The Best AI Tools for Aerospace & Defense Recruitment Agencies (2026)

TL;DR

The US aerospace and defense workforce runs at roughly 2.23 million people, generates $995 billion in business activity, and is losing people to a 15% annual attrition rate, more than double the cross-industry average, while 29% of the workforce is old enough to retire [1]. Over 70,000 cleared defense positions sit unfilled [1], and even a Secret-level clearance now takes 4-8 months to process, with Top Secret running 8-18 months [1]. Agencies building or expanding an A&D desk in 2026 are reaching for a specific stack: SeekOut for AI-driven cleared and deep-technical sourcing [2], hireEZ for its dedicated defense-and-aerospace sourcing solution [3], ClearanceJobs and ClearedJobs.Net for cleared-talent job boards [4][5], the newer ClearMatch for agent-driven cleared-candidate matching [6], Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary for veteran-heavy technical talent [7], and GovWin IQ for spotting a contract award before it becomes a hiring mandate [8]. None of these tools tell an agency which client is about to open a role before the RFP or the req lands - that is the gap a signal-led BD layer like boilr is built to close, and we say honestly, below, where it does and does not fit next to the rest of this stack.

Why Aerospace & Defense Recruiting Is a Different Game in 2026

Aerospace and defense recruiting has always demanded more process than most technical desks. In 2026, several pressures are converging on it at once, and each changes what an agency needs its tooling to do.

• The workforce is shrinking faster than it can be replaced. The sector's 15% annual attrition rate is more than double the cross-industry average, and 29% of the workforce is old enough to retire, with PwC projecting a multi-million worker gap from retirements in the coming years [1].
• Engineering demand is outpacing supply. An AIA/McKinsey study found 76% of aerospace and defense companies are struggling to hire engineering talent and 56% face shortages in skilled trades, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 3,800 new aerospace engineers will be needed every year through 2031 just to keep pace with growth and retirement [9].
• Clearance backlogs still gate the pipeline, even as they improve. Average investigation processing time sits at 243 days, and the DCSA case backlog, while down 65% from early 2025, still runs around 100,000 cases [1]. Sponsoring a candidate through a new clearance costs an employer $15,000-$30,000-plus once investigation fees and productivity delays are counted [10].
• ITAR adds a citizenship filter no other technical desk has to apply. Under 22 CFR 120.15, only US persons - citizens, lawful permanent residents, and certain refugees or asylees - may access export-controlled technical data without a licence, and releasing that data to a foreign person even briefly counts as a "deemed export" [11]. A generalist tech-sourcing tool has no concept of this filter; an aerospace/defense desk has to apply it before a candidate ever reaches a client.
• AS9100 and ITAR are now a gate, not a differentiator. OEMs increasingly filter out suppliers, and by extension their staffing partners, that cannot demonstrate both certifications before any conversation about a role even starts [12].

Put together: a shrinking, retiring workforce means every mandate is more urgent, a real engineering shortfall means those mandates are hard to fill, and a compliance layer unique to this sector, clearance timelines plus the ITAR US-person filter, means generic tech-recruiting tools are not built for the search problem an A&D desk actually has.

What "AI Tools for Aerospace & Defense Recruiting" Actually Covers

The category spans four distinct jobs. Most vendors are strong in one or two of them, not all four, which is the single most common source of buyer disappointment.

The four layers of an aerospace/defense recruiting stack

• AI-powered sourcing and cleared-talent search - finding engineers and technicians, including those holding an active clearance, faster than manual Boolean search allows.
• Cleared-talent job boards and matching platforms - niche channels built around clearance level, agency and programme, rather than generic tech job categories.
• Veteran and transitioning-military talent pipelines - a disproportionate share of cleared, technically trained A&D talent moves through military-to-civilian channels rather than open job boards.
• Signal-led business development - identifying which prime, subcontractor or agency is about to open a hiring mandate, ideally before a contract award or a req reaches a job board, and getting the desk in front of the right buyer first.

Confusing the four is expensive. A sourcing tool will not tell you a client just won a $200M contract; a cleared-talent job board will not verify that a candidate is actually a US person eligible for ITAR-controlled work; and a BD-signal tool will not source or clear a single candidate.

The Shortlist at a Glance

Seven tools recruitment agencies running or expanding an aerospace/defense desk mention most often in 2026, mapped to the layer above where each is strongest.

Tool	Strongest layer	Best for	Pricing signal	Main watch-out
SeekOut	AI sourcing + cleared-talent search	Agencies needing clearance filters plus deep-technical, patent/publication-level reach	Custom enterprise pricing, sales-gated [2]	Clearance level is AI-inferred from career history, not independently verified [2]
hireEZ	AI sourcing built for defense & aerospace	Agencies wanting a purpose-built defense/aerospace sourcing and rediscovery tool	~$169-199/month entry, ~$13,000 median annual contract per anonymised 2026 buyer data [3]	Also sold directly to employers to "reduce dependency on agencies" - know which side of the table you're on [3]
ClearanceJobs	Cleared-talent job board + RPO	Agencies wanting the largest US cleared-candidate reach and an outsourced sourcing arm	Custom subscription/RPO pricing, request quote [4]	Roughly 10x the traffic of ClearedJobs.Net, but no published self-serve pricing [4]
ClearedJobs.Net	Cleared-talent job board + Auto Match	Agencies wanting a veteran-owned board with dedicated account management	Posting and account-management fees, request pricing [5]	Smaller reach than ClearanceJobs; fewer resume filters (6 vs 14) [5]
ClearMatch	Agent-driven cleared-candidate matching	Smaller agencies wanting transparent pricing and ranked shortlists instead of Boolean search	$149-399/month published employer tiers; candidate access free [6]	New entrant - smaller track record and dataset than SeekOut or ClearanceJobs
Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary	Veteran and transitioning-military talent	Agencies whose A&D desk leans on ex-military technical and cleared talent	Staffing, job-fair and advertising fees on request [7]	A veteran-talent specialist first, not a general aerospace/defense sourcing platform
GovWin IQ (Deltek)	Government contract intelligence / BD signal	Agencies wanting to see a contract award coming before the hiring mandate lands	Roughly $12,000-$42,000+/year across four seat tiers [8]	Built for contractors chasing the contract itself, not for staffing a role once it is won

boilr is deliberately not on that table as a competing row. It does not source cleared candidates, run a clearance-verification process, or track federal contract solicitations, and it should not be judged against SeekOut, ClearanceJobs or GovWin IQ on that axis. What it does is sit earlier in the commercial-hiring signal chain, covered honestly further down.

SeekOut - AI Sourcing for Cleared and Deep-Technical Talent

SeekOut built a dedicated capability around one of the hardest searches in technical recruiting: finding candidates with an active US security clearance. Its database holds 3.7 million-plus cleared profiles spanning TS/SCI, Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Public Trust and interim clearance levels [2].

What SeekOut does well

• Clearance-level filtering at scale - power filters combine clearance status with years of experience, current and past employers, location radius and relocation willingness into one targeted pool [2].
• AI-inferred clearance detection - algorithms infer likely clearance level from a candidate's career history (agencies worked for, contract types, job titles), saving hours of manual cross-referencing [2].
• Deep-technical reach beyond LinkedIn - searches across 96 million-plus published papers, patents and conference presentations, useful for genuinely scarce propulsion, avionics or systems-engineering specialists [2].

Where SeekOut is not the right fit

• Inference is not verification - an AI-inferred clearance level is a strong lead, not a confirmed fact; the candidate's actual clearance and US-person status still need manual confirmation before submission.
• Sourcing only - SeekOut finds candidates. It has no visibility into which prime or subcontractor is about to open an aerospace/defense mandate in the first place.

hireEZ - The Purpose-Built Defense & Aerospace Sourcing Platform

Unlike generalist sourcing tools that treat defense as one category among many, hireEZ ships a dedicated "AI recruiting platform for defense and aerospace recruiters" product line, positioned explicitly around cleared, mission-critical hiring [3].

What hireEZ does well

• Aggregated sourcing across 45-plus platforms - open web, deep search and partner networks, aimed at locating candidates with active clearances and relevant domain expertise quickly [3].
• Candidate rediscovery - automatically resurfaces qualified candidates already sitting in an ATS, useful when re-engaging specialised cleared talent for a new mandate [3].
• Defense-sector compliance framing - the platform is built with defense- sector expectations around data handling, privacy and audit readiness in mind [3].

Where hireEZ is not the right fit

• It is also sold directly to employers - hireEZ's own defense-solution page states the goal of helping organisations "reduce dependency on agencies" [3]. Agencies evaluating it should go in aware that the vendor's other customer is the client they are trying to sell BD to.
• No public price page - real-world deals for the platform range roughly $6,600-$25,000 a year, with a $13,000 median annual contract in anonymised 2026 buyer data, and only a sales-gated 14-day trial to evaluate against [3].

ClearanceJobs and ClearedJobs.Net - The Cleared-Talent Job Boards

A large share of aerospace and defense hiring never surfaces outside a cleared-specific channel. Two platforms dominate that niche, and they are not interchangeable.

• ClearanceJobs is meaningfully larger by every public metric: roughly 10x the traffic of ClearedJobs.Net, 14 resume filters plus its own IntelliSearch tool (versus 6 filters on ClearedJobs.Net), a live-chat support option, and a full-cycle Recruitment Process Outsourcing service for contract, contract-to-hire or direct placement [4].
• ClearedJobs.Net is veteran-founded and veteran-owned, running since 2001, with an account-management team drawn from military, veteran-spouse and former recruiter backgrounds, plus AI-powered Auto Match technology layered on an exclusive pool of cleared resumes and profiles [5]. It competes on community, events and longer-term customer relationships rather than raw scale [5].

Neither has published self-serve pricing for 2026; both require a sales conversation to get a quote [4][5]. Agencies with the budget for only one typically pick ClearanceJobs for raw candidate reach and ClearedJobs.Net when a hands-on account-management relationship and veteran-community access matter more than scale.

ClearMatch - The AI-Native Challenger to the Cleared Job Board

ClearMatch is the newest entrant in this category and takes a genuinely different approach: it is built as an agent rather than a board [6].

What ClearMatch does well

• Automated market scanning - its Hiring Agent scans USAJobs plus roughly 20 vetted GovCon employer careers pages daily, rather than waiting for postings to be manually aggregated [6].
• Structured clearance modelling - a seven-tier numeric clearance ladder with agency and programme as structured fields, parsed from resumes and LinkedIn profiles [6].
• Narrative, ranked matching - shortlists come with explanatory paragraphs on why each candidate matches, instead of raw Boolean keyword hits [6].
• Transparent, low-cost pricing - published employer plans at $149, $399, or custom Enterprise per month, with candidate access free forever [6], a sharp contrast to the sales-gated pricing common elsewhere in this category.

Where ClearMatch is not the right fit

• Smaller dataset and track record - as a newer platform it has not yet built the scale of ClearanceJobs' resume pool or SeekOut's cleared-profile database.
• Sourcing only - like the rest of this layer, it matches candidates to open roles. It has no visibility into which client is about to open one.

Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary and DoD SkillBridge - The Veteran-Talent Pipeline

A disproportionate share of cleared, technically trained A&D talent moves through military-to-civilian channels rather than open commercial job boards, which makes this its own distinct layer of the stack.

• Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary is now the largest military recruiting company in the US after Bradley-Morris' acquisition of RecruitMilitary, offering employers access to more than one million military job seekers through recruiting services, job fairs, a veteran job board and employer branding [7]. Other named firms in this space include Orion Talent, Lucas Group Military Division and Cameron-Brooks [7].
• DoD SkillBridge is not a vendor tool but a channel worth building a relationship with directly: it lets service members in their last 180 days of active duty work for a participating employer while still drawing military pay, and roughly 25,000 service members use it annually across 6,344-plus partner organisations [13]. A 2026 initiative, Project Patriot Pipeline, specifically fast-tracks SkillBridge placements within the defense industrial base [13]. GE Aerospace and BAE Systems are both active SkillBridge partners, and BAE reports nearly 20% of its workforce holds veteran status [13].

Agencies serious about an A&D veteran pipeline typically pair a specialist firm or direct SkillBridge partnerships with one of the sourcing tools above, since neither layer alone covers both the cleared-civilian and the transitioning-military candidate pools.

GovWin IQ - Seeing the Contract Award Before It Becomes a Hiring Mandate

Every aerospace/defense hiring mandate traces back to a contract win. GovWin IQ, Deltek's government contract intelligence platform, is built to surface that win before the req ever exists: on average 75% of its analyst-tracked opportunities sit in the forecast or pre-RFP stage, giving teams time to build relationships before competitors even know an opportunity is coming [15].

What GovWin IQ does well

• Pre-solicitation visibility - pairs 150-plus market analysts, who talk directly to government agencies, with AI-driven intelligence to validate opportunities before they hit SAM.gov [15].
• Forecast depth SAM.gov cannot match - surfaces agency spending patterns, incumbent contract data and pre-solicitation market research that shows an agency is preparing to buy, not just what has already been posted [15].

Where GovWin IQ is not the right fit

• It is a BD tool for winning the contract, not for staffing the role - it tells a contractor an opportunity exists; it does nothing to source, clear or verify a candidate once the contract is won.
• Expensive and opaque - real-world 2026 quotes range from roughly $12,000/year for a single-seat starter package to $42,000-plus/year for the full enterprise build, on annual-only contracts with no published pricing [8].
• Built for the contractor, not the recruitment agency - most agencies use GovWin IQ signals second-hand, by watching which of their prime and subcontractor clients are winning work, rather than subscribing to the full platform themselves.

The ITAR "US Person" Filter: A Hiring Problem Cybersecurity Recruiting Doesn't Have

Aerospace and defense recruiting carries a compliance layer that most other technical recruiting categories, including cybersecurity, simply do not: a citizenship-based access filter that has to be applied before a candidate is even considered for many roles.

• Only US persons can access controlled technical data without a licence. Under 22 CFR 120.15, "US person" means US citizens, lawful permanent residents (green-card holders), and certain refugees or asylees [11].
• Sharing controlled data with a non-US person, even briefly, is a "deemed export." This applies regardless of where the disclosure happens, including inside the US, and regardless of intent [11].
• None of the sourcing or job-board tools above check for this. They filter for clearance level, skills and experience, not citizenship or immigration status; that verification step still sits with the recruiter or the client's compliance team.
• Getting it wrong is not a soft failure. Submitting a non-US-person candidate for an ITAR-controlled role, even unknowingly, exposes both the agency and the client to export-control liability, not just a wasted submission.

In practice, this means an A&D desk needs a screening question ("Are you a US citizen or lawful permanent resident?") built into intake before any candidate reaches a technical interview, not bolted on after a shortlist is built.

Manual vs AI-Driven Aerospace/Defense Sourcing: What Actually Changes

Task	Manual process	With an AI-driven A&D sourcing stack	What does not change
Building a cleared-candidate shortlist	Manual Boolean strings across LinkedIn and job boards, days of digging	Clearance-filtered search in minutes, AI-inferred clearance level [2]	The actual clearance and US-person status still need manual confirmation
Matching a candidate to a clearance-and-programme profile	Recruiter judgement, easy to mis-scope agency/programme fit	Structured, narrative matching against a numeric clearance ladder [6]	A human still validates the scope against the actual client brief
Reaching transitioning military talent	Ad hoc outreach, base visits, informal referral networks	Specialist veteran platforms and structured SkillBridge partnerships [7][13]	Relationship-building with base transition offices stays largely human
Spotting a client about to open a contract-driven mandate	Waiting for the role to hit a job board, competing with every other agency	Pre-RFP contract intelligence (GovWin IQ) or commercial hiring-signal detection, often before the req is posted [8]	Outreach, relationship-building and the pitch itself stay fully human

What Agencies Get Wrong When Buying Aerospace/Defense AI Tools

Mistake #1: Buying a sourcing tool and expecting it to generate BD

SeekOut, hireEZ and ClearMatch are excellent at finding candidates once a mandate exists. None of them tell you which client is about to open one. Agencies that buy sourcing tools expecting a pipeline of new client business are solving the wrong end of the funnel.

Mistake #2: Treating an inferred clearance as a confirmed one

AI-inferred clearance levels, as SeekOut itself is transparent about, are estimated from career history [2]. Submitting a candidate on that basis without independent confirmation risks a wasted client conversation and, in this sector, a credibility hit that is hard to recover from.

Mistake #3: Skipping the ITAR US-person screen until late in the process

None of the sourcing or job-board tools in this category verify citizenship or immigration status. An agency that builds a strong shortlist before confirming US-person status risks submitting a candidate who is legally ineligible for the role, wasting the client's time and the agency's credibility.

Mistake #4: Evaluating hireEZ purely as an agency tool

hireEZ's own defense-solution messaging is aimed partly at reducing employer dependency on staffing agencies [3]. Agencies should evaluate it with that context, not assume every vendor in this category is agency-neutral.

Mistake #5: Subscribing to GovWin IQ before checking a cheaper signal already exists

At $12,000-$42,000-plus a year [8], GovWin IQ is a serious spend for an agency, not a contractor. Most A&D-focused agencies get more value watching their existing prime and subcontractor clients' public contract wins and combining that with a commercial signal-detection layer than subscribing to the full platform themselves.

See how earlier signal detection fits alongside your cleared-sourcing stack: try boilr free or book a 20-minute demo and walk through your own aerospace or defense desk.

Where boilr Fits - Honestly

boilr is not a cleared-candidate sourcing tool, a cleared-talent job board or a contract- intelligence platform, and it should not be evaluated against SeekOut, ClearanceJobs or GovWin IQ on that axis. It does not source candidates with a TS/SCI clearance, does not verify US-person status, and does not track federal solicitations. What it does is sit earlier in the commercial side of the process: helping a consultant spot and reach the client before the mandate exists, using Signals to detect funding rounds, executive moves, expansions and hiring velocity across 10,000-plus sources, often 48-72 hours before a role is posted publicly [14]. For an A&D desk specifically, that means catching a subcontractor's first VP Engineering hire after a new award, a prime's expansion into a new facility, or a defense-tech startup's Series B before a competing agency's cold call ever lands - the commercial-side signal that complements, rather than replaces, watching public contract awards directly.

Once a client relationship exists, boilr's Company Brain retains what that client has already told the agency: preferred clearance thresholds, which programmes or primes they work under, which pitch angle landed, which candidate profile they actually hired. That context survives past the one consultant who first won the account, which matters in a sector this relationship-driven, where losing the consultant who understood a client's programme nuance genuinely costs the relationship. Candidates handles sourcing across LinkedIn, referral networks and passive pools with match rationale and draft outreach - a useful complement to, not a replacement for, cleared-specific tools like SeekOut or ClearMatch when a niche clearance-gated search is required. ICP scoring keeps the desk focused on the primes, subcontractors and defense-tech scale-ups that actually match the agency's placement history, instead of chasing every contract win indiscriminately. The consultant still verifies and sends every task; boilr does not autonomously contact candidates or clients.

Question	Honest answer
Does boilr replace SeekOut, ClearanceJobs or hireEZ?	No. boilr does not source cleared candidates or maintain a defense-talent database. Keep a dedicated sourcing tool for that job.
Does boilr verify a candidate's clearance or US-person status?	No. It has no verification product. That confirmation step stays with the recruiter and the client's compliance team.
Does boilr replace GovWin IQ for spotting contract awards?	No. GovWin IQ tracks federal solicitations and awards directly. Signals detects commercial hiring activity (funding, exec moves, expansion) that often follows a win.
What does boilr actually add for an A&D desk?	Earlier commercial-side client visibility via Signals, and a Company Brain that retains a client's programme and clearance context so the next consultant does not rediscover it.

A 30-Day Evaluation Plan

1. Week 1 - Map the four layers against your desk: list which of sourcing, cleared job boards, veteran pipelines and BD signal detection you are already covering, and which is your real gap.
2. Week 1 - Shortlist one sourcing tool and one cleared job board: not five. SeekOut or ClearMatch alongside ClearanceJobs or ClearedJobs.Net covers most desks without stacking overlapping subscriptions.
3. Week 2 - Run five live mandates through each shortlisted tool: not demo data. Time the actual shortlist turnaround and note how many results need manual re-scoping.
4. Week 2 - Build the ITAR US-person question into intake now: not after a shortlist exists. Confirm every candidate's citizenship/permanent-residency status before a technical interview, regardless of what tool sourced them.
5. Week 3 - Decide whether veteran talent needs its own channel: if your A&D book leans technical-veteran, evaluate Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary or a direct SkillBridge partnership as a distinct workstream, not an afterthought of a generalist tool.
6. Week 3 - Get real pricing in writing: several tools in this category, including hireEZ and GovWin IQ, have no public price page - get the full annual cost, not just the headline monthly figure, before committing.
7. Week 4 - Check who is actually spotting new mandates: if the honest answer is "we wait for the job board or the contract announcement," trial a signal-led BD layer alongside your sourcing stack rather than instead of it.
8. Week 4 - Decide on total desk coverage, not one impressive demo: the best individual tool is worthless if it leaves one of the four layers completely uncovered.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best AI sourcing tool for aerospace and defense recruitment agencies in 2026?

It depends on the desk. Agencies needing deep-technical reach alongside clearance filtering typically get the most from SeekOut. Agencies wanting a platform purpose-built around defense and aerospace, rather than a generalist tool with clearance filters bolted on, often prefer hireEZ. Smaller agencies wanting transparent, published pricing instead of sales-gated quotes increasingly evaluate ClearMatch.

How big is the aerospace and defense workforce shortage in 2026?

The US aerospace and defense sector employs roughly 2.23 million people across direct and indirect roles, with over 70,000 cleared positions currently unfilled. Annual attrition runs at 15%, more than double the cross-industry average, and 29% of the workforce is old enough to retire, a combination industry analysts expect to widen the gap further through the decade.

How long does a security clearance actually take to process in 2026?

Average investigation processing time sits at 243 days across all clearance levels. Secret- level clearances typically take 4-8 months; Top Secret runs 8-18 months. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency's case backlog has fallen roughly 65% from early 2025 levels but still sits around 100,000 cases, so clearance timelines remain a real planning constraint for any A&D placement.

What is the ITAR "US person" requirement and why does it matter for recruiting?

Under 22 CFR 120.15, a "US person" is a US citizen, lawful permanent resident, or certain refugees and asylees. Only US persons can access export-controlled technical data without a licence; sharing that data with anyone else, even briefly and even inside the US, counts as a "deemed export." No mainstream sourcing or cleared-job-board tool checks this automatically, so agencies need to confirm a candidate's citizenship or residency status before submitting them for an ITAR-controlled role, not after.

Can an AI sourcing tool actually confirm a candidate's security clearance?

Not reliably on its own. Tools like SeekOut infer likely clearance level from career history - agencies worked for, contract types, prior roles - which narrows the search dramatically but is not a confirmed fact. Agencies still need to independently verify a candidate's actual clearance status and US-person eligibility before submitting them to a client.

Is GovWin IQ worth it for a recruitment agency, or only for contractors?

For most recruitment agencies, no, not as a direct subscription. GovWin IQ is priced and built for contractors bidding on the contract itself, with real-world 2026 quotes ranging from roughly $12,000 to $42,000-plus a year. Most agencies get more practical value watching their existing clients' public contract wins directly and pairing that with a commercial hiring-signal tool, rather than subscribing to the full platform themselves.

Why does veteran and transitioning-military talent matter so much in this sector specifically?

A disproportionate share of cleared, technically trained aerospace and defense talent comes through military service, which already provides both the security clearance and the relevant technical training. Specialist firms like Bradley-Morris/RecruitMilitary and DoD programmes like SkillBridge, which places roughly 25,000 transitioning service members annually with employers including GE Aerospace and BAE Systems, exist specifically because generalist sourcing tools are not built to reach this pool effectively.

Can boilr help an agency source or clear aerospace/defense candidates directly?

Not on its own for cleared or niche technical searches - keep a dedicated tool like SeekOut, hireEZ or ClearMatch for that, and keep clearance/US-person verification with the recruiter or client compliance team regardless of which sourcing tool is used. boilr's Candidates module sources across LinkedIn, referral networks and passive pools for general and technical roles, useful alongside cleared-specific tools rather than instead of them. Where boilr adds distinct value is earlier: Signals flags commercial hiring activity at aerospace and defense companies before the role reaches a job board, and the Company Brain retains a client's programme and clearance context across consultants.

Sources

Information sourced from public vendor pages, industry research reports and market analysis as of August 2026.

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11. North Carolina A&T State University - Export Controls: Controlled Technology and Technical Data
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13. Department of War (DoD) SkillBridge - Official Program Site
14. boilr - Signals
15. Deltek - GovWin IQ: Find Leads First, Win More Contracts