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I was a defense contractor. For years I felt like I was perpetually behind — learning about contract awards after positions were already filled, hearing about prime opportunities through word of mouth months too late, never quite knowing which companies were actively winning work in my specialty or where that work was actually happening.
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 organized in a way that's 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 — and the map is public, so you can explore before you commit. Prime contractor profiles with actual history; companies now manage their own pages and post jobs directly, so the data stays current. A jobs board filtered for defense, with clearance levels and salary ranges. Contract alert digests that email you when new awards land in your specialty — set your NAICS codes once and let it run. A forum where cleared professionals can actually talk — about locations, salaries, primes, clearance timelines — without it being LinkedIn formal or Reddit public. And an AI research assistant that answers questions about companies, agencies, and contracts in seconds — so you spend less time digging and more time acting.
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.
All contract and company data is sourced from public government databases. We normalize and index what is already publicly available.