Ad Astra Group's Industrial Base Hackathons are monthly working sessions, across different U.S. cities, convening senior leadership and experts from government, capital, industry, and academia in the same room to identify and solve specific bottlenecks across America's critical supply chains.

Each participant holds a slice of the system that no one else in the room can see, and together they build a complete, shared picture of reality that doesn't exist anywhere else, making solutions legible enough for capital to flow, operators to act, and policy to change.

100 curated participants are placed on cross-domain teams, each assigned a specific bottleneck, and guided through root cause analysis and solution phases. Every hackathon intentionally spans multiple domains and critical sectors to surface the force multipliers, the upstream constraints that, if resolved, unblock the greatest number of downstream supply chains.

After each hackathon, Ad Astra Group conducts six weeks of further research and analysis. Outcomes are shared in our Results section and through an Industrial Base ecosystem knowledge graph. Each hackathon cycle builds on the last, making the patterns across the industrial base undeniable.