, or local policy landscape before it shapes your market for you. We bring leadership experience from the Pentagon's strategic and conventional weapons policy offices, Air Force and Space Force transformation, and Army innovation initiatives across three administrations — not to tell you what the rules are, but to help you see where they're going.
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Policy Communications & Media Strategy
You need to shape a conversation, not just react to one. We build message architecture, place op-eds, and prepare principals for on-the-record engagement — informed by bylines in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Defense One, and Breaking Defense, and commentary on MSNBC, NPR, and ABC News.