A uniquely-DC founder workshop: how the federal appropriations and non-dilutive funding machine actually works, run at STATION DC, the Capital Factory-powered hub for frontier- and defense-tech founders at Union Market. If you're building anything the government buys — defense, govtech, space, energy — understanding earmarks, SBIRs and program-of-record money is leverage most founders never learn. The room is the DC ecosystem's operators, ex-government dealmakers and the founders chasing federal contracts.

  • workshop
  • govtech
  • defense-tech
  • fundraising
  • non-dilutive
  • founder