Polemarchoi helps industry and government work together to move ideas, innovations, materials, and products into the hands of the people who need them.
Our team brings senior government, military, entrepreneurial, technical, and financial experience to complex problems. We build actionable strategies, engage decision-makers, secure capital, and connect vetted capability to mission demand.
Connect vetted industrial capability to operators, program offices, government leaders, and institutional partners.
Form and execute local, state, federal, and international government-relations and policy strategies.
Identify and pursue grants, loans, guarantees, public programs, venture capital, and strategic investment.
Rapidly analyze the operation, identify the missing piece, and provide a practical sequence of decisions and actions.
Strengthen domestic and allied routes for raw materials, processing, manufacturing, logistics, and end use.
Carry campaigns, submissions, partnerships, financing, and contracting efforts through to a decision.
Operational capability, acquisition strategy, government engagement, and the industrial base.
Domestic and allied resources, processing, recovery, stockpiles, and secure off-take.
Nuclear fuel, advanced energy, fertilizer minerals, research, and project deployment.
Metals technology, additive manufacturing, recycling, and midstream conversion.
Policy architecture, appropriations, legislation, institutions, and decision support.
Public and private financing, market entry, partnerships, and competitive positioning.
The portfolio includes every current and completed engagement we can describe publicly, organized by sector and the workflow Polemarchoi carried. Client names, protected scopes, outcomes, and references remain available to qualified counterparties under NDA.
Work for developers, producers, recyclers, processors, mining-service providers, and commodity companies across tungsten, uranium, silver, antimony, gallium, cobalt, nickel, copper, scandium, phosphate, potash, lithium, and exploration technology.
Defense positioning and commercialization strategy for solid-state metal reduction, alloy-powder production, additive manufacturing, and advanced-processing capability.
Research-to-deployment programs, university critical-minerals initiatives, national-security data and policy work, and standing advisory roles where industrial and public priorities are formed.
Mandates spanning AI and machine learning, autonomous maritime systems, space software, data operations, naval intelligence, border security, working-canine programs, thermal systems, signals, and spectrum.
Dennis Bartow · Founder & CEODennis Bartow is a decorated, service-disabled retired U.S. Army combat veteran — 29 years of honorable service, 23 of them in support of Army Special Forces and Special Operations units — and a former senior official of the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Policy, the Department's most senior official dedicated to Africa policy, advising the Secretary of Defense, helping lead the Department's global strategic-competition effort, overseeing the writing of its Great Power Competition strategy, and standing among the plank owners of the Prosper Africa interagency framework. As Director of the DoD Office of Small Business Programs, he was the Secretary's principal advisor on small business, leading a network of more than seven hundred professionals across a fifth of all defense procurement. Earlier: INTERPOL Washington — identity intelligence and a five-nation Gulf of Guinea counter-piracy program — and five years of congressional staff service, with senior staff and advisory roles reaching the White House, Senate, and House.
He founded Polemarchoi — named for the senior military leaders of the Greek world — as the strategic advisory firm serving companies where defense, energy, and strategic materials meet. What began as counsel became a platform: six years in the minerals space, from Defense Production Act, DOE Loan Programs, and EXIM financing campaigns to commodity trading, project development, and now ownership of the assets themselves.
Today he is Founder, President & CEO of all three companies; Senior Advisor to the DARPA Critical Minerals Forum; Advisor to the Duke University Critical Minerals Hub; and works with the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and its National Security Data and Policy Institute. The team he leads is drawn from military, special-operations, and government backgrounds — service at the most sensitive and highest levels of government and industry.
The three companies are the arc of that career made permanent: Polemarchoi, the strategy. Polemetallon, the supply. Dīs Pater, the source.
Polemarchoi's principals work across commercial, legal, operational, technical, and investment questions as one integrated team. Each mandate is led by the people doing the work—not handed down through layers of account management.
Leads agreements, commercial structures, governance, collections, and partner diligence. As founder and CEO of OHD Partners, he also brings experience in sustainable infrastructure and cross-border development.
Runs the operating cadence behind the platform—coordinating priorities, diligence, meetings, travel, and deal execution across national-security, strategic-materials, and defense-technology work.
Advises on strategy and execution across critical-material, industrial-base, and market-development mandates, helping pressure-test opportunities and turn them into actionable partner and client workstreams.
Brings venture, technology, and company-building judgment. He is founder and CEO of Falkon Ventures, was part of LifeProof's founding team, and co-founded Citadel Drone Defense.
Mandates draw on a trusted network of former senior national-security officials, special-operations leaders, industrial operators, sanctions and compliance specialists, materials traders, project developers, and capital advisers. The bench is assembled for the mission; client and government relationships are never presented as company affiliations.
Every line of this work lives or dies on sanctions treatment, export controls, tariff exposure, and government pathways. Our edge is the discipline to screen honestly — and structure around the exposure rather than ignore it.
What cannot be cleared is declined. Walking away from exposure is a capability, not a cost.
What can be structured is structured — origin scrutiny, licensing pathways, counsel before movement.
What clears, moves — material competitors cannot touch, delivered to allied end users.
That screening discipline is why the material commands a premium, why government engages, and why the work matters strategically rather than merely commercially.
The portfolio is diverse; the operating motions repeat. Polemarchoi connects the right workflow to the right decision-maker and carries it through the public, financial, technical, and commercial system.
Agency strategy, appropriations, legislation, regulatory engagement, briefing campaigns, and decision-maker outreach.
Applications and strategy for grants, loans, guarantees, development finance, strategic investment, and venture capital.
Technical proposals, white papers, other-transaction pursuits, program-office positioning, and contract-vehicle strategy.
Raw-material access, processing, logistics, stockpile positioning, allied supply, qualified end users, and off-take pathways.
Competitive positioning, host and sovereign engagement, strategic partnerships, customer pathways, and capital-ready narratives.
Rapid operating assessment, policy intelligence, open-source analysis, technical framing, and a practical sequence of action.
By counsel. By command. By trust.
Government and institutional inquiries are answered by principals. State your interest plainly; we will do the same.