Mission Acceleration Center

Scaling Innovation
Across The
Department of War.

The national front door to the Department of War — connecting innovators, capital, and operators across the country to the warfighter.

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Trusted by Mission Partners Across the Department of War

Our Mission

Accelerate technology to the warfighter by being the nexus of people, capabilities and capital.Ensure The Unfair Advantage

Connect

Operators, primes, founders, and capital — aligned around real warfighter requirements.

Accelerate

Programs, demonstrations, and capital pathways that compress years into months.

Transition

Move dual-use technology from prototype to fielded capability at the speed of relevance.

By the Numbers

A national ecosystem, anchored in Phoenix.

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Secured by MAC-Supported Companies

Companies Supported

DoW Organizations Served

Unique Solutions Identified

Headquarters

Anchored in Phoenix.
National in Focus.

MAC is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona — but our mission reaches coast to coast. As the front door to DoW, we coordinate a national security innovation ecosystem that connects operators, investors, primes, and frontier-tech founders across the country to the right partners for rapid, scalable transition of emerging technologies to the warfighter.

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MAC Programs

Repeatable pathways from idea to fielded capability.

Market Research

Identifying frontier dual-use technology and emerging companies aligned to validated DoW operational needs.

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Solutions Workshops

Curated sessions where operators, primes, and founders pressure-test capabilities against real warfighter requirements.

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Dual-Use Accelerator

Powered by Fuse Ventures, our accelerator connects scale-stage startups with the mentorship, capital, and networks to win enterprise customers and government contracts.

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Field Demonstrations

Live, range-grade demonstration opportunities — Vanguard, counter-UAS series, autonomy trials, and dual-use showcases.

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MAC Initiatives

Convenings and hubs powering the national ecosystem.

Arizona Defense

Connecting six military installations, 2,500+ defense contractors, and 350,000 students and researchers across Arizona's defense ecosystem.

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Manifest West

Flagship invitation-only summit convening defense, capital, and frontier technology leaders to rebuild America's industrial base.

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Events

Year-round convenings, networking, and ecosystem activations across the national security innovation community.

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Who We Serve

Building the Defense Innovation Ecosystem.

We are committed to propelling advancements and cultivating growth within the national security innovation ecosystem. Our specialized environment is crafted to bolster and expedite.

We must ensure adversarial leadership wakes up every day, considers the risks of aggression, and concludes, "today is not the day." Innovation is vital to how we do that. Just as in any enterprise, our innovation focus has a customer. And here, our main customer is the warfighter.

Senior Department of War Leadership

Partner With Us

Ensure the
Unfair Advantage

Become an active member of the MAC defense ecosystem. If you are a Defense Mission Partner, Technology Company, Defense Tech Investor or Academic — we want to partner with you.

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Scaling Innovation
Across The
Department of War.