DefenseNetwork turns public government data into a tool cleared professionals can actually use.

I was a defense contractor myself. I built this because I saw how much information asymmetry there is in this industry. Some people were always in the know. They knew which companies were getting new contracts, where the jobs were going, and who to talk to in those organizations to get ahead. On the other hand, there were people who had no idea what was going on around them. I found myself somewhere in the middle. I knew enough to navigate the industry, but I still felt helplessly blind.

I decided to build this because it gave me a way to visually track the defense industry. Contracts are public information. Everyone has access to it, but reading one contract at a time isn't easy or user-friendly. What's needed is a platform that aggregates all of this data and makes it easy for contractors to actually use it. And that's what I've built. It tracks each company and builds out an award profile: which contracts they won, which subs they use, the size of the award, and where they're working. I believe this is one of the most extensive, active databases of the defense industry players that service the DoD.