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Top 25 Defense software development companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,587 defense software development companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 369,666 professional contacts across them, including 39,486 with verified work emails and 162,354 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Huntsville the largest hub.
This list covers defense software development companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 1, 2026. Country and city lists for defense software development companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest defense software development companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75,000 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 42,746 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Raytheon, an RTX business, creates next-generation defense solutions that are smarter, faster and better than previously thought possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 34,223 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whether at the border, up in space, or on the battlefield, we build the advanced technology that makes America stronger, faster, and safer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 24,757 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 24,019 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GDIT is a global technology and professional services company that delivers solutions, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 19,490 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1944, Parsons Corporation, a digitally enabled solutions provider, is focused on creating the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 12,874 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 10,741 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Peraton, we're at the forefront of delivering the next big thing every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 9,756 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MANTECH is more than a technology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5,947 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leonardo DRS Inc.(Nasdaq: DRS) is at the forefront of developing transformative defense technologies using its proven agility and delivering innovative solutions for U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4,631 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.(IAI) is Israel’s largest aerospace and defense company specializing in developing and manufacturing advanced, state-of-the-art systems for air…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 4,524 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ASRC Federal’s employees provide solutions for more than 30 U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,686 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elbit Systems is a leading global defense technology company, delivering advanced solutions for a secure and safer world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,023 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Textron Systems has been providing innovative solutions to the defense, homeland security and aerospace communities for more than 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,914 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced engineering company that was founded in 1988 to provide innovative solutions to the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,909 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.(MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and technology solutions company delivering first-choice capabilities to solve problems of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,768 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,533 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leidos Dynetics provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, IT solutions to the national security, cybersecurity, space, and critical infrastructure sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,520 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thales Defense & Security, Inc.(TDSI) Headquartered in Clarksburg, MD, Thales Defense & Security, Inc.(TDSI) is a U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,388 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For over 60 years, QinetiQ US has been providing world-class technology development, engineering research and development and revolutionary products to the defense, security, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,288 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CAE USA, located in Tampa Florida, provides modeling and simulation technologies, integrated training solutions and training system support services for various defense and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,183 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Systematic is Denmark's largest privately owned software company and has been developing IT solutions since 1985.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VTG delivers force modernization and digital transformation solutions that expand America’s competitive advantage in the modern battlespace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,080 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Agile Defense: Always Evolving Agile Defense stands at the forefront of innovation, driving advanced capabilities and solutions tailored to the most critical national security and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: defense software development companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names defense software development companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of defense software development companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name defense software development companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Defense software development companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 1, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among defense software development companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 9 countries, largest first: the United States, India, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, Australia, Israel, Italy, Canada, Germany. Country and city lists for defense software development companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “defense software development companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names defense software development companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among defense software development companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 39,486 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Defense software development companies by location
17 lists · largest firstEvery Defense software development companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Defense software development companies based in the United States1,102
- Defense software development companies based in India153
- Defense software development companies based in Türkiye112
- Defense software development companies based in the United Kingdom63
- Defense software development companies based in Australia43
- Defense software development companies based in Israel38
- Defense software development companies based in Italy26
- Defense software development companies based in Canada25
- Defense software development companies based in Germany25
Cities
- Defense software development companies based in Huntsville, United States58
- Defense software development companies based in Herndon, United States34
- Defense software development companies based in Reston, United States33
- Defense software development companies based in Columbia, United States31
- Defense software development companies based in Mclean, United States31
- Defense software development companies based in Arlington, United States30
- Defense software development companies based in Washington, United States29
- Defense software development companies based in Chantilly, United States27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names defense software development companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many defense software development companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,587 defense software development companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Northrop Grumman, headquartered in San Diego, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most defense software development companies?
The United States leads with 1,102 companies, followed by India (153) and Türkiye (112). Every defense software development companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most defense software development companies?
Huntsville leads with 62 headquartered companies, followed by Ankara (47) and Herndon (34).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 39,486 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,587 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.