Jonathan is the Founder of Caelaris Advisory, a strategic advisory firm helping defense and space organizations shape advanced capabilities into mission-relevant outcomes.

Jonathan is a senior defense and space professional with more than two decades of experience across space operations, joint environments, and Special Operations integration. Throughout his career, he has worked at the intersection of mission execution, capability integration, and strategic planning, helping connect operational needs to emerging technologies and enterprise-level solutions.

His background includes leadership and operational experience across space domain awareness, space-enabled ISR and sensing integration, space battle management, electronic warfare, missile warning and missile defense, SATCOM, and support to complex national security missions. He brings particular strength in helping organizations align advanced capability to real operational needs, strengthen government-facing positioning, and translate technical potential into trusted customer value.

Through Caelaris Advisory, Jonathan supports defense and space companies working across mission integration, U.S. government market strategy, product and capability positioning, commercial sensing adoption, and special operations mission alignment.

Based in the Tampa, Florida area, Jonathan brings a founder-led, mission-informed perspective to organizations seeking to move from technical promise to operational relevance.

Clients engage Caelaris Advisory when they need more than messaging alone. They need credible translation between technology, mission, and customer value.

Caelaris brings a founder-led, mission-informed perspective to organizations working across defense, space, ISR, RF sensing, GEOINT, and emerging technology. The firm’s work is centered on mission relevance, operational alignment, government-facing positioning, and trusted adoption.

The name Caelaris reflects the firm’s focus on elevated perspective, strategic guidance, and the shaping of advanced capability into mission-relevant outcomes.

It draws on three root ideas:

Together, these ideas reflect what Caelaris Advisory was built to do: help defense and space organizations bring clarity, direction, and operational relevance to advanced capabilities.

If your organization is working at the intersection of defense, space, mission integration, ISR, RF sensing, or government-facing strategy, I would welcome the conversation.