At its 2025 Annual Meeting and Exposition, the Association of the U.S. Army presented for the fourth year its National Partner awards, recognizing organizations that provide outstanding support to the association.

“The National Partner Program is critical to the success of AUSA,” said retired Brig. Gen. Jack Haley, AUSA’s vice president for Membership and Meetings. “We simply could not accomplish our mission to educate, inform and connect America with the Army without the support of our National Partners.”

Because of the integral role they play, “we are always looking for ways to recognize these great partners, and the National Partner Awards Breakfast is just one way we recognize their support and give our attendees the opportunity to vote for some of the very best of the best,” Haley said.

AUSA National Partners are large and small businesses, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and professional organizations interested in personalized engagement with the Army at the local and national levels. The association currently has 663 National Partners.

The National Partner awards are presented across five categories.

In the “Best in Show” category, based on the overall design, presentation and creativity of the exhibit experience, the top honor went to Boston Dynamics, which specializes in developing and deploying highly mobile robots capable of tackling industry’s toughest challenges.

Boston Dynamics also won the award for “Best New Product/Service” for its Spot robot designed for explosive ordnance disposal missions and tasks.

Onebrief, which specializes in collaboration and artificial intelligence-powered workflow software, claimed the prize in the “Top Participation (Non-Exhibitor)” category.

Keel, which specializes in high-end defense manufacturing, won the “Rising Star” award for new National Partner participation and activities.

The award for “Top National Partner Feature,” recognizing the most activity on AUSA’s National Partner of the Month web profile, went to Norwich University, a four-year, private senior military college in Northfield, Vermont.

This year, AUSA staff also recognized a few special National Partner members with the 2025 National Partner Superlatives.

The National Partner “Most Likely to Update its Company Roster” was Primer, an artificial intelligence company.

A partner since 1982, Lockheed Martin was the “Longest Serving Community Partner,” and Jackie Roskopp, from General Dynamics Land Systems, received the “Long-Standing National Partner Point of Contact” recognition for her more than 30 years of working with AUSA.

Finally, the “Superstar Speaker” recognition was presented to Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini, a defense software company.

“It was an honor to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our National Partner companies at this year’s awards breakfast,” said Abby Gonzales, AUSA’s National Partner Program membership specialist. “Congratulations to all the winners and nominees for your hard work and dedication. I’m grateful to everyone who joined us to celebrate, and I look forward to seeing even more participation and excellence represented in the years to come.”

For more on the awards, click here. To learn more about AUSA’s National Partner Program, click here.