Arkenstone Defense provides the managed back-office infrastructure—compliance, HR, payroll, security, and contracting support—that helps technology companies enter, win, and scale in the U.S. federal market.

Founders

• Peter Dixon · Founder / Chief Executive Officer
  He founded Second Front Systems, described by Arkenstone as a unicorn defense-technology company; he was also a U.S. Marine Corps infantry and scout-sniper officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and later advised the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon.
• Rachel Olney · Founder / Chief Technology Officer
  She is an engineer-entrepreneur who founded a Y Combinator-backed geospatial company serving the Department of Defense that was acquired in 2024, conducted doctoral research on innovation within U.S. Cyber Command, taught Space as a Domain of Warfare at Stanford, and developed innovation processes for U.S. special-operations teams.
• William Treseder · Founder / Chief Operations Officer
  He brings more than two decades of experience across national security, defense innovation, and compliance; is an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and Marine Innovation Unit reservist; and is a co-founder of BMNT who helped launch Hacking for Defense.