BUDGET. CONGRESS. CONTRACTS.
For small defense technology companies that have won an SBIR or STTR and need the next contract: Phase II, Phase III, a budget line of their own, or a place in a program of record.
A prototype opportunity in your field, on a budget line Congress increased this year.
One page, every week.
Written for your company.
01 / THE GAP
Most small companies we meet can see DoD spending in their area. What they cannot see is the part that decides a bid.
Without those answers, good companies spend months on bids they were never going to win.
HOW DEFENSE MONEY MOVES
02 / WHAT YOU GET
Most clients start with the weekly Watch and add proposal or advisory work when a real opportunity comes up.
A one-page read written for your company: the opportunities worth your time, the ones to leave alone, and the budget and Hill activity in your field.
A competition check before you commit, then proposals, white papers, information responses and labor-rate builds, checked against the solicitation.
Time with Michael on capture strategy, teaming, appropriations and congressional engagement.
DIRECT ADVISORY STARTS HERE
Capture Readiness Assessment
Before committing more people and proposal effort, get an independent assessment of one defense opportunity and what it will take to pursue it.
YOUR DECISION PACKAGE
A reasoned view of the opportunity, including assumptions and uncertainties.
What could weaken the pursuit and what still needs to be confirmed.
The documents and evidence needed to support your next step.
Sequenced work your team can assign and act on.
Plus a 60-minute leadership readout
Walk through the findings and pressure-test the recommendation.
03 / WHY NOT JUST A SUBSCRIPTION?
Opportunity and market-data subscriptions are good feeds, and many of our clients keep theirs. DIA is the step after the feed.
| Topic | A data subscription | DoD Industry Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Notices, awards and alerts to search | A verdict on each opportunity: chase, respond, look closer, team or skip, with the reason |
| Who it is for | Every subscriber | Your company, set up with you: your field, your programs, your markets |
| Budget and the Hill | Data to interpret yourself | What a budget mark or hearing means for your program, from someone who worked that Hill for the Pentagon |
| Before you bid | Search the history yourself | A competition check: prior winners, papers, patents and your weak spots |
| Proof | Summaries | Every answer cited to the page it came from |
| Where the research runs | A shared cloud service | A private system on DIA’s own servers |
Your team can point an AI at SAM.gov. It cannot tell you which buyer is real, which program is funded, or who actually decides. That is the part we deliver.
THE RECORD BEHIND EVERY ANSWER
Also searched: the FAR and DFARS, NDAA text and Supreme Court opinions. Counts as of October 2026.
04 / HOW EVERY OPPORTUNITY IS JUDGED
The bids you do not write are worth as much as the ones you do.
From our work: a budget line where Congress funded more than twice what the service asked for, found and cited in an afternoon.
See the method at work on a real question05 / HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
You bring the capability and the business decision. DIA brings research, structure, and senior judgment.
A 30-minute fit call, a mutual NDA before proprietary review, and an agreed scope, fee, and timeline.
DIA researches, develops the analysis or draft, and identifies what needs input from your team.
We walk through the work together. You validate company claims and approve your final response and next steps.
06 / WHO IS BEHIND IT
Michael Komorous spent 24 years in the Air Force and retired as a colonel. He knows how a military need becomes a budget request, how Congress changes it, and what that means for the companies that answer it.
He was an ICBM missile operator, flew the MQ-1 Predator and the C-17, and commanded an operations group responsible for $2 billion in assets. At the Pentagon he was the Legislative Affairs representative to the $850 billion Acquisition and Sustainment portfolio, carrying the F-35, Defense Logistics Agency, critical minerals, energy and installations, and small business accounts.
The advisor who scopes your work stays involved in the analysis, review, and leadership discussion.
BEFORE WE TALK
Yes. Within the agreed scope, DIA develops and reviews white papers, capability statements, responses to government requests for information, and proposal volumes. Your team supplies and validates company-specific technical, pricing, and performance information. You approve the final submission.
No. The Watch starts from your company and your field and finds the opportunities. If you already have one in mind, a Capture Readiness Assessment looks at it in depth.
Use them; we do too. Then ask one about your budget line: what Congress did with it and where that is written. A public chatbot has not read the justification book and cannot cite the page. DIA’s system has, and an advisor who worked that process makes the call.
DIA is an advisory service. Our internal system does the research; you work with a senior advisor. You keep everything we deliver: the weekly briefs, maps, drafts and plans are yours to use with any team or tool.
The Watch is a monthly subscription. Proposal and advisory work is scoped and quoted before it starts, and the Capture Readiness Assessment is a fixed-fee engagement.
Start with a general conversation. We put a mutual NDA and agreed handling arrangements in place before reviewing proprietary materials. Do not send controlled, classified, or competition-sensitive information through this website or an initial email.
LET’S START WITH ONE QUESTION
A budget line, a solicitation, a program office, a competitor. In a 30-minute call we will show you what the record says about it, with sources, and whether a weekly Watch or a scoped engagement fits.
Request a 30-minute call [email protected]Download the one-page overview (PDF)ON THE CALL
Keep the first conversation general.
NDA before proprietary review.