Lost Frontier Holdings
Rediscovering rugged survivability expertise in regional incident response, wildland and private property management, and remote recovery activities.
Lost Frontier Holdings is a multi-domain enterprise headquartered in Sevier County, Tennessee. We operate across professional training, heavy vehicle operations, intelligence systems, investigative services, search and rescue, and precision fabrication.
Founded by former U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dave Holder, a career national security operations and investigations specialist, Lost Frontier brings 20 years of military, corporate security, and risk management back to East Tennessee and neighboring states.
We serve law enforcement agencies, corporate security teams, federal buyers, and community organizations that value competence over spectacle and credibility earned through performance.
Operational Lanes
Training & Academy
Current offerings include investigative interviewing and credibility assessment, insider risk detection and response engineering and program design, and Search & Rescue training and credentialing.
Learn More →Remote Land & Recovery Operations
LFH operates a small but comprehensive fleet spanning heavy 5-ton 6x6 trucks and offroad trailers, upfitted expedition-grade SUVs and UTV side-by-sides, and livestock, supported by heavy-lift drones.
Learn More →Intelligence Systems
Secure case management, investigative planning tools, secure communications, and digital field collection archival. Powered by our proprietary Knowledge Dominance Project, a RAG-based architecture anchoring AI tools in authoritative literature.
Learn More →Investigations & Executive Protection
In 2027 we launch our investigative agency and academy and extend our Knowledge Dominance Project platform to executive protection teams.
Learn More →Search & Rescue
Mounted and unmounted SAR in remote and urban terrain, with heavy-lift drone support, networked case management and Blue-Team GPS tracking, led by local experts in the East TN SAR community.
Learn More →Fabrication & Machining
FFL weapons manufacturing, repairs, and modifications through our affiliate, Appalachian Armorers; custom offroad survivability fabrication; and precision metalwork with CNC, plasma, MIG/TIG, cold saws, bluing, and other machining.
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