You do the work.
You deserve to know
where the work is.
I was a defense contractor. I held a clearance, moved between contracts, and spent more time than I should have flying blind — not knowing which primes were active in my specialty, which bases had work, or who to talk to at the companies I wanted to work for.
The job boards were useless. ClearanceJobs charged $50 a month for what was essentially a glorified HTML list. USAJOBS was government UX from 2008. LinkedIn flooded you with civilian noise. None of them could tell you who was actually winning DoD contracts in Kuwait, or which prime had just picked up a five-year OASIS task order in your lane.
The frustrating part is that all of this information is public. USASpending.gov has every contract award. SAM.gov has every registered contractor. The data exists — it just isn't usable by the people who need it most.
"A cleared professional shouldn't need personal connections to know where the DoD is spending money in their specialty. That intelligence should be a tool, not a privilege."
DefenseNetwork is the platform that should have existed when I was in the field. Real contract data, mapped geographically. Prime contractor profiles with actual history, not just a logo and a careers page link. A jobs board filtered for defense, with clearance levels and salary ranges. A forum where cleared professionals can actually talk — about locations, salaries, primes, clearance timelines — without it being LinkedIn formal or Reddit public.
We built it for the individual operator. The TS/SCI holder figuring out their next move. The contractor coming off a deployment wondering what's active in Germany. The cleared engineer who wants to know which primes are winning OASIS work before they send a cold email.
Interactive globe showing active DoD contracts by country. Click any country to see total spend, active primes, and recent awards.
234K+ DoD contract awards from USASpending.gov. Filter by country, agency, NAICS, value, and set-aside type.
Live federal defense listings from USAJOBS, filtered for clearance and location. Salary ranges, close dates, direct apply links.
40K+ contractors with full profiles — NAICS codes, certifications, contract history, and active DoD work.
Threaded discussions by topic: clearances, OCONUS locations, contract vehicles, agencies, career. Anonymous posting supported.
Message other members directly. Request-based system — no unsolicited DMs.
Every DoD contract award — awarding agency, obligated amount, period of performance, set-aside type, and place of performance.
Every registered federal contractor — name, address, CAGE code, certifications, and NAICS codes.
Live federal job postings via the USAJOBS API. Updated hourly.
All contract and company data is sourced from public government databases. We normalize and index what is already publicly available.