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Top 25 Defense companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 141 defense companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 28,902 professional contacts across them, including 5,195 with verified work emails. Arlington is the largest hub.
This list covers defense companies headquartered in the United States, 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 15, 2026.
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 companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 8,739 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From Gulfstream business jets and combat vehicles to nuclear-powered submarines and communications systems, people around the world depend on our products and services for their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,967 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,559 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Kratos, we deliver affordable, disruptive technologies that enable real-world readiness for national security.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,449 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Goodrich Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a global supplier of systems and services to the aerospace, defense and homeland security markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,006 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,708 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems provides the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,054 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orbital Sciences is now Orbital ATK!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 667 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BlueHalo is now part of AV, a global defense technology leader built for scale, driven by innovation, and delivering #AllDomainDominance across every domain of modern…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to give the warfighters we depend on, the critical equipment they depend on.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 357 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today, with nearly 450 employees and numerous locations across the country, the SURVICE Engineering Company continues to provide these unparalleled services, particularly in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Valor Tactical Innovation is an ITAR-registered U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thomas Instrument is an engineering and manufacturing firm of flight critical precision machined components and complex fabrications for the US DOD and Commercial Aerospace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Precision Power Products is an electrical/electronic manufacturing company based out of 50 Waverly Way Ne, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “M2 is a proven 8(a) prime defense contractor with nearly a decade of successful field service maintenance experience as a prime contractor in the commercial and non-commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AMS Group delivers complete and efficient support across thousands of parts needed to maintain mission readiness for today’s critical platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Defense products for military and government security forces around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Triman Industries, Inc, a division of Blue Raven Solutions, is a full-service, value-added distributor and worldwide provider of Military, Aerospace and Defense Industry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mack Defense, LLC “Mack Defense” provides high quality equipment, parts, and services to military, federal, and security customers around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Designers and builders of quality components & machinery systems for the u.s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mistral Group is a team of independent companies, each operating in different markets worldwide, while collectively sharing the mission of “Bridging” operational gaps in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C3EL is a mission-focused systems integrator delivering engineering, information technology, cybersecurity, communications, and operational support services to the Department of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a premier multinational supplier of products and services to the global commercial, military, and strategic aerospace markets for over 50 years, we have earned the reputation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Starwin Industries is an aviation & aerospace company based out of 3387 Woodman Dr, Dayton, Ohio, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GAI is a design and manufacturing company incorporated under the laws of the State of Texas in 1966.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 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 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 companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of defense companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name defense 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 companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 141 companies.
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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “defense 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 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 companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 5,195 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 on September 15, 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.
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 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 companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 141 defense companies headquartered in the United States 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?
General Dynamics, headquartered in Reston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most defense companies?
Arlington leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Washington (5) and Tampa (4).
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 5,195 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 141 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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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.
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