ABOUT FORTREX
FORTREX is seeking the most accomplished former government professionals in the country — for consulting assignments, board placements, fractional executive roles, and strategic advisory engagements matched precisely to the level of their government careers. FORTREX is the credential the private sector recognizes for senior government expertise.
WHO FORTREX IS BUILT FOR
The Flag and General Officers who commanded at theater level. The SES executives and Deputy Assistant Secretaries who owned the budgets, the policy, and the decisions.
The Intelligence Community professionals — DIA, NSA, NGA, CIA, ODNI — whose work shaped what senior leaders knew and didn't know. The Special Operations and Combatant Command veterans whose careers were defined by execution under conditions most people never encounter.
If you built your career inside one of those worlds, the private sector needs what you built — and FORTREX is how it finds you.
WHO ENGAGES FORTREX
Our clients span every sector of American enterprise — defense contractors and Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms and emerging growth companies, healthcare systems and financial institutions, energy companies and technology firms, law firms and trade associations, and the boards and executive teams navigating an increasingly complex relationship with federal, state, and education policy, regulation, and oversight.
What they need is not a briefer. It is the person who ran the program, commanded the force, or owned the intelligence.
Every consequential business decision in America today intersects with government — through regulation, procurement, policy, national security, public health, infrastructure, or law. The organizations that understand that intersection have a decisive advantage over those that don't.
FORTREX exists for the ones who intend to have that advantage.
This is an opportunity to connect with private sector companies seeking your expertise, and to be in a network with your peers across the government.
This is NOT a staff position. FORTREX is expertise deployed on the member's terms, for the engagements they choose to accept, at the level their career demands.
WHAT FORTREX MATCHES YOU TO
Consulting assignments, board placements, fractional executive roles, and strategic advisory engagements — matched to your domain, your seniority, and your availability. Not what a recruiter thinks you're worth. What your career actually demands.
Engagements across defense, intelligence, national security, acquisition, cyber, space, energy, healthcare, and federal policy — with the organizations that need senior-level judgment, not general expertise.
FORTREX spans every agency, every branch, and every domain of American government. It operates to one standard. That standard has no exceptions.
AGENCIES AND BRANCHES
FORTREX draws from every corner of American government:
Department of Defense (War) — Joint Chiefs of Staff — Combatant Commands — Central Intelligence Agency — National Security Agency — Office of the Director of National Intelligence — Federal Bureau of Investigation — Department of Homeland Security — U.S. Secret Service — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — Department of Health and Human Services — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — Department of the Treasury — Internal Revenue Service — Federal Reserve System — Department of State — USAID — National Security Council — Department of Justice — NASA — United States Space Force — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — Department of Energy — National Laboratories — Department of Veterans Affairs — Department of Commerce — Department of Transportation — Federal Aviation Administration — Army Corps of Engineers — Environmental Protection Agency — Department of Labor — Department of Agriculture — Department of Education — Government Accountability Office — Office of Management and Budget — United States Senate — United States House of Representatives — and all U.S. missions and delegations abroad.
WHAT FORTREX PROVIDES
CURRENT FORTREX PROFESSIONALS INCLUDE
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff — Chief of Staff, United States Air Force — Commanding General, U.S. Army — Commander, Fleet Cyber Command — Deputy Commanding General, Army Cyber Command — Senior Space Operations Officer, United States Space Force — Senior Nuclear Security Advisor, NNSA — Colonel, Deputy Wing Commander — Senior Sanctions Advisor, Office of Foreign Assets Control — Executive Director, FBI — Deputy Administrator, Transportation Security Administration — Senior Foreign Affairs Officer, USAID — Chief Operations, Department of Veterans Affairs
THE EVALUATION
Every application is reviewed individually. Three gates. Acceptance is not guaranteed at any tier — Inner Circle, Praetorian, Centurion, Vanguard, or Auxiliary. FORTREX is selective by design, and that standard has no exceptions.
All applications are held in complete confidence.
This is not for everyone.
It was not designed to be.
If your career was built at the level described above — apply below.
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