About us
The Black Bird Group is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our funding comes mainly from private donations and the company Black Bird Group Ltd, which is owned 100 % by the Think Tank association.
Black Bird Group is an umbrella brand shared by two separate legal persons. We all share a common mission to “Understand the unthinkable”, but the finances and day-to-day operations are separate.
Non-profit association. Research, public analysis, the war map, media work, lectures and institutional cooperation. This site.
Limited company. Training, exercise and wargaming support, and commissioned analysis for defence customers.
No funder, partner or customer sees analysis before it is published, or has any say over its content.
Where a member of staff has an interest that could reasonably be read as a conflict, it is declared.
Public research is never presented as a commercial deliverable, and commercial work is never presented as independent research.
Our Sustainability and Ethics Policy sets out how we expect the organisation and everyone working in it to behave. We understand that studying defence and national security should strengthen democracy, not undermine it. This influences the choice of subjects we take on, the sources we rely on, the partners we work with, and the way we treat one another.
The policy covers our ethical conduct and the obligation to correct the record, which work we will and will not accept and who decides, equal treatment and the safety of staff and volunteers, and the environmental impact of how we operate.