REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS FOR REAL WORLD PROBLEMS

KILO ALPHA STRATEGIES

Kilo Alpha Strategies is a geopolitical consultancy focused on advancing America’s national and economic security. Kilo Alpha guides clients through complex policy challenges, providing insight that identifies emerging threats and enables sustainable solutions. Kilo Alpha specializes in in-depth national security, foreign policy, and political risk analysis while promoting principled and realistic policy approaches weighted towards making America and her allies more secure and prosperous.

Whether anticipating U.S. policy shifts, developing new lines of business, opening new markets, or maximizing philanthropic impact, Kilo Alpha delivers real world solutions for real world problems.

Kilo Alpha Strategies taps into in-depth analytic capabilities, extensive networks, and frontline experience developed over decades working on the most challenging international security and policy contexts to anticipate emerging risks and identify solutions that give clients an edge in business, policy, and strategic decision-making. 

PRACTICE AREAS

GEOPOLITICAL RISK MITIGATION

Understand and respond to the world’s rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape

NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY

In today’s interconnected world, economic security is national security

STRATEGIC POSITIONING

Tap into in-depth expertise, extensive networks & frontline experience for an edge

DEFENSE, TECH & AEROSPACE DUE DILIGENCE

The intelligence needed to be at the edge

COALITIONS & PARTNERSHIPS

Navigate the complex web of relationships and geopolitical crosswinds to build networks

FOUNDING PARTNERS

Kilo Alpha Strategies’ global network connects clients with stakeholders and experts in multiple fields to help businesses and organizations better navigate geopolitical challenges, determine the best strategic approach, and meet their organizational goals.


Kilo Alpha’s expeditionary analysts can be dropped into any situation, assess it, and provide actionable intelligence to its clients.


Ambassador Kelley Currie and Amy K. Mitchell founded Kilo Alpha to continue their more than half a century of work dedicated to effective, principled U.S. national and economic security and foreign policy solutions. The Kilo Alpha team has worked across the federal government, Capitol Hill, political campaigns, and non-governmental and international organizations to promote national security policies and solutions that protect U.S. interests.

  • Throughout her three-decade career in foreign policy, Ambassador Kelley E. Currie has specialized in human rights and non-traditional national security issues, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region.

    Ambassador Currie is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, with a joint affiliation to the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Freedom and Prosperity Center. She is a founding partner of Kilo Alpha Strategies, a boutique geopolitical advisory firm, and serves on the advisory boards of Spirit of America, the Vandenberg Coalition, and the Global Taiwan Institute. After serving on the Board of Governors at the East-West Center, Ambassador Currie was appointed a Senior Adjunct Fellow in 2024. From 2021-2023, she was an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security’s Indo-Pacific Security Project.

    Ambassador Currie was unanimously confirmed in July 2017 as the United States Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Alternative Representative to the UN General Assembly under Ambassador Nikki Haley. She subsequently served as acting senior official for the Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice (2019) and Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2020-2021).

    From 2009 to 2017, Ms. Currie was a Senior Fellow with the Project 2049 Institute, where she founded and directed the Institute’s Burma Transition Initiative. She previously held senior policy positions with the Department of State, U.S. Congress, and non-governmental organizations. She has frequently testified before and briefed congressional committees and bodies, advised international organizations, and appears regularly in major media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Journal of Democracy, and Just Security.

    Ambassador Currie received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on International Human Rights Law and her bachelor’s degree from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. 

  • Amy K. Mitchell is a founding partner at Kilo Alpha Strategies. She brings extensive national security and defense experience to the firm having advised three Secretaries of Defense and several large defense contractors. Her unique understanding of U.S. national security and foreign policy interests provides companies with high-level insights and counsel. Previously, Ms. Mitchell served as the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the State Department, where she advised the Department’s senior leadership on strategic diplomatic initiatives, including the implementation of the U.S. Women, Peace, and Security agenda and women’s economic empowerment, specifically in the Indo-Pacific region. She represented the office in interagency policy processes, bilateral and multilateral diplomatic engagements, and drove implementation of key policy decisions on China, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and other priority contexts. A member of the Senior Executive Service, she was the Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis. She advised the Secretary on public diplomacy and advanced the Department’s critical mission by forging international partnerships and oversaw all high-level engagements and events. She was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal for her service, the Department’s highest civilian honor. Ms. Mitchell also has extensive Capitol Hill and public relations experience creating and executing a variety of public facing campaigns to inform veteran and military communities, as well as the public, including as the vice president of communications at National Review; vice president of public affairs at the United Service Organizations (USO); and as the director of communications at the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Under President George W. Bush, she served at the Department of Defense as the Director of Special Projects, overseeing the Department’s Wounded Warrior outreach efforts and supported the unveiling of the September 11 Pentagon Memorial. Ms. Mitchell’s international relations career began as the deputy director of public relations at the G8 Summit in 2004 in Sea Island, Georgia. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Ms. Mitchell is currently a Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute, a NonResident Senior Fellow at New Lines Institute; serves on the advisory board of the Vandenberg Coalition; a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Foreign Policy Study Group; a strategic consultant to military and veterans service organizations; and is on the board of Eagle Online Academy. She has appeared on Voice of America and Scripps News, and she has written numerous articles for The National Interest, Foreign Policy and The Hill among other publications.

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