In the Room. Building Relationships.
Dalton personally attends conferences and industry gatherings, listening, learning, and building relationships across government, defense, simulation, space, and technology.
Connecting People.Solving Problems.Advancing Missions.
Desra Group serves the U.S. government customer market, connecting federal, state, and local mission needs with worldwide solutions through independent providers. Orlando-based, with strong Florida roots in defense, simulation, and space, we listen, advise, and connect people when needs and capabilities genuinely align.
Solution Partnerships
A Relationship Built on Context.
Our technology focus helps us understand how established companies work, the technical problems they solve, and where their capabilities may be useful. Built for capable companies serving government, defense, cybersecurity, technology, engineering, professional services, and related industries, wherever you're headquartered. Dalton adds technical context and trusted connections to the relationship-building and networking your team already does.
Florida Market Insight
Understand government and technology needs across Florida, including its defense, simulation, and space communities, and where your offering may fit.
Closing Operational Gaps
Help your customers close gaps between management, operations, and technical teams through communication, accountability, and technology.
A Trusted Advisor in Your Corner
A relationship built on understanding your capabilities and your people. When a real need and your capability line up, the right people can decide whether a conversation makes sense.
The relationship comes first. A connection should be useful, appropriate, and grounded in mutual respect.
Strategic Partnership
How Desra Group partners with owner-led organizations
A short message on leadership, technology, talent, and the operating strength required for the next stage of growth.
Personal presence. Year-round relationships.
Dalton Goes to Events. The Relationships Continue.
Conferences, association gatherings, and industry conversations are a major part of Dalton Young's work. He attends under Desra's own brand, building relationships across the U.S. government customer market, with particular depth in Florida's defense, simulation, and space communities.
Mission Partner Sponsorship supports that ongoing presence and a deeper understanding of your business. A force multiplier for your existing memberships, networking, and sales efforts, so your team can be selective about which events to attend.
Every Trip Adds Up. Make Yours Count.
Travel costs
Airfare, hotels, rental cars, meals, and ground transportation add up with every trip. More selective travel can reduce that spend.
Event costs
Registration, attendance fees, and exhibiting expenses can stretch your budget. Focus your spending on the events that matter most to your team.
Time away
Travel days, preparation, and time away from customers, work, and family carry a cost too. Dalton's ongoing presence adds continuity between your own trips.
Potential savings depend on your travel and event choices. Dalton represents Desra, not sponsor companies; sponsorship does not guarantee introductions or business outcomes.
Explore Mission Partner Sponsorship
Two Ways to Connect
Start where you are.
How Our Model Works
We work on both sides of the relationship.
Desra keeps confidential, long-term relationships with a portfolio of organizations that together generate more than $20 billion in annual revenue. Those relationships grow over years, built on trust and context.
Our Portfolio Clients
We serve the U.S. government customer market through confidential relationships with federal, state, and local government organizations, supporting businesses, and leadership teams, helping them find and close gaps in operations, management, leadership, technology, and capability through perspective, communication, and accountability. We learn their challenges, priorities, and changing requirements.
Our Solution Partners
We connect mission needs with worldwide solutions through qualified independent technology, cybersecurity, engineering, simulation, space, workforce, and professional-services companies. We learn their capabilities and operating environments, so technical understanding helps us recognize a genuine fit.
Ongoing Relationship Development
We build our own relationships through government and technology conferences, associations, and industry conversations, with a strong Florida presence in defense, simulation, and space. Our focus is the U.S. government customer market, helping worldwide solutions find alignment with real mission needs.
A connection begins only when a real requirement, a suitable capability, and both parties' interest line up. Confidential client information is shared only when appropriately authorized.
Who We Are
We're in the Relationship Business.
Our group connects two sides of the mission: the U.S. government customer market across federal, state, and local government, and independent providers of worldwide technology solutions, including the defense industrial base. Our portfolio is built on relationships, understanding what each organization needs and what each company does well.
Not every challenge needs an outside partner. Sometimes the next step is clearer communication, stronger accountability, or making better use of the technology and people already in place. We advise and support operationally, connecting trusted capabilities when that is the right next step.
Technical understanding gives those relationships context. We look at how technology, cybersecurity, engineering, and people work together, so a useful conversation starts with the actual mission need.
We build relationships that last.
Trust, context, and mutual value.
About Our Founder
Technical experience. People first.
Dalton Young's experience spans defense and federal cybersecurity, security leadership, risk management, technology, business operations, and strategic partnerships. He has built and sold businesses of his own and is actively involved in professional communities across government, defense, simulation, space, and technology.
Desra grew from his passion for technology, defense, relationships, and practical problem-solving. Dalton stays personally involved: listening to people, understanding what matters to them, and helping turn a conversation into a useful next step. He is a force multiplier for your existing relationship and networking efforts, adding perspective and continuity alongside your team.
- DoD and federal cybersecurity and GRC leadership
- Entrepreneur who has built and sold businesses
- Active in AFCEA, NCMS, NDIA, NCS, and technology communities
Dalton Young
Founder & CEO