SECURITY STRATEGY • COUNTER-UAS • DECISION ADVANTAGE

THE PERIMETER
HAS CHANGED.
CREATE DECISION ADVANTAGE.

Phoenix 6 Consulting helps organizations assess drone risk, build complete C-UAS capability, and prepare leaders to act decisively across ground, cyber, and aerial domains.

Core Capabilities

From emerging threat to executable response.

Phoenix 6 works at the point where strategy, technology, authorities, people, and time converge. Every engagement is designed to improve understanding, preserve options, and increase the client’s ability to act.

Primary Service

C-UAS Consulting

Threat assessment, site architecture, layered detection strategy, C2/COP design, vendor evaluation, policy, operational planning, and implementation roadmaps.

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Flagship Offering

Tabletop Exercise Creation & Facilitation

Executive and practitioner exercises with realistic injects, decision points, facilitator materials, hotwash, and after-action recommendations.

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3D Physical Security™

A framework integrating Ground, Cyber, and Aerial operating environments through governance, a common operating picture, and Decision Advantage.

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Assessments & Security Advisory

Threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment; drone vulnerability and risk assessment; critical-infrastructure advisory; secure-site planning; and operational resilience.

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Speaking & Thought Leadership

Executive briefings, keynotes, conference sessions, panels, and senior-leader education on C-UAS, emerging threats, decision-making, and leadership under pressure.

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3D Physical Security™

Security is no longer two-dimensional.

Modern organizations operate across interconnected Ground, Cyber, and Aerial environments. Phoenix 6 connects those domains through governance, a common operating picture, and a decision process designed to preserve lawful and feasible options when time matters.

GROUNDPeople, facilities, access, systems, terrain, operations.
CYBERNetworks, data, identity, communications, control systems.
AERIALDrones, low-altitude airspace, sensors, aerial risk, response options.
DECISION ADVANTAGEUnderstand faster, reach authority, preserve options, execute in time.
Ground, Cyber, Aerial and Decision Advantage framework
Decision Advantage

90 seconds to decide.

Technology matters only if the organization can turn information into action. Phoenix 6 evaluates and trains decision performance through four practical tests.

Understanding

Do decision-makers have a common, trusted picture of what is happening?

Authority

Can the correct person or organization lawfully make the required decision?

Options

Are realistic, lawful, and executable response options available?

Execution

Can the organization act in time, communicate clearly, and confirm the result?

Tabletop Exercises

Rehearse the decision before the incident.

Phoenix 6 creates and facilitates executive and practitioner tabletop exercises for drone events, critical-infrastructure disruption, cyber-aerial convergence, special events, and multi-agency response.

Scenario & MSEL

Realistic scenario design, escalating injects, branch points, decision requirements, and expected discussion.

Facilitation

Executive and practitioner discussion focused on decisions, authorities, information, coordination, and execution.

After-Action Roadmap

Strengths, gaps, corrective actions, owners, priorities, and recommended follow-on training or policy work.

National Media & Podcasts

Trusted for context when the drone story moves fast.

Bill Edwards has appeared across NewsNation, ABC, NBC, and CBS and in long-form podcast conversations with aviation, military, security, and critical-infrastructure audiences.

NewsNationWorld Cup & critical infrastructure
ABCWorld Cup drone security
NBCDrone-security coverage
CBS NewsSuper Bowl LX
Books & Published Thought Leadership

Ideas built from operational experience.

The books extend the Phoenix 6 operating philosophy from 3D Physical Security™ and Decision Advantage to the rapidly changing aerial-security environment and the earlier leadership lessons of Abu Ghraib.

The Perimeter Has Changed actual book cover
Available Now

The Perimeter Has Changed

Building and leading the 3D Physical Security™ enterprise through Ground, Cyber, Aerial, and Decision Advantage.

The Sky Has No Fence actual book cover
Releases 29 October 2026

The Sky Has No Fence

Drones, counter-drones, and the fight for Decision Advantage in the low-altitude operating environment.

Inside Abu Ghraib book cover
Prior Work

Inside Abu Ghraib

Memoirs of two U.S. military intelligence officers and the leadership lessons of service under extraordinarily difficult conditions.

Professional headshot of COL (R) Bill Edwards
Author • Executive Speaker • Security Strategist

Operational experience translated for leaders.

COL (R) Bill Edwards brings more than 35 years of military, intelligence, security, consulting, training, and executive leadership experience to audiences confronting emerging threats and time-compressed decisions.

His speaking and writing connect Counter-UAS, 3D Physical Security™, Decision Advantage, critical infrastructure, operational readiness, and leadership under pressure—without turning the conversation into a product pitch.

AuthorForbes Technology CouncilHomeland Security TodaySmall Wars JournalExecutive Keynotes

The threat has changed. Has your security model?

Start with the requirement. Phoenix 6 can help assess the problem, design the capability, train the team, rehearse the decisions, and build a path from information to action.