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Elliott Broidy on Leadership, Investment, and the Future of Defense Tech

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This article was originally published in Time Business News on November 14, 2025.

We recently sat down for a conversation with Elliott Broidy, an entrepreneur who has used his extensive experience and talent to found, invest in, and, in some cases, manage as CEO, more than 160 companies over his four-decade career. Since 2014, he has focused on technology businesses (including, more recently, AI) in the defense intelligence, homeland security, public safety, and law enforcement sectors. He is the Chairman and CEO of Broidy Capital Holdings, LLC, founded in 2022 in Boca Raton, FL, and its predecessor, Broidy Capital Management, headquartered in Los Angeles from 1991 to 2022. Mr. Broidy is the founder and Managing Partner of Threat Deterrence Capital Holdings, LLC and LEO Technologies Holdings, LLC.

Broidy’s commitment to public safety and the security of the United States and its allies has shaped both his career and philanthropy. Following 9/11, he redirected his business focus toward security and defense technology, driven by a mission to protect both the United States and its allies. This dedication to national security continues to guide his investment strategy and technological innovation in the defense sector.

In the following interview, we cover Elliott Broidy’s insights on business, security, and technology investments.

Q: What fundamental changes have you observed in defense technology over your career?

Elliott Broidy: The most fascinating shift has been the democratization of innovation in the defense sector. When I started my career, breakthrough technologies typically emerged from government labs or established defense contractors. Today, we’re seeing transformative solutions coming from startups, AI researchers, and commercial tech companies. This has fundamentally changed how we approach security challenges. What’s particularly interesting is how commercial technologies are being adapted for defense applications, rather than the other way around – a complete reversal from historical patterns. This shift has made the integration of civilian and defense technology development more important than ever.

Q: How do you evaluate potential investments in the defense tech sector?

Elliott Broidy: My evaluation process has evolved significantly over the years. Beyond the typical metrics of market size and growth potential, I look closely at three critical factors. First, does the technology meaningfully enhance human capabilities rather than trying to replace them entirely? Second, how flexible is the solution – can it adapt to emerging threats and changing operational needs? And third, perhaps most importantly, does the team understand both the technical and operational aspects of their solution? I’ve found that the most successful investments come from teams that deeply understand the day-to-day realities of their end users, not just the technology they’re developing.

Q: What role do you see AI playing in the future of defense and public safety?

Elliott Broidy: AI’s potential in defense and public safety goes far beyond what most people imagine. The real power lies not in replacing human judgment, but in enhancing our ability to process and understand vast amounts of information in real time. What excites me most is how AI can serve as a force multiplier for analysts and operators in the field. For instance, when analyzing large datasets, AI can quickly identify patterns and anomalies that would take human analysts weeks or months to discover. But the key is maintaining the right balance – AI should augment human expertise, not attempt to replace it. This means developing systems that provide actionable insights while leaving critical decision-making in human hands.

Q: How do you balance innovation with practical implementation when developing security solutions?

Elliott Broidy: The truth is, the most innovative solution isn’t always the most effective one. I’ve learned that successful implementation often comes down to understanding the operational environment where the technology will be used. You have to consider factors like existing workflows, training requirements, and system integration. I always tell my teams that a slightly less sophisticated solution that works seamlessly within existing systems is far more valuable than a cutting-edge technology that creates operational friction. It’s about finding the sweet spot between pushing technological boundaries and ensuring practical, day-to-day usability.

Q: What advice would you give to entrepreneurs looking to enter the defense technology space?

Elliott Broidy: Success in this sector requires a unique combination of innovation and pragmatism. Many entrepreneurs come in thinking it’s all about having the most advanced technology, but that’s only part of the equation. What’s equally crucial is understanding the regulatory and compliance landscape – it’s complex but essential to navigate effectively. I also encourage entrepreneurs to think carefully about team composition. The most successful ventures I’ve seen combine technical innovators with people who have deep operational experience in the field. And perhaps most importantly, focus on building sustainable, scalable solutions rather than chasing quick wins. The defense sector values reliability and longevity over rapid but unstable innovation. If you’re in this space, you need to be thinking about long-term impact and dependability.

Q: How do you see private sector investment in defense technology evolving over the next decade?

Elliott Broidy: We’re entering an incredibly dynamic period in defense technology investment. The pace of technological change continues to accelerate, and we’re seeing new threats emerge that require innovative solutions. I believe we’ll see increased collaboration between traditional defense contractors and emerging tech companies, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data analytics. The key to success will be maintaining focus on real-world impact rather than just technological advancement. The most effective investments will be those that enhance existing capabilities while enabling new ones, always with an eye toward actual operational needs. The companies that succeed will be those that can adapt quickly to emerging threats while maintaining the reliability and integration capabilities that this sector demands.

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Elliott Broidy on National Security Tech, Defense Tech, and Commercial Innovation

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By Hassan Javed
The frontline of innovation increasingly runs through the private sector. Startups and growth-stage companies are building capabilities—cloud, AI/ML, sensors, data fusion—that now underpin the United States’ most critical missions. That overlap between national security tech, commercial R&D, and public safety technology is where outcomes are decided: intelligence processed faster, decisions made sooner, and threats deterred more effectively.

Elliott Broidy and Broidy Capital Holdings

Elliott Broidy is the Chairman and CEO of Broidy Capital Holdings, LLC, founded in 2022 in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm builds on the legacy of its predecessor, Broidy Capital Management—headquartered in Los Angeles from 1991 to 2022—by investing in technology businesses, including companies using Artificial Intelligence, that serve defense intelligence, homeland security, public safety, and law-enforcement sectors. Broidy is also the founder and Managing Partner of Threat Deterrence Capital Holdings, LLC and LEO Technologies Holdings, LLC, reflecting a long-term commitment to advancing mission-critical solutions in defense tech and public safety.

Why National Security Tech Now Comes From the Private Sector

Federal acquisition cycles used to favor monolithic platforms. Today, mission owners need speed, interoperability, and modularity. Commercial vendors provide all three:

  • Cloud & data pipelines move classified and unclassified workloads securely, enabling joint operations and multi-domain awareness.
  • AI/ML accelerates analysis—triaging video, audio, and telemetry at machine speed—so analysts focus on decisions, not data wrangling.
  • Edge computing & sensors extend detection, attribution, and response to the tactical edge, from border security to first responders.

For agencies, the value is clear: faster deployment, lower life-cycle cost, and a continuous upgrade path that keeps pace with adversaries.

Defense Tech Meets Public Safety Technology

The same building blocks that transform national defense also strengthen communities:

  • Real-time voice and video analytics help corrections, policing, and emergency management identify risks and respond sooner.
  • Interoperable communications connect dispatch, EMS, and law enforcement during fast-moving incidents.
  • AI-enabled triage prioritizes limited resources during crises and mass-casualty events.

This is where Broidy Capital Holdings focuses: scaling companies that translate proven defense tech into practical public safety technology—without compromising privacy, civil liberties, or legal process.

Responsible AI: Performance and Public Trust

Adoption hinges on trust. Programs that succeed pair performance with governance:

  • Human-in-the-loop design to keep accountability with trained operators.
  • Bias testing & auditability so models meet legal and ethical standards.
  • Data minimization & retention controls that respect statutory and constitutional limits.
  • Clear outcomes communication so communities understand benefits and safeguards.

Elliott Broidy’s investment approach prioritizes vendors that can demonstrate both mission impact and responsible-use frameworks—because durable advantage requires public legitimacy as well as technical excellence.

The Broidy Advantage: Capital + Mission Expertise

What separates successful mission tech from interesting prototypes is translation: aligning product roadmaps with real requirements and acquisition reality. Elliott Broidy and Broidy Capital Holdings bring:

  • Operator empathy: products shaped around how analysts, investigators, and officers actually work.
  • Path to fielding: contracting models, pilots, and authority-to-operate strategies that reduce time-to-mission.
  • Scale discipline: security, compliance, and support models that survive enterprise deployment.

That blend of capital and operating guidance is why portfolio companies in national security technology, defense tech, and public safety technology can move from demo to deployment faster.

What Agencies and Founders Should Do Next

For agencies: prioritize modular buys that let you test, measure, and scale. Demand transparent AI governance, red-team results, and clear operator training plans.

For founders: design for mission outcomes, not feature lists. Prove your value in controlled pilots; measure it; publish it. Build compliance and logging early. And communicate—clearly and consistently—how your technology strengthens safety while protecting rights.

The Throughline

America’s strategic edge depends on translating commercial ingenuity into operational advantage. Leaders like Elliott Broidy are helping the most promising companies cross that last mile from prototype to program, advancing national security tech, defense tech, and community-level public safety technology in the process.

 

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Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders’ Qatar haven was an overdue act of justice

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Tuesday’s morning blasts in the Katara district of Doha, Qatar, shattered more than glass — they shattered the illusion that masterminds of mass murder can recline in five-star safety and call it “diplomacy.”

Israel’s precision strike against the leadership of Hamas, men who plotted the Oct. 7 atrocities from hotel suites, wasn’t “escalation” but overdue justice.

For nearly two years, Hamas’ external brass directed a genocidal war from Qatar’s luxury bubble.

Khaled Mashaal, Khalil al-Hayya, Zaher Jabarin and their cohort haven’t been exiles.

They’ve been executives running a war room in Doha while Gazans bled and Israeli families buried their dead.

That bifurcation of risk — fighters in tunnels, bosses in penthouses — have created a moral hazard on a civilizational scale.

The strike ended it: Terror’s leadership now carries the danger it earned.

It’s a reminder that no luxury suite, no friendly emirate and no diplomatic fiction can shield terrorists from accountability.

Qatar’s role hasn’t been mediation but enablement.

Since 2012, Doha has funneled roughly $1.8 billion into Hamas-ruled Gaza, including monthly $30 million cash drops right up to the eve of Oct. 7.

The theater of it was almost comical as suitcases were counted at crossings, stuffed with money labeled “humanitarian aid,” then siphoned to the Qassam Brigades for rockets, tunnels and terror.

Add state-provided tech infrastructure, banking channels and the propaganda megaphone of Al Jazeera, and you get a five-star command center masquerading as diplomacy.

This wasn’t just Israel’s problem.

When one state hosts the operational headquarters of a group bent on another state’s annihilation, it torpedoes the basic rules of international order.

UN Security Council Resolution 1373 tells states to deny safe haven to terrorists.

Qatar gave terrorists luxury suites, media airtime and a diplomatic sheen.

Meanwhile, the United States kept its largest regional base on Qatari soil — an arrangement that asked Americans to protect the protector of those who kill American allies.

Have-it-both-ways geopolitics met its limit Tuesday.

Militarily, Doha was Hamas’ center of gravity.

Its office there handled encrypted communications, money flows, foreign coordination — everything Gaza’s battlefield couldn’t sustain.

It also manufactured a fiction of legitimacy as “political” leaders held court with foreign delegations while their fighters bragged they’d repeat the massacre “again and again.”

So long as the head stayed safe, the serpent could shed skin in Gaza and grow anew.

Now Israel has sent a blunt message: No more safe harbor, not in Damascus, Beirut or Doha.

The timing wasn’t rash. Immediate retaliation after Oct. 7 would have looked like an emotional response.

Instead, Israel fought, negotiated, paused — again and again — while Hamas rejected proposals to free all hostages and to end the war.

Its veto didn’t come from a tunnel; it came from Doha.

Over time, complacency crept into the leaders’ safe-house routines, and patterns emerged as intelligence matured.

When the window opened, Israel used a scalpel, not a sledgehammer — an operation with the hallmarks of Mossad’s patient buildout and the Air Force’s precision, likely from platforms designed to evade regional defenses.

And it’s scrambled the strategic board, exposing Qatar’s “indispensable mediator” act as leverage theater.

Until now, the more Hamas provoked, the more Doha mattered. Not anymore.

Hosting Hamas now carries costs, and regional actors must recalibrate.

Those who chose normalization with Israel over nihilism feel validated; those providing sanctuary to Israel’s enemies understand the new risk calculus

Inside Gaza, where Hamas’ promise of “steadfastness” has yielded devastation, the myth of its inevitable victory is collapsing along with the tunnels.

As for the predictable handwringing about “sovereignty” and “escalation,” sovereignty doesn’t protect a state that runs valet service for genocidal planners.

Escalation? This battle began when families were burned alive on Oct. 7.

The only way to end a war led by leaders immune to consequences is to make consequences real.

Inevitably, what comes next is clarity.

Hamas must surrender unconditionally and release every hostage.

Qatar must choose: Expel Hamas’ remaining operatives and shut the money spigot — or accept the stigma and consequences of sponsoring terror.

The international community can spare its lectures and simply enforce the obligations it has already signed: no safe havens, no financial lifelines, no diplomatic fig leaves for mass murder.

The blasts in Doha didn’t expand the war, but narrowed it — by hitting the sanctuary that’s kept it alive.

Israel reminded the region of the hard truth that deterrence is not a press release but the certainty that killers will be found.

The age of consequence-free terrorism is over.

And the men who turned five-star suites into a war room finally learned what justice sounds like.

Gregg Roman is executive director of the Middle East Forum.

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Examining Trends in National Security and Defense Tech with Elliott Broidy

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As the need for innovative technology in the national security space grows, the relevant federal agencies are increasingly relying on innovations created by commercial private sector.

Few understand this intersection better than Elliott Broidy, Chairman and CEO of Broidy Capital Holdings, LLC, a seasoned entrepreneur and investor with extensive experience in national security technology and defense tech. Founded in 2022 in Boca Raton, FL, Broidy Capital Holdings builds on the legacy of its predecessor, Broidy Capital Management, which was headquartered in Los Angeles from 1991 to 2022. The firm invests in technology businesses — including those using Artificial Intelligence — that focus on defense intelligence, homeland security, public safety technology, and law enforcement sectors. Broidy is also the founder and Managing Partner of Threat Deterrence Capital Holdings, LLC and LEO Technologies Holdings, LLC.

In Broidy’s view, commercial advancements are now indispensable to national security, enhancing capabilities and fostering collaboration between sectors that historically operated in separate spheres.

“In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the line between commercial innovation and national security technology is unmistakably blurred,” Broidy explains. This blurring is driven by a need for new capabilities to face emerging threats. National security agencies are increasingly looking to the commercial sector for solutions which, according to Brody, “enhances national security and drives significant advancements in both sectors.”

One of the clearest examples of this synergy lies in cloud technology. Over the past decade, cloud infrastructure has revolutionized the commercial sector, offering scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions to companies worldwide. Recognizing these advantages, national security agencies have started integrating cloud technologies to modernize their own operations.

“Cloud computing enables real-time data sharing across different national security agencies,” Broidy notes. This allows teams to access and analyze vast amounts of data from diverse sources at unprecedented speeds, ultimately enabling faster and more informed decision-making. Cloud platforms also allow for the development of sophisticated training simulations that utilize real-world data.

For example, partnerships with tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon have helped bring secure, tailored cloud solutions to the military.

Another area where commercial tech is making its mark on national security is in artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML). In the commercial sphere, AI has proven its value across industries. The national security sector has harnessed its power to revolutionize intelligence analysis and threat detection.

“Machine learning algorithms can analyze data at speeds and accuracies far beyond human capabilities. It’s a gamechanger for efficiency when we know how to harness it,” Broidy explains. ML systems can scan hours of video surveillance or sift through millions of data points to identify potential threats — a task that would otherwise demand tremendous resources and time from human analysts.

The importance of AI for national security is urgent and strategic. As a recent op-ed in Fox News emphasizes, AI is one of the our most potent tools in safeguarding our borders and national infrastructure. It is a vital force multiplier in national defense. Commercial sector innovation — like AI-powered voice analytics, behavior detection algorithms, and predictive modeling — is now actively deployed in high-stakes environments.

“This is precisely the kind of public-private convergence that will define the future of national defense,” Broidy says.

National security agencies, constantly seeking an edge over our adversaries and threats to the homeland, are adapting proven commercial technologies for mission-critical applications.

“Historically, security tech has been hindered by long procurement processes and strict regulations,” Broidy says. “But the huge need for and the success of commercial innovations in the national security sector is prodding solutions to be deployed at a faster clip.” This fosters collaboration between the national security and civilian tech sectors and a concomitant cross-pollination of ideas, which further fuels advancements in a virtuous feedback loop.

This convergence opens doors to smaller tech companies. “We are living through a time of remarkable innovation and technological breakthrough, and federal national defense agencies are increasingly receptive to new ideas. Nimbleness is key,” says Broidy.

Looking ahead, Broidy sees the blending of national security and commercial tech as a crucial driver of change in national security. “The intersection of national defense tech and commercial innovation is a win-win-win for tech companies, national security, and American society at large,” he says.