Fabius Group
Advisory · SDVOSB Acquisitions
We advise the defense industrial base, and we buy the veteran-owned firms that serve it.
Fabius Group is a service-disabled veteran-owned firm founded in 2026 with two lines of business. We advise airports, authorities and economic development agencies on how to site, structure and finance drone and defense manufacturing facilities. And we acquire service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) in federal contracting, giving founders who are ready to sell or step back a buyer who understands what they built.
Two lines of business
One firm, one industrial base, approached from both sides.
Siting, structuring and financing the facilities
Airports, authorities and economic development agencies bring us in when a drone or defense manufacturer wants to build. We work across every party to the deal, from the runway and the FAA rules to the incentives and the capital stack.
Buying service-disabled veteran-owned federal contractors
We acquire established SDVOSBs in federal contracting, by full buyout or majority recapitalization. Owners who are planning a sale, a retirement or a succession get a confidential conversation with a veteran-owned buyer.
A drone factory is not a real estate transaction.
It is a seven-party negotiation that happens to end in a lease — and it fails in the gaps between the parties, not inside any one of them.
The manufacturer needs runway, airspace, hangar geometry, power and an RF environment it can actually fly in, and usually cannot tell an airport which of those is negotiable. The airport owns the land but is bound by FAA grant assurances, rates-and-charges obligations and land-use compatibility standards that quietly disqualify the deal everyone just shook hands on. The state has incentive money and no independent technical read on the platform. The county controls entitlement and hears about the project last. The broker is paid on square footage. The banker prices the capital but cannot site the building.
Every party is competent. None of them is responsible for the deal. That gap is where projects stall for eighteen months, and it is the gap our advisory practice was formed to close.
The seven parties
What each one brings, and where each one breaks.
Drone manufacturers
Bring the demand and the technical requirement. Break on asking for a building when what they actually need is airspace, a test corridor and three-phase power.
Airports
Bring the land, the runway and the operating certificate. Break on grant assurances and rates-and-charges rules that make an intuitive deal non-compliant.
State governments
Bring incentives, workforce funding and site-readiness programs. Break on having no independent technical read on whether the platform, or the company, is real.
County governments
Bring entitlement, zoning, permitting and the tax base. Break on learning about the project after the terms have already been set without them.
The federal government
Sets the demand signal — programs, appropriations, contract vehicles — that the entire facility is underwritten against. Breaks on a demand signal nobody has translated into financeable offtake.
Real estate brokers
Bring market access and tenant flow. Break on being compensated for square footage in a transaction whose hard parts are airspace, compliance and capital structure.
Bankers and lenders
Bring the capital and the structure. Break on underwriting a pre-revenue tenant against a lease term nobody has stress-tested.
What it takes to hold all seven
Six disciplines, in one firm, applied to one deal.
Airport-Specific Expertise
Grant assurances, rates and charges, through-the-fence agreements, land-use compatibility.
Aerospace Engineering
Reading a platform's real requirements — runway, airspace, hangar, power, RF.
Financial Engineering & Capital Markets
PropCo/OpCo, ground lease, bonds, venture debt, equipment finance.
Real Estate Development
Entitlement, site work, build-to-suit, schedule, and who carries which risk.
Tenant Representation Connectivity
Access to the brokerage networks where tenant demand surfaces first.
State & Local Government Relations
Incentives, county approvals, economic development — sequenced so they don't collide.
Research
One white paper a month, on how capacity actually gets sited, structured and financed.
Financing the New Industrial Base
August 2026. Equity has an interest rate — it just never sends an invoice. What the money really costs, and how to match each asset to the capital shaped like its cash flows.
Read the paperStart the conversation.
If you are an airport, an authority or an economic development agency looking at an aerospace manufacturing tenant, or the owner of a service-disabled veteran-owned federal contractor thinking about what comes next, the first conversation is confidential and costs nothing.
Contact Fabius Group