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Poland – CEE (Central Eastern Europe)

Strategic advisory for defense. At the intersection of strategy, industry, and public institutions — we help partners build sustainable long-term presence in Poland's most regulated sectors.

Operating Model

A senior, institutionally-aware advisory. Structural insight, disciplined execution, enduring institutional relationships.

In highly regulated and strategically sensitive sectors, success requires more than advisory support. It demands a way of operating. Three principles define ours.

Who We Are

  • Team of 10+ senior consultants and advisors
  • Military, policy, and commercial expertise
  • Focused on defense and strategic sectors
  • Trusted, long-term advisory relationships

How We Operate

  • Institutional-grade discretion and discipline
  • Structured, lifecycle-based engagement model
  • Alignment with national capability priorities
  • Integrated legal, operational, political awareness

Our Strategic Value

  • Deep understanding of Poland's decision-making ecosystems
  • Access to institutional and industrial stakeholders
  • Cross-sector perspective: defense, industry, dual-use
  • Strategic positioning beyond transactional consulting
Operating philosophy SECTOR ACTIVE
Service Portfolio

Six services. One coherent engagement model — from strategic positioning through execution and long-term sustainment.

Strategic Planning

Design and implementation of strategic roadmaps enabling sustainable transformation and long-term positioning within the defense sector.

Facilitating Market Entry

Tailored market entry strategies aligned with Poland's defense capability priorities and institutional decision-making structures.

Operational & Legal Support

Comprehensive operational, legal and commercial support across the project lifecycle — from initial structuring and contracting through execution and long-term sustainment.

Establishing Partnerships

Facilitation of strategic industrial partnerships to enable technology transfer, local capability development, and long-term collaboration.

Stakeholder Management

Strategic assessment and mapping of stakeholder ecosystems to optimize relationship management, advocacy efforts, and market positioning.

R&D Project Assistance

Advisory coordination support for R&D programs and advancing next-generation technologies and dual-use solutions.

Selected Defense Projects

Across the major capability lines. Naval, land, air, drone defense, training, and analytics.

All In progress Completed
COMPLETED

Frigate Project

PMO oversight and institutional support. Contributed to the consolidation of military works and the organizational transformation of the Polish Naval Shipyard.

Naval · PMO · transformation
COMPLETED

Attack Helicopter

Advisory support from inception through selection phase. Strategic stakeholder management, institutional coordination, and development of sustainable local industrial partnerships.

Rotary · stakeholder · partnerships
IN PROGRESS

Main Battle Tank

Successful development and implementation of market-entry and B2G positioning strategies. Operational, legal and commercial support delivered across the full project lifecycle.

Land · B2G · full lifecycle
IN PROGRESS

Air Defense & Anti-Armor

Strategic advisory support, stakeholder mapping and political monitoring. Continuously facilitates institutional dialogue and supports partner participation in key technical modernization programs.

Air defense · modernization
COMPLETED

ORKA Submarine Program

Delivered stakeholder and political environment analysis, including institutional and research partners. Final strategic assessment covering decision-making dynamics and forward-looking recommendations.

Naval · political environment
IN PROGRESS

C-UAS System Development

Comprehensive business proposal — financing structure, market research and milestone planning. Coordinating development of a modular C-UAS system with a key Polish public-sector stakeholder.

Drone defense · modular · R&D
IN PROGRESS

Training & Simulations

Strategic advisory to companies delivering military training, wargaming, simulation and AI-based solutions. Market research, program development and partnership structuring.

Simulations · AI · dual-use
IN PROGRESS

Defense & Security Analytics

OSINT-based defense and security analysis supporting strategic decision-making. Analytical assessments on geopolitical, industrial and capability developments, with think-tank partners.

OSINT · geopolitical · analytics
Adjacent sectors EXPANSION READY
Adjacent Sectors

Built for sectors where institutional fluency and structural insight outperform transactional consulting.

Energy

Strategic positioning across regulated energy transitions, national capability priorities, and long-cycle institutional decision frameworks.

Infrastructure

Advisory across national infrastructure programs — long-horizon projects where political environment, lifecycle governance and stakeholder alignment determine outcomes.

New Technologies

Dual-use and emerging technology advisory — AI, autonomous systems, advanced sensing. Bridging commercial innovation with sovereign capability programs.

Leadership

Senior leadership. Decades across military, policy and commercial domains.

STRIKE Group is a consortium of Merzel Consulting and Aleksandrowicz Services, combining deep institutional experience in defence acquisition and public-sector decision-making with strategic consulting expertise in industrial partnerships, market entry, and B2G and B2B positioning.

We support international and domestic companies operating in Poland and the wider CEE region across the full project lifecycle — from market entry and opportunity assessment to stakeholder mapping, partner identification, strategic positioning, and operational implementation support. Our work helps clients understand the market, navigate institutional and procurement environments, build the right local partnerships, and turn strategic opportunities into executable projects.

Contact

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