ABDA’s middle name is “Business Development”! From helping to find and qualify leads; setting up and executing customer contact plans; ‘shaping’ the opportunity; defining proposal win themes and post-contract award customer support—ABDA is the most cost-effective BD help you can secure. We do more than open doors. At ABDA we work in concert with your BD team to leverage our decades of successful DoD and industry experience for your benefit.

Only after we customize and finalize your company’s retainer agreement. Complementary initial consult sessions with your team is our way to ensure our services will match your expectations. Once we have an agreement, ABDA works on a monthly days/month level of effort agreement customized for your BD requirements.

Absolutely! ABDA is a small business! In fact, our clients span the spectrum of defense companies. From multi-billion-dollar annual revenue defense companies down to mid-sized to small companies with a small number of employees. We do however have significant expertise working with the Department of Defense specific awards dedicated to small business contracts. ABDA can help you work all of the facets needed to be successful with small business contracts like SBIRs and identify other opportunities to multiply your revenue.

Contact us. We will set up a free consultation to get the dialogue started. When you are ready for our help, we move fast—if you want to be on contract in a day or two, we can accommodate! Our consultation will review ABDA’s unmatched value proposition and work with your team to match your programs and goals to where we can be most effective. Our goal is to craft a flexible statement of work to directly support your BD programs and campaigns and then turn the plan into reality.

ABDA’s main headquarters is less than a 5-minute car ride from our office to most of the AFLCMC and AFRL offices and facilities. And about a 10-minute ride to AFMC HQ. Our brick-and-mortar office has ample workspace for our clients to use, free of charge, whenever they have meetings and work in/around WPAFB, including a fully equipped conference room. When you are at WPAFB, the ABDA main office is at your service.

When you hire one person, one person will be paid for 160 hours/month on average, and will need an office, a vacation, medical, maybe a bonus, a 401K, maybe an annual raise--and many other expenses to cover. And they will be one person, with no-one in the area to cover responsibilities when they take a vacation, no one to help with contact plans, and have just their ‘Rolodex’ and the intellectual property they have the day they are hired. They will more than likely require some spin-up time to get fully up to speed with the complexities of the AFMC ecosystem.

When you hire ABDA, you hire the ABDA Team. You bring on our team rolodex—built up over 30+ years of experience with the USAF, AFMC, and the Defense Industry. You bring on a potential pool of diverse subject matter expertise available to you on Day One. You bring on an extension of your BD team ready on Day 1. And your expense is a fraction of the cost of one full-time equivalent (FTE.)

Sorry, no. We do not share our client lists with anyone. Keeping confidentiality and proprietary information secure is one of our most important corporate attributes. We are happy, however, to set up a no-charge consult with your team to discuss how ABDA can help you expand your BD efforts.

We do not work on commission but a retainer we consider an industry best value proposition. Our business development processes are focused on building the right relationships and engagements to support our client’s business and growth objectives.