Democracy · Freedom · Ethics

We connect government, industry, and academia to address national security priorities.

Through trusted, nonpartisan collaboration.

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Picture: Spades.

§ 01 · ORIGIN
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"Viking 25, contact 25 miles north, 22,000 feet, bogey. Spades."

A call from the controller to the pilot. Something is on radar — fast, closing, unknown. Not friendly. Not hostile. Just unidentified. Spades.

The word doesn't answer the question. It names it. And it kicks off the work of figuring it out.

That's what Spades Institute does — turn "we don't know" into "here's what we do." Cyber threats, AI risks, the gaps between agencies that aren't talking to each other: different scope, same problem.

We bring the right people together to work through it.

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The work.

§ 02 · POSTURE
01 / Convene

Rooms that don't exist elsewhere.

We get the right people together — from government, industry, and universities. No press. No politics. Just people who know what they're talking about.

02 / Translate

Insight into action.

What experts learn in those rooms gets turned into something useful — clear guidance and shared language that people can actually use the next day.

03 / Resolve

Ambiguity into action.

Cyber threats, AI risks, gaps between agencies — the problems that matter most rarely have easy answers. That's exactly where we work.

§ 03 · Connect

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