We help defense companies build what actually works, and test it where it has to.

Who we work with

Investors

Defense and security funds testing whether a thesis survives contact with how this war is actually fought.

Startups

Defense startups and scale-ups holding a product and an assumption about the battlefield, who would rather check it before the roadmap hardens around it.

Government

Policy stakeholders who need the operational picture underneath the headline, and the specifics that procurement decisions actually turn on.

Institutions

Military and security institutions studying how force employment, training and integration have changed since 2022.

Partners

Anyone exploring Ukraine-linked defense innovation who needs a way in that is not a trade-show booth.

What we do

We dig into the problem you are trying to solve, and answer it from the battlefield rather than from around it.

• Efficacy

  What actually works in modern warfare, and what does not?

• Scale

  Which technologies scale under combat stress?

• Assumptions

  Where do Western assumptions break against reality?

• Tempo

  How fast do innovation cycles really move in war conditions?

Across UAVs, counter-UAS, electronic warfare, ISR, autonomy, logistics, training models, digital situational awareness and force integration.

Services

• Research

  Defense-tech market research

  Users, units, integrators, procurement logic and the competitors already in the field.

  Remote

• Access

  Direct access to end users

  Military units, volunteer technology networks and field operators. The people who would carry your system, not a proxy for them.

  In Ukraine

• Validation

  Product and concept validation

  Hardware, software and dual-use systems, checked against what the environment actually does to them.

  Either

• Field

  Live testing in Ukraine

  Structured field feedback from real operators, on the training grounds and in combat.

  In Ukraine

• Strategy

  Go-to-market insight

  Adoption cycles, integration challenges and the operational bottlenecks that decide whether anything gets fielded.

  Remote

How it arrives

Briefings

Online or onsite, presented rather than emailed as a deck.

Test reports

Field-driven, with the conditions of the test stated plainly enough that you can judge them yourself.

Debriefs

Structured user interviews and operator debriefs, in the operators' own terms.

Network

Beyond insight, we connect you to the people who have lived these lessons.

Practitioners

Military operators who employ these systems under fire, not in a demonstration.

Engineers

Defense technologists building and iterating inside the same week the feedback arrives.

Integrators

Ukrainian manufacturers who buy in components and build systems around them. On a component sale these are the customer, not the audience.

Because these relationships are real rather than transactional, we can open them for learning, partnership and co-creation, not only for briefings.

How this works

Our strength is the network, not a report template.

Through active duty and close partnership with Ukraine's defense community, IDDC keeps a continuous connection to frontline realities, emerging operational needs and technology that changes faster than it can be written down. We can tell you what is likely to work here and what is not. We can test it and hand back structured feedback. We can extend the network to you, and you take it from there if you want to. Wrapping that in a consulting model is what keeps it a fair exchange for everyone involved.

Who we are

Dimko Zhluktenko

Active-duty member of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, public defense-tech practitioner and former IT tech lead. Works directly with new UAV, electronic warfare and battlefield systems in real operational environments.

Iryna Zhluktenko

Director of Dzyga's Paw, a large Ukrainian national security NGO, and a data analyst.

Together

Engineering, analytics, operations and a large network of operators on the ground. The same system read two ways at once: a bird's-eye view, and the under-the-microscope breakdown.

IDDC is built on the experience and network the two of us have developed since 2022.