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Top 10 vendor profiles: October 10, 2026. Market Intelligence Yesterday's G2X community research roundup: the top 10 vendor profiles from the GovCon Directory. The top 10 vendor profiles in yesterday's G2X community research roundup span mission technology, healthcare, research, digital identity and software development. Explore the businesses drawing attention in the GovCon Directory, with current company descriptions and first-party developments that put each profile in context. Leidos works across defense technology, digital modernization, health and critical infrastructure, combining engineering and technology delivery with mission operations. The Directory's legacy S A I C label points to Leidos Inc.; Leidos retained the original company's core when SAIC split into two businesses in 2013. It is distinct from the separate company that now uses the SAIC name. In its October 9 World AI Week update, Leidos emphasized human judgment, governance and cybersecurity as necessary parts of AI use in critical missions. The message puts deployment discipline alongside technical capability: its focus is how AI supports decisions and operations in environments where reliability matters. That is a useful complement to the company's broad defense, health and modernization portfolio. MITRE is a nonprofit applied-research and systems-engineering organization that operates federally funded research and development centers. Its work connects government mission needs with research, commercial technology and independent technical analysis across national security, health, transportation and civil systems. On October 9, MITRE announced an expanded collaboration with the University of Oklahoma covering severe-weather preparedness, healthcare, energy and national security. A separate new paper, The AI Mission Testing Gap, examines how mission-specific testing can establish where advanced AI helps, how it behaves in operational conditions and which safeguards it needs. Together, the developments illustrate MITRE's role in connecting research partnerships with the evidence agencies need before applying technology to consequential work. Loyal Source provides healthcare, workforce, technology and mission-support services for government and commercial customers. Its work includes medical response, healthcare staffing, veteran medical-disability examinations and personnel supporting operations around the world. Those activities connect the company's healthcare identity with a wider government-services delivery organization. The company announced Heath Starr's move from chief growth officer to chief revenue officer on October 8. Loyal Source described the expanded role as bringing growth, client strategy and operations into closer alignment for veteran, military and civilian-agency customers. The change places pursuit decisions and investment priorities alongside delivery responsibilities, a concrete organizational development for readers following how the company approaches its federal market. Peraton delivers mission technology and enterprise IT across defense, intelligence, space, civil and health markets. The MULTIMAX name displayed in the Directory is a legacy business name on the Peraton Inc. record. Peraton's broader lineage includes its 2017 formation from former Harris businesses and subsequent additions in mission support, enterprise technology and space capabilities. In an October 5 announcement, Peraton introduced Jennifer Swanson and Danielle Moyer as vice presidents on its Defense team, focused on technology and strategy respectively. The company tied Swanson's work to digital engineering, software and AI, and Moyer's to acquisition expertise, growth and capture. The appointments show how Peraton is organizing technical and market leadership around defense modernization without reducing its profile to a list of contract wins. Gravann is the current brand of SNO Corp, the legal entity behind this Directory profile. Its website explicitly describes the change as an evolution of the same technology team, with continuity of personnel, customer contacts and delivery practices. The company works in cloud-native modernization, AI integration and enterprise data platforms for government and commercial organizations. The current positioning gives particular weight to bringing AI into existing workflows and connecting fragmented data, alongside the practical work of replacing legacy infrastructure. Its public examples include secure mobile collaboration and a SharePoint-to-cloud migration for a financial regulatory agency. The Gravann name therefore represents a change in brand and emphasis, not a separate company whose past work should be detached from SNO Corp. Slalom is a business and technology consulting firm whose work spans cloud modernization, data, AI and the design of customer and employee experiences. Its public-sector practice addresses the organizational changes that accompany new systems, not just the technology installation itself. An October 9 article on state-government modernization argues that agencies should emerge with the knowledge and flexibility to keep changing their systems after implementation. Slalom describes a child-welfare example in which frontline staff helped shape and test workflows early, and emphasizes agency ownership of operational knowledge. For readers researching government modernization partners, the article provides a concrete view of Slalom's delivery approach: involving program leaders, practitioners and technologists throughout the work so that capability remains inside the agency. Blitzy develops an AI-driven software-engineering platform built around understanding an existing codebase before carrying out development work. The company describes its system as an execution layer across the software development life cycle, using codebase analysis and structured plans to guide implementation. On October 9, Blitzy shared a customer example involving a meal-planning feature added to an existing health and fitness application. The company's account describes automated codebase ingestion, a knowledge graph, a technical specification and an action plan before the feature build. It is a commercial application example rather than a federal deployment announcement, but it illustrates the workflow Blitzy is bringing to enterprise software teams: connecting requirements and system context to code generation and testing. Mathematica combines policy expertise, research methods, data science and technology to help organizations design and improve programs. Its work reaches across health, human services and other public-policy areas, with an emphasis on evaluating what works and translating evidence into operational decisions. Its September 28 publication on responsible AI adoption in child welfare starts with the problems agencies need to solve, rather than selecting a tool first. It distinguishes decisions that should remain human from administrative work that AI might support, and calls for workforce engagement, testing and evidence before broader adoption. That framing connects Mathematica's evaluation background to an immediate implementation question for state agencies: how to reduce administrative burden while protecting professional judgment and the people a program serves. ID.me provides a reusable digital identity wallet that lets people verify their identity and sign in across participating services. The TROOP ID label in the Directory reflects the company's earlier military-community verification service, which expanded into ID.me's broader identity network. The current business serves government, healthcare and commercial organizations. On October 5, ID.me described its partnership with Datavant to let patients reuse existing credentials when requesting medical records. Its September partnership with Plaid addresses a different handoff: matching a verified benefit applicant with ownership of the bank account receiving payment. These developments show the company extending identity verification into connected service workflows, from access to health records to government-benefit payment checks, rather than treating sign-in as an isolated step.

Former Leidos Executive masood Ahmed joins Peraton as Defense Health VP. * Ahmed held federal health roles at Leidos * He spent his early career in telecom engineering in Australia and Pakistan * The hire follows a run of senior Peraton appointments in 2026 The company announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post Wednesday. Peraton said Ahmed brings more than two decades of experience in "driving business growth, operational execution and strategic customer engagement across the globe." Peraton's health portfolio sits alongside a federal health market now driving large-scale modernization and AI work. The Potomac Officers Club's 2026 Healthcare Summit on Dec. 3 will examine the technology, AI and modernization priorities of the Defense Health Agency, HHS, the Veterans Health Administration and other agencies. Register now to secure your seat. What federal health roles did Ahmed hold at Leidos? Ahmed spent about a decade at Leidos, most recently serving as vice president of government solutions, a post in which he oversaw a portfolio spanning federal health and civilian agencies, according to his LinkedIn profile. His health sector work there began in 2019 as chief architect for health and human services, followed by a two-year run as vice president and chief technology officer for civilian health starting in 2022. From 2024 until January 2026, he led the company's federal health portfolio as vice president of public health and human services. What is Ahmed's engineering background? Ahmed began his career in telecommunications, supervising technical implementation at Alan Dick Pakistan from 2004 to 2006 on mobile network deployments across the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He spent nearly six years at Alcatel-Lucent Australia, first as a systems engineering team lead and later as Asia-Pacific bids and proposal manager, before moving to Telstra in 2013 as general manager of systems engineering and project services. His profile tied his Telstra leadership role to Joint Project 2047, an Australian Defence Force program aimed at upgrading and modernizing fixed communication systems across hundreds of sites. He joined Leidos in Melbourne, Australia, in 2016 as chief system engineer for defense and intelligence. Ahmed holds a master's degree in engineering management from the University of Technology Sydney and a bachelor's degree from the University of Wollongong. What other leadership changes has Peraton made this year? Peraton is one of 12 firms the DHA selected in July for a $300 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract supporting deployment activities for the Program Executive Office Defense Healthcare Management Systems. The underlying solicitation covered health IT systems, including the MHS GENESIS electronic health record system. War Secretary Pete Hegseth has unveiled Project Meridian, the Autonomous Warfare Command and four other DOW initiatives at Quantico. The Coast Guard's Force Design 2028 execution is accelerating, with organizational changes completed and major contracts awarded. TTM financed the Epiq purchase with a $300M Term Loan A and an $800M Term Loan B.