About Defense.Direct

Defense.Direct is an independent directory of the global defense industrial base. It maps 537 suppliers, integrators, and contractors across 47 countries — from the primes everyone knows down to the subcontractors that rarely surface in public reporting — and pairs each profile with the federal contract history behind it.

Why it exists

Finding out who actually builds a given defense capability is harder than it should be. Award data lives in federal databases designed for compliance reporting, not discovery. Company capabilities live in PDFs and trade-show booths. Defense.Direct pulls those threads into one place: a supplier profile that states what a company does, where it operates, what it is certified and cleared to do, and what it has actually been paid to deliver.

Where the data comes from

• Contract awards — 1,573 awards worth roughly $514B, sourced from USAspending.gov, the US government's official federal spending record. Figures are obligation amounts as reported; outlays are shown separately where available.
• Company registrations — entity records from SAM.gov and equivalent national registries (UK Companies House, ASIC, EU VAT) where applicable.
• Company-supplied detail — capabilities, certifications, and offerings provided by the company itself, marked Self-reported wherever shown.
• Published sources — press releases, newsrooms, and defense trade coverage, linked from the profile where used.

What "verified" means here

A profile marked Verifiedhas been claimed by someone at the company using a work email on that company's domain, and the claim has been reviewed and approved by us. Verification means the listing is maintained by the company — it is not an endorsement, an audit of their capabilities, or an independent confirmation of the claims on the page. Unverified profiles are compiled from the public sources above.

Contract award figures are never self-reported. They come from USAspending.gov and are shown with their source links intact.

Editorial

Articles and analysis are written and edited in-house. The glossary (151terms) exists because defense procurement runs on acronyms that lock out anyone who hasn't worked inside it. We do not accept payment for editorial coverage, and directory placement is not for sale — companies can claim and correct their own listing at no cost.

Corrections and contact

If a profile is wrong, out of date, or shouldn't be listed, tell us and we will fix it. Companies can also claim their listing directly from their profile page to manage it themselves.