“[Alternative proposals]... leaves so much open to new defense companies to come in and disrupt big acquisition programs.”
— Arsenal of Freedom Address, November 7, 2025
Small businesses face a brutal paradox: from 2011-2020, DoD spending on small business contracts increased yet 40% of small businesses left the market, deterred by 5,000 pages of regulations, relationship-driven procurement favoring incumbents, and only a few firms out of thousands, successfully reaching prime contractor status. GRAIL Alliance reduces these barriers by providing platform access with pay-when-you-win success fees, replacing expensive costs that block SME participation. The platform will enable pursuit of more opportunities with the same resources. GRAIL's operationalizes the shift from relationship-based to merit-based contracting. The "complete once, share with many" compliance profiles eliminate redundant work across opportunities, while the platform's reveals previously invisible opportunities across 32 NATO nations, 3 AUKUS partners, and key allies.
Merit Competition
Opportunity matching and transparent qualification processes enable superior technology to win on merit versus incumbent relationships.
Accessible Tools
GRAIL Platform provides tools, analysis and visibility to assist members in reducing the burden of pursuing and participating in proposals. Enables members to focus on the next opportunity, the next innovation, and the next breakthrough contributing to the combined defense of Allied nations.
Market Access
Single platform provides visibility across entire allied defense market (32 NATO nations, AUKUS partners, key allies) with automated opportunity aggregation from multiple sources, replacing monitoring scattered portals with focused intelligent matching.
