Metropole Diligence prepares defense-tech companies for the Department of War's foreign-risk reviews. We trace your ownership to its ultimate owners, screen every party, check people, patents and suppliers, and hand you a fix list and draft disclosures before you submit.
Foreign ties that once mattered only for classified work now decide ordinary awards. Reviews look back five years, and a denial doesn't always come with a reason.
Every Department of War SBIR and STTR proposal is screened for ties to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea across owners, money, people, patents and business relationships. Some ties bar an award outright.
A proposed DFARS rule would require beneficial ownership and foreign-influence disclosure from contractors and subcontractors, at any tier, on contracts above $5 million.
Extends Entity List restrictions to any company owned 50% or more by listed parties. Paused for now, and set to return unless extended again.
Every finding separates what the records show from how it is rated, and links to its source.
Ready, ready with disclosures, mitigate before applying, or not eligible pending changes, mapped to the government's own decision matrix.
Every investor, lender, affiliation, patent, customer and supplier we checked, with evidence. Clear items included.
Specific actions with owners and dates, all before your deadline, with the items that need counsel marked.
Plain, factual language for your proposal, ready for your counsel to finalize.
Software does the tracing, screening and cross-checking. An expert reviews every serious finding before it reaches you.
You share your cap table, investor agreements, team roster, patents and supplier list. Your team answers a 10-minute questionnaire.
We trace ownership, screen every party against restricted-party lists, and check what your team disclosed against the public record.
You get the verdict, the ledger, the fix list and draft disclosures, and a walkthrough with your team and counsel.
Applying for SBIR or STTR awards, or bidding on defense contracts. Find and fix issues on your own terms.
Keep your portfolio eligible for government work, and check new co-investors before a term sheet is signed.
Prepare for ownership and foreign-influence disclosure as primes push the requirements down the chain.
The Department of War now screens every SBIR and STTR applicant for ties to countries of concern, looking back five years across owners, investors, employees, patents and suppliers. A proposed rule would extend ownership disclosure to contracts above $5 million. These reviews protect American technology, and they should.
They are also hard to prepare for. Most founders meet the rules for the first time on a deadline, and a denial doesn't always explain itself. Metropole Diligence exists so companies find those issues first, fix what can be fixed, and disclose the rest with evidence they can stand behind.
A company with a fixable tie should fix it before the review, not learn about it after.
Cap tables, teams and supply chains change. Readiness should be monitored continuously, not rebuilt before every proposal.
An evidence-backed readiness profile that investors and prime contractors can rely on, in place of repeated questionnaires.
Complete, well-documented disclosures make reviewers' work faster and the whole system stronger.
Each finding cites the document or public record it came from. Where evidence is missing, we say so instead of guessing.
We assess specific affiliations, money and agreements. We never rate anyone by nationality, ethnicity or place of birth.
Software does the tracing and cross-checking. A person accountable for the result reviews every serious call.
Documents and questionnaire answers are used for your engagement alone and deleted on an agreed schedule.
We prepare and inform. Legal judgments and final disclosures stay with your lawyers.