The G2X Research Team
Trending GovCon Vendor Profiles: September 20, 2026
Ten vendor profiles drawing community interest across federal services, consulting, cloud, communications, and cybersecurity.
These ten vendor profiles drew G2X community interest in the GovCon Directory over the last 24 hours. Their capabilities, company histories, and recent developments provide context for researching potential partners, incumbents, and competitors.
1. Peraton — Multimax heritage
The Multimax name reflects a business lineage now represented by Peraton. Harris acquired Multimax in 2007 and combined it with its technical-services business; the former Harris Government Services business took the Peraton name in 2017. Peraton supports government missions spanning national security, intelligence, space, communications, and digital operations.
Its current Peraton[x] platform focuses on using agentic AI across mixed enterprise information, including documents, schedules, contracts, and geospatial data. Peraton describes source-attributed analysis and connections to existing systems as central features. A September 17 company update also highlighted its participation in a Federal Aviation Administration managers’ conference discussion on air-traffic-system modernization.
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Company background — G2X.
Company developments and identity — Peraton — Multimax heritage.
Company developments and identity — Peraton — Multimax heritage.
Company developments and identity — Peraton — Multimax heritage.
Company developments and identity — Peraton — Multimax heritage.
Company developments and identity — Peraton — Multimax heritage.
2. Guidehouse — Navigant heritage
Guidehouse completed its acquisition of Navigant in 2019, bringing the combined organization under the Guidehouse name. Its business connects consulting, technology, and managed services across government and regulated commercial markets, including healthcare, energy, financial services, and national security.
On September 9, Guidehouse released Tech Guide 2026, a framework for moving AI efforts beyond experimentation and into operational transformation. The publication addresses how organizations connect technology adoption with governance, workforce needs, and practical delivery. That focus complements the firm’s work helping public- and private-sector organizations change the processes that technology supports.
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Company background — Guidehouse — Navigant heritage.
Company developments and identity — Guidehouse — Navigant heritage.
Company developments and identity — Guidehouse — Navigant heritage.
3. Deloitte Consulting
Deloitte Consulting is part of Deloitte’s broader professional-services organization, which works with public- and private-sector clients on technology, operations, and organizational change. Its consulting work combines industry experience with engineering and implementation capabilities.
Deloitte announced an Open Model Engineering practice on September 2 to help clients build enterprise AI using a mix of open and proprietary models. The practice emphasizes deployment flexibility, predictable costs, and control over data, intellectual property, and model behavior. Deloitte plans to expand its forward-deployed engineering workforce to support implementation, with the practice initially serving clients across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
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Company background — Deloitte Consulting.
Company developments and identity — Deloitte Consulting.
4. McNeal Professional Services
McNeal Professional Services provides technical staffing and services across telecommunications, network engineering, and information technology. Its stated areas of expertise extend from network planning and systems integration to installation and ongoing administration.
The company also lists inside- and outside-plant work, tower installation, microwave and satellite communications, signal training, and cyber network operations. That combination spans the physical communications infrastructure and the technical personnel needed to operate and support it.
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Company background — McNeal Professional Services.
5. MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit organization that applies systems engineering, research, and technical expertise to problems in the public interest. Its work supports national security and other government missions, including cybersecurity research intended to improve how organizations understand and defend their systems.
On September 10, MITRE’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense described work on a Detection Coverage Calculator. The approach goes beyond simply marking an ATT&CK technique as covered: it evaluates which implementations of an adversary behavior are observable and how robust and precise the detection signals are. The aim is a more meaningful picture of defensive coverage and its gaps.
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Company background — MITRE.
Company developments and identity — MITRE.
6. Creative Business Solutions
Creative Business Solutions is the company identified in the CBS-FLOW profile. Its federal consulting work spans acquisition, financial management, logistics, information technology, and program management.
The company describes support ranging from acquisition life-cycle advice to reconciling financial statements and transaction-level accounts. Its logistics specialists address life-cycle requirements, while its IT team develops software solutions for public- and private-sector customers. Together, these services cover the management processes and supporting systems agencies use to execute their programs.
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Company background — G2X.
Company developments and identity — Creative Business Solutions.
Company developments and identity — Creative Business Solutions.
7. Strategic Operational Solutions — STOPSO
Strategic Operational Solutions, known as STOPSO, provides IT, cybersecurity, application development, and program-management services to government customers. Its cyber work includes both conventional IT environments and operational technology and industrial control systems.
On September 11, STOPSO released Trust Modernization in the Quantum Era, a framework developed by Jason Sidler and David Wilkinson. The company describes it as an approach to integrating Zero Trust and post-quantum cryptography, with an emphasis on preserving trust rather than treating quantum readiness solely as an algorithm-replacement exercise. The publication adds a technical perspective to its broader security and modernization work.
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Company background — Strategic Operational Solutions — STOPSO.
Company developments and identity — Strategic Operational Solutions — STOPSO.
Company developments and identity — Strategic Operational Solutions — STOPSO.
8. Ekasys
Ekasys provides federal IT engineering and operational support, with practices covering application modernization, secure cloud delivery, cybersecurity, data and AI, enterprise content management, and service desks.
Its work connects legacy-system assessments and cloud migrations with the governance needed to keep agency information usable. Examples include records management and document processing, security authorization support, continuous monitoring, and automated software delivery. The company also supports deployed applications and infrastructure through maintenance, monitoring, and service-desk operations.
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Company background — Ekasys.
9. Wiz
Wiz develops cloud-security tools that connect vulnerabilities, identities, network exposure, and other risks across an organization’s environment. Its platform brings security, development, and operations teams a shared view of issues from code through runtime.
On September 10, Wiz announced GovRAMP High authorization for Wiz for U.S. Government. The milestone concerns a security baseline used by state and other public-sector organizations. A September 15 update described deeper integration between Wiz Defend and Google Security Operations, connecting cloud context with investigation and response workflows. Both developments concern the company’s security platform and how customers use it.
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Company background — Wiz.
Company developments and identity — Wiz.
Company developments and identity — Wiz.
10. Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services provides cloud infrastructure and application services, including computing, storage, databases, analytics, and AI. Its services support organizations building new applications as well as those modernizing existing systems.
AWS introduced Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode on September 17. The service runs multiple applications on shared infrastructure powered by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, with AWS managing deployment, scaling, patching, monitoring, and upgrades. Teams can bring source code, Dockerfiles, or container images. The announcement centers on reducing the infrastructure work involved in operating a portfolio of applications through a common management experience.
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Company background — Amazon Web Services.
Company developments and identity — Amazon Web Services.
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