We built this for the job we used to do.
Our CEO was a 64P. He was the user before he was the founder.
Built by a contracting officer, not a consultant.
Chase Contreras founded Defense Catalyst after serving as a U.S. Air Force contracting officer, the role this platform trains. He came up in operational contracting, deployed twice to CENTCOM, and handled the full span of the job, from routine actions to complex ones. USAFA class of 2017.
Most training in this field teaches the rules and stops there. The instinct to apply them under pressure is the part nobody teaches, and it’s the part he built Defense Catalyst to train.
Operators who’ve done the job.
Air Force contracting officer (64P) who ran the buy your teams run every day. He started Defense Catalyst to train the workforce he came up in. USAFA graduate.
Cyber officer who shipped software on classified defense networks and taught at Officer Training School. She built the platform around how the military already trains its people. USAFA computer science graduate.
Second-time founder. He backed dual-use startups before leaving to build his own, and owns engineering and platform architecture at Defense Catalyst.
Give the force its judgment back.
Your people already have the instincts. What they don’t get is enough reps before the call matters. We build those reps.