Dan Wagner is a partner at C2 Strategies, a bipartisan government relations firm representing defense, energy, and technology companies before Congress and the executive branch. His clients range from startups to publicly traded firms securing funding as well as policy and advancing initiatives.

Dan retired from the U.S. Army in 2022 after 20 years of service, nearly 15 of them supporting special operations and the intelligence community. That included three years of deployments and tours as a senior Special Operations Community representative to the Intelligence Community and Congress.

He spent eight of those years working with Congress. His last post was congressional liaison to the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, where he ran legislative strategy and appropriations engagement for a $15 billion enterprise and worked daily with Members and staff on the Armed Services, Intelligence, and Appropriations Committees. Before that, he handled Army legislative affairs for intelligence, cyber, and special operations programs. He started on the Hill as a congressional fellow to Rep. Mike Rogers (MI-08), then Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Dan founded Dome2Dome Media LLC, where he writes and serves as senior editor for D2D, a weekly newsletter on what’s moving in Washington, from the Capitol to the Pentagon to OMB. He also founded 4s86 Inc., a 501(c)(19) veterans’ organization.

Dan also owns The Rox Group, a national security consulting firm. He sits on Taqtile’s advisory board, advises on critical minerals manufacturing with Refacture’s CEO and board, and is a limited partner in IronGate Capital Advisors. He serves as a strategic advisor to the OSS Society and as vice president of the Night Stalker Association’s Washington-area chapter annex

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