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Top 25 Defense policy consulting firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 308 defense policy consulting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,870 professional contacts across them, including 876 with verified work emails. Washington is the largest hub.
This list covers defense policy consulting firms 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 28, 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 policy consulting firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Technomics is a growing, employee-owned consulting firm that specializes in the exciting and challenging field of weapon system cost analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Threat Tec, we are passionate about enabling and supporting the interests of the United States and its allies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategic Analysis Inc.(SA) is an industry-leading government professional services firm that excels in providing innovative solutions to the problems of today and tomorrow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to be at the forefront of devising analytical, operational and technical solutions to the most complex national security challenges by delivering superior advice…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Renaissance Strategic Advisors is the leading Aerospace, Defense, and Government sector focused strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Beacon Global Strategies is a Washington, D.C-based strategic advisory firm advising leading companies on national security issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MAT Inc, established in 2001, is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)/ Vietnam Veteran Owned Small Business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A premier, expert-driven defense services company, Horizon Strategies offers value-focused administrative and professional services, strategy and planning, and exercise support to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experience, Expertise and Integrity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TRG is a government relations consulting firm located on the doorstep of the United States Capitol.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cypress is the gold standard for consultants.” “Leveraging the Cypress expertise is ideal to help us focus on strategic level decisions” A consultancy specializing in helping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pallas Advisors is a strategic advisory firm specializing in national security, defense, and innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Defense Consulting Services LLC (DCS) is a service-disabled veteran-owned firm (SBA-certified 8(a), SDVOSB, SB, SDB, VOSB) headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Burdeshaw Associates, LLC has nearly 40 years of unparalleled leadership and "real world" experience from retired flag officers and SES level executives in the areas of Domestic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CSBA is an independent policy research institute established to develop innovative, resource-informed defense concepts; set the terms of debate for the future of national defense…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Security & Innovative Strategies (GSIS) leverages its extensive private sector, homeland, public security, public sector and international expertise to provide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cambridge Global Advisors (CGA) is a strategic advisory services firm with experience at the global, national, state and local level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2011, Nextfed is a strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm headquartered in the National Capitol Region, specializing in U.S National Security and Aerospace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by technologists in 2013, JTEC's core team has served in and supported the missions of the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “American Global Strategies LLC is a strategic advisory firm that looks beyond today’s headlines for its clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At PAL we are committed to support those who defend our nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Avascent is the leading management consulting firm specializing in serving senior executives in the defense, aerospace, healthcare, homeland security, logistics, technical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EEC Solutions is a small veteran-owned business providing innovative solutions for defense/security consulting, training, strategic planning/engagement, and professional services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Themis Insight provides human focused insight to National Security clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 policy consulting firms. 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 policy consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of defense policy consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name defense policy consulting firms. 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 policy consulting firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 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 308 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 policy consulting firms, 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 policy consulting firms”. 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 policy consulting firms), 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 policy consulting firms, 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, 876 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 28, 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.
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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 policy consulting firms, 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 policy consulting firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 308 defense policy consulting firms 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?
Technomics, INC, headquartered in Arlington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most defense policy consulting firms?
Washington leads with 65 headquartered companies, followed by Arlington (23) and Alexandria (16).
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 876 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 308 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 28, 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.
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