Every year, the U.S. Department of Defense spends $311B across 42,000 vendors, while startups with the most mission-relevant innovations are locked out. The maze of forms, fragmented portals, and buried opportunities creates a system where procurement lags, warfighters wait, and the best solutions never get fielded.
USUL turns the DoD from gatekeeper to growth engine.
USUL maps government demand to vendor capability in seconds. Instead of 100-page PDFs and disconnected agency sites, vendors now get a single searchable interface. Stakeholder maps, budget insights, contract targets all populate in one AI-native workspace.
And when DoD buyers are ready USUL’s transactional rails let them source what they need directly from the platform; no middlemen, no months-long lags.
More Thoughts From the Team at BVVC:
“The Department of Defense is the largest buyer of innovation in the world. However, it remains shackled by a procurement architecture designed for paper memos and peacetime posturing. USUL forms a new spine for the re-arming republic: a logic layer for warfighters who no longer have time to wait. And like all great revolutions in government software, it begins not with code, but with conviction.
We do not need more consultants. We need insurgents. These are the builders who turn programs into platforms and platforms into doctrine. Jarren and the team at USUL are structuring the architecture to channel that insurgency. And when they succeed, it will not be because they outmaneuvered the primes. It will be because they made themselves indispensable to the mission.
USUL’s team has a rare combination of belief paired with execution. They ship, deploy, and win for Americans solving the country’s hardest problems. And, we will all win when they do.”
“Usul is the modern platform for defense contract capture and federal growth. Our customers have won hundreds of millions in defense contracts for capabilities across Air, Land, Maritime, AI/ML and more.
When Oliver Gomez, Joonghyun Lee and I joined forces during Stanford’s Hacking 4 Defense class, we interviewed 300+ defense companies to intimately understand how difficult it is for national security solutions to get deployed quickly at scale. In normal capital markets this is called dead weight loss. In warfighting, this costs lives.”
– Jarren Reid, CEO and Co-Founder