The G2X Research Team
Trending GovCon Vendor Profiles: September 18, 2026
Ten vendor profiles drawing community research across AI, engineering, mission services, enterprise technology, and government consulting.
These ten vendor profiles drew G2X community research in the GovCon Directory over the last 24 hours. Their capabilities and first-party developments offer context on companies working across government technology, scientific computing, engineering, and professional services.
1. Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds technology and provides mission expertise for government customers, with work spanning cybersecurity, AI, engineering, and national-security operations. Its combination of technical development and advisory work places it across both the design and delivery of complex government programs.
The company’s September Cyber Weapon Index examines how AI models perform as autonomous attackers in a controlled enterprise-network environment. Booz Allen describes the benchmark as a measure of demonstrated behavior, using network and host evidence to evaluate progress through an intrusion. The research adds a concrete testing program to its broader offensive and defensive cybersecurity work.
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Company background — Booz Allen Hamilton.
Company developments and identity — Booz Allen Hamilton.
2. NVIDIA
NVIDIA develops accelerated-computing hardware and software used in AI, scientific computing, simulation, and data-center workloads. Its public-sector relevance extends beyond chips to the software platforms researchers and engineering teams use to build and run applications.
On September 14, NVIDIA expanded its open-source CUDA-Q platform with CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer for designing and testing fault-tolerant quantum applications. The announcement describes work by Fermilab on quantum-system architectures and includes Sandia National Laboratories’ QUOPS benchmark. The focus is on making algorithms, error correction, and hardware choices easier to evaluate together.
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Company background — NVIDIA.
Company developments and identity — NVIDIA.
3. OpenAI Public Sector
OpenAI’s government business brings its AI tools to public-sector work such as service delivery, research, analysis, and internal workflows. OpenAI Public Sector is the government-facing entity represented by this profile, while the company’s wider product portfolio supports developers and enterprise users.
OpenAI introduced the Agents API in public beta on September 10. The announcement describes managed infrastructure and the Codex agent harness for longer-running tasks involving tools, code, files, and intermediate work. It is a broader company product development, complementing OpenAI’s separate government-focused offerings and deployment arrangements.
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Company background — OpenAI Public Sector.
Company developments and identity — OpenAI Public Sector.
Company developments and identity — OpenAI Public Sector.
4. ENSCO
ENSCO provides engineering, science, and advanced-technology capabilities across transportation, aerospace, defense, and intelligence. Its railway work combines inspection systems, condition monitoring, analytics, and testing to help operators understand infrastructure and rolling-stock performance.
In a September 17 announcement, ENSCO outlined its planned InnoTrans demonstrations of connected railway inspection and intelligence. The Automated Maintenance Advisor uses track-condition measurements and deterioration trends to inform maintenance decisions, while TrainBase supports fleet analysis and predictive maintenance. The program also highlights testing and validation at the Federal Railroad Administration’s Transportation Technology Center, which ENSCO operates.
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Company background — ENSCO.
Company developments and identity — ENSCO.
5. Odyssey Systems
Odyssey Systems Consulting Group provides technical, engineering, and integration support for defense missions. Its capabilities span airborne integration, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, and warfighter readiness.
The company describes an approach that runs from acquisition through sustainment, combining domain expertise with engineering and integration work. Its focus includes connecting requirements to operational capability and supporting the organizations responsible for delivering and maintaining those systems. That places Odyssey across several stages of the defense-program lifecycle, from early technical decisions to continued mission support.
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Company background — Odyssey Systems.
6. Salesforce
Salesforce develops enterprise software for customer relationships, data, workflows, and AI-assisted work. Its government business includes Missionforce and Government Cloud, with applications aimed at agency operations, constituent services, and mission support.
On September 16, Salesforce announced additional Missionforce capabilities and a planned OpenAI integration. Its Policy Engine is designed to turn approved policy documents into structured rules and test cases, with human review and approval before deployment. The announcement also describes work with NVIDIA on mission-specific models and operational applications, extending Salesforce’s focus on agency-controlled AI workflows.
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Company background — Salesforce.
Company developments and identity — Salesforce.
7. Leidos
Leidos serves government and commercial customers across national security, health, and critical infrastructure. It traces its roots to the original Science Applications International Corporation, which adopted the Leidos name after the 2013 separation that also created today’s separate SAIC business.
In a September 8 update, Leidos described maritime-autonomy milestones involving Sea Hunter at RIMPAC and Seahawk operating with the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. The systems use the Leidos Autonomous Vessel Architecture for capabilities including autonomous navigation, perception, and collision avoidance. The update focuses on operating autonomous vessels alongside crewed naval forces.
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Company background — Leidos.
Company developments and identity — Leidos.
Company developments and identity — Leidos.
8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise provides enterprise technology across AI, cloud, and networking. HPE became a separate company in the 2015 Hewlett-Packard separation; it is distinct from HP Inc., whose business includes personal computers and printing.
HPE announced an expanded collaboration with Oracle on September 2 to support global AI infrastructure using HPE Juniper Networking. The arrangement includes potential multi-year deployment of routing and switching platforms, networking support, and work on telemetry for identifying congestion and component problems. The announcement centers on the networking foundation needed to connect and operate large AI-computing environments.
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Company background — Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Company developments and identity — Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Company developments and identity — Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
9. Harness
Harness develops a software-delivery platform spanning code, testing, deployment, security, and governance. Its tools connect development activity with the controls and operational steps required to release and maintain software.
A September 9 product update introduced Harness CLI 3.0 capabilities for code review and delivery workflows in the terminal. The release connects pull requests, AI review findings, CI checks, and execution logs, with structured output for automated tools. The announcement gives engineering teams a specific view of how Harness is linking AI-assisted development with review and delivery evidence.
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Company background — Harness.
Company developments and identity — Harness.
10. Significance
Significance is a government consulting firm working on business transformation, financial management, data, and technology modernization. Founded in 2014, the company combines subject-matter expertise with support for federal program delivery.
In July, Significance and Tamayo Federal Solutions announced SiTa Alliance, an SBA-approved mentor-protégé partnership. Significance serves as the mentor, while Tamayo brings its small-business capabilities. The partnership’s stated areas of work include strategy and program management, business-systems modernization, data and automation, engineering, and specialized public-health support. The announcement describes a teaming relationship rather than an individual contract award.
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Company background — Significance.
Company developments and identity — Significance.
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