Vencore, Inc. was a
private defense contractor that serves the
U.S. Intelligence Community
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Department of Defense and other agencies. From 2010 to 2014, the company was named The SI Organization, Inc. (the SI). The SI provided full life cycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities, according to its corporate website. Major locations include
Chantilly
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Places
France
* Chantilly, Oise, a city located in the Oise department
** US Chantilly, a football club
* Château de Chantilly, a historic château located in the town of Chantilly
United States
*Chantilly, Miss ...
(VA),
Basking Ridge (NJ),
Denver (CO),
Laurel (MD),
Los Angeles (CA),
Red Bank (NJ),
St. Louis (MO), and
Valley Forge (PA). The company employed approximately 2,000 people. It is now part of
Peraton.
History
The SI was founded in 1972 in
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, as part of
GE Aerospace
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, when a team of 60 engineers began providing systems engineering and integration services to the Intelligence Community. The System Integrator construct was conceived by the US Government to help implement a very large, complex, and expensive space-based national security program. Due to the success of the construct, the SI grew throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as part of Martin Marietta and later Lockheed Martin, expanding into Northern Virginia and Maryland. The SI was divested by
Lockheed Martin
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in 2010 and acquired by private equity firm
Veritas Capital.
In 2012, the SI acquired PhaseOne Communications, a company that provides strategic communications services. In 2013, the SI acquired
Applied Communication Sciences. ACS has capabilities in
cybersecurity and information assurance, network and operations, data analytics, advanced software and methodologies, wireless and mobility, application engineering and integration, smart grid, and optical networking and quantum technologies.
In October 2013, the SI was notified by the
US Air Force Space & Missile Systems Center (SMC) that it had submitted the winning proposal for SMC's follow-on GPS SE&I contract, supplanting incumbent Leidos (formerly SAIC) on the program it had managed since 2007.
In 2014 the SI acquired QinetiQ North America, and soon thereafter, changed its name to Vencore.
In October 2017 it was announced that Vencore would merge with the U.S. Public Sector business of
DXC Technology and with KeyPoint Government Solutions to create a new independent and publicly traded government contractor. The newly formed company was named
Perspecta Inc.
Perspecta Inc. was an American Public service, government services company based in Chantilly, Virginia, Chantilly, Virginia. The company was acquired by Peraton in 2021.
History
Perspecta was formed in 2018 from the merger of DXC Technology's U ...
The merger completed and Perspecta began operations on June 1, 2018. On August 1, 2019, Perspecta acquired Knight Point Systems.
References
Private military contractors
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