お知らせ • Feb 23
T3 Defense Announces Executive Appointments
T3 Defense Inc. announced two senior leadership appointments aimed at strengthening execution, scalability, and long-term production reliability. The company appointed Emil Blumer as Chief Business Officer and Jordan Buchler as Chief Executive Officer of its Manufacturing & Industrial Processing Division, aligning commercial growth and operational execution around the industrial capabilities that most directly influence production continuity. As Chief Business Officer, Mr. Blumer is responsible for growth strategy, dealflow, and market positioning across the portfolio. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the defense industry, most notably from his tenure at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, where he held senior roles spanning program leadership, business development, and commercial management across international defense markets. During his time at Rafael, Mr. Blumer worked closely with government customers and defense integrators, gaining firsthand experience into how industrial capacity and supplier readiness intersect over long production cycles. He later held senior leadership roles at Avnon and Magal, further expanding his experience across defense and global markets. At T3 Defense, Blumer’s mandate will be to align commercial strategy with industrial reality, strengthening demand visibility, supporting capital allocation, and ensuring that constrained manufacturing capacity can scale in step with program needs. Meanwhile, Mr. Buchler will lead T3 Defense’s Manufacturing & Industrial Processing Division, a mandate that includes expanding manufacturing throughput, standardizing industrial and quality processes, reducing qualification friction, and converting durable backlogs into repeatable production output. He will do this by managing a number of subsidiaries including Industrial Techno-Logic Solutions (ITS) and Positech. These companies provide custom industrial machinery, metal processing, machining, fabrication, ruggedized components, and precision motion and stabilization systems embedded across A&D programs. Mr. Buchler brings decades of experience building and scaling complex operational systems in highly constrained environments. He spent over 20 years in the public sector before moving into senior operational roles in industry, including building the Ethiopian Maritime Training Institute, and senior leadership positions at Weissbeerger, Paramount Enterprise International, ZOOZ Power, and Oran Safety Glass. Across these roles, Buchler developed a reputation for identifying the critical path, building durable processes, and expanding capacity in environments defined by long cycles, limited margin for error, and capital-intensive infrastructure - conditions that closely mirror the realities of defense manufacturing today. These leadership moves are another signal of T3 Defense’s focus on growing the most constrained layers of the defense supply chain. Operating as a federated holding company, T3 Defense pairs commercial leadership with hands-on operational leadership and enables its subsidiaries to coordinate across the ecosystem, enabling capacity, expertise, and execution to reinforce one another at the points where production speed is actually set.