The Tacitus Group is a Sterling, Virginia-based fractional executive services firm built on more than two decades of senior leadership experience at the highest levels of the U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. We deliver fractional Chief Administrative Officer and Vice President of Operations services to growth-stage IC and DoD contractors in the $10M to $500M range, providing C-suite operational leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive hire.
We place senior operators directly into your leadership team on a fractional basis. Not advisors who hand you a deck and leave. Operators who sit in the chair, attend the meetings, make the decisions, and own the outcomes. We build the systems your company needs to scale, and when the engagement is done, you run independently at a higher level than when we arrived.
We understand how the government customer actually operates, not just how to serve it from the outside. That perspective changes everything.
The GovCon fractional advisory market is well served on the financial compliance side. What none of those firms can provide is senior operational executive leadership from a team that spent decades as senior staff officers and executives inside the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Our cleared associate bench, drawn from former agency Chiefs of Staff, Staff Directors, and senior front office leaders, extends that depth into our Executive Advisory premium service line within Enterprise Services.
Beyond government contracting, the core operational competencies that define our value, organizational design, talent strategy, program governance, change management, and scaling founder-led companies, are equally relevant to non-GovCon growth-stage businesses navigating the same structural challenge: they have outgrown founder-led operations but cannot justify a full-time Chief Administrative Officer.
Headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, we serve companies across the national capital region and beyond.
