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News, announcements, and updates from Helicon Defense on responsible allied defense technology transition.

AnnouncementJune 23, 2026

Helicon Defense begins URC 2026 outreach to support responsible allied transition pathways

Nataliya Meyer (Polyushkevych) is in Poland around the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 to support Helicon Defense’s outreach to Ukrainian and allied defense-industry stakeholders. Her focus is on listening, relationship-building, and identifying responsible pathways for IP protection, legal structure, allied manufacturing, and U.S./allied defense transition for qualified technologies.

Helicon Defense is developing a U.S.-based transition capability for qualified Ukrainian and allied technologies that are wartime-developed, customer-validated, or mission-relevant, but require a responsible pathway into U.S. and allied defense ecosystems. That pathway may include IP protection, legal and commercial structure, export-control awareness, trusted supply-chain review, component localization, manufacturing-readiness development, demonstration planning, and defense customer engagement.

Ukrainian innovators are solving urgent defense problems under real operational pressure. But moving those capabilities into U.S. and allied defense channels requires more than interest. It requires trust, (Intellectual Property) discipline, legal structure, compliance awareness, manufacturing realism, and a serious path to demonstration and adoption.

— David Sherrer, Founder & CEO, Helicon Defense

The Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 is being held in Gdańsk on June 25–26. Helicon’s work around the conference focuses on the defense-industrial transition layer: helping selected Ukrainian and allied capabilities move from field validation toward protected IP structures, allied manufacturing readiness, trusted supply chains, and U.S./allied customer pathways.

Meeting availability: initial discussions are limited to non-confidential summaries. Sensitive, proprietary, export-controlled, classified, (International Traffic in Arms Regulations)-controlled, (Export Administration Regulations)-controlled, or (Controlled Unclassified Information) should not be shared until appropriate review, (Non-Disclosure Agreement), and disclosure procedures are established.

New ResourceJune 22, 2026

Updated innovator and U.S.-partner brief packages

Two updated brief packages are now available to qualified parties: a Ukrainian-language brief for innovators considering U.S./allied transition, and an English brief for U.S. partners evaluating allied-origin technology programs. Both reflect direct feedback from Ukrainian defense industry advisors on what an honest, originator-respecting transition platform should and should not promise.

Initial conversations are not a fee trap. Helicon does not ask for sensitive technical data at intake. Originators remain the decision-makers on their own technology.

Download the public overview one-pager (PDF)

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