# Partners In thinking about the long-term utility of this project, along with our values as a community, we very early decided that this needed to involve multiple organizations. Our concept with partnerships is simple: the relationship should be mutually-beneficial, time-bound (e.g. no need for lock-in, let's have a good trial period and offer flexibility), and fun. DEF is run by volunteers, so we don't have time to deal with any more painful bureaucracy in our lives. ### Existing Partners We do not yet have any formal partnerships for this project, but DEF already works with the these **existing partners**, who we hope to recruit as supporters for this project as well: * [**Agitare**](https://www.agitare.org) - a facilitation and design-focused community of deep thinkers who offer much in the way of questioning, especially when it comes to [Use Cases](/about/use-cases.md) and [Ethics](/about/support/ethics.md). * [**JSOFT**](https://www.jsoftalliance.org) - a community of people passionate about software in defense and national security whose expertise as a bridge for data and related aspects of this project can help grow its reach and connectivity (and with whom we already collaborate). * [**Google**](https://docs.natsec.io/about/support/www.google.com) - you know them, we already work with them on DEFx Software events and use Google Workspace to support this project and DEF overall, but Google Cloud has the potential to take the [Google Sheets](/learning/tools/google-sheets.md) + [Kumu](/learning/tools/kumu.md) version of this project and extend it to a much more robust platform, with associated educational resources. ### Potential Partners In addition to those above, we think the following organizations are really cool and good **potential partners**, if it works out: * [**Golden**](https://golden.com) - a commercial company building the world's largest knowledge engine / graph, their software is interesting because it helps apply the kinds of data-centric ideas of this project to day-to-day challenges people in national security face (plus there is no way we could generate that level of detail for our work, so perhaps an opportunity to collaborate exists). * **Data-focused software companies** - way too many to list here, but we think this space has a lot of opportunity to help people explore and learn about these concepts while also driving greater connectivity across the ecosystem. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.natsec.io/about/support/partners.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.