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VTG Awarded $130M Warfare Systems Engineering Prime Contract from Naval Sea Systems Command

CHANTILLY, Va., May 7, 2024 — VTG, an industry-leading provider of modernization and digital transformation solutions to Defense and Intelligence Community customers, announced today that it has been awarded a five-year $130 million prime contract to provide end-to-end engineering services, spectrum management, and test and evaluation support for Navy warfare, control, and C5I systems. The contract was awarded to VTG by the NAVSEA Integrated Warfare Systems Engineering Group (SEA 05H) with a Fleet-focused work scope that includes systems, subsystems, and sensors aboard surface ships, aircraft carriers, and unmanned/autonomous vehicles.

“VTG is proud to continue its longstanding support to NAVSEA and excited to partner with SEA05H in integrating the latest technologies and most advanced naval systems into the Fleet,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “This marquee program goes a long way toward ensuring the US Navy deploys the most capable, lethal warships to overmatch near-peer adversaries and reinforces VTG’s position as the Navy’s go-to partner for warfare and C5I systems engineering.”

Since 2000, VTG’s engineers and technical professionals have provided SEA 05H with advanced warfare systems engineering, human systems integration, interoperability, and test and evaluation engineering for the Navy’s manned and unmanned surface fleet. The Company has played an instrumental role in the success of the Navy’s Strike Force Interoperability program, including its C5 Integration Modernization Process and Warfare System Certification programs.

VTG provides the Navy’s systems commands, as well as the office of Naval Research and Strategic Systems Programs, with prime contract solutions and services and thought leadership in emerging Navy programs. Its robust portfolio of capabilities ranges from systems engineering, integration, and production of C5ISR systems to the design, development, and delivery of software-defined technologies for tomorrow’s naval warfighter.

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VTG Enhances Digital Transformation and Cloud Capabilities with Acquisition of Vana Solutions

Chantilly, Va. (April 25, 2024) VTG, an industry-leading national security solutions provider, announced today that it has acquired Vana Solutions, LLC, a Dayton, Ohio-based digital transformation innovator. Vana provides end-to-end digital transformation expertise combined with cutting-edge technologies to deliver secure cloud environments, data fabric solutions, and advanced analytics for mission-critical national security programs.  

“I am pleased to welcome the Vana team to VTG,” said John Hassoun, VTG President and CEO. “Vana is a perfect cultural and strategic fit. It adds deep digital domain expertise, bolsters our portfolio of differentiated technologies, and expands our market presence to the U.S. Air Force – especially to the key commands headquartered or operating from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.”

Founded in 2005 by Srujal Sheth and Sunit Sheth, Vana’s highly skilled, highly technical professional workforce has earned a reputation for best-in-class innovation in the digital space by leveraging its proprietary technology solutions – epicAgile, vKesi, TurboKT, and vIOLA – to solve complex national security challenges, primarily for U.S. Air Force missions and programs. Vana CEO Srujal Sheth said, “I am so proud of our remarkable team – Vana’s success is a testament to their exceptional talent, commitment to our customers, and collaborative spirit.” COO Sunit Sheth added, “VTG shares our passion for the mission and innovative culture. I’m excited about our partnership and for the next phase of our journey.”

The acquisition of Vana will enable VTG to offer a more extensive portfolio of digital transformation and cloud services, solutions, and technologies to a combined customer base that now spans the Defense enterprise and Intelligence Community. This acquisition is VTG’s first since receiving a majority investment from private equity investment firm A&M Capital Partners in September 2023.

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VTG Awarded $30M in Task Orders to Produce CANES Information Warfare Platform for U.S. Navy Destroyers

CHANTILLY, Va., Mar. 19, 2024 — VTG, an industry-leading provider of modernization and digital transformation solutions to Defense and Intelligence Community customers, announced today that it has been awarded three delivery orders valued at an estimated $10 million each to produce and integrate the Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services information warfare platform for six U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyers. This is VTG’s first task order under the $4.1 billion CANES Full Deployment indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract managed by PEO C4I and the Tactical Network Program Office (PMW 160).

“CANES is the information warfare backbone of the Fleet and a critical-path capability for distributed maritime operations,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “We’re excited to ramp-up CANES production manufacturing at our facility and proud to lead a coalition of industry partners and vendors in integrating this tactical network across the Fleet.”

CANES is the Navy’s program of record to consolidate surface ship and submarine C4ISR networks and infrastructure, providing a secure tactical afloat network for Naval and Joint Operations, and enabling the Navy to leverage open architecture designs and introduce the latest commercial-off-the-shelf technologies into naval systems. This new CANES FD task order award will involve the procurement and build-to-print integration of production units customized to meet the stringent requirement of modern naval operations, as well as all engineering services, logistics support, manufacture, assembly, and testing.

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VTG Awarded $80M Hypersonics Engineering Prime Contract from Navy Strategic Systems Programs

CHANTILLY, Va., Jan. 9, 2024 — VTG, an industry-leading provider of modernization and digital transformation solutions to Defense and Intelligence Community customers, announced today that it has been awarded a five-year $80 million prime contract to provide end-to-end engineering services for the Conventional Prompt Strike program, the Navy’s hypersonic strike capability. The U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs awarded the contract to VTG on a sole source basis.

The Defense Department has identified hypersonics as a critical technology vital to strengthening the United States military’s technological superiority and maintaining national security. CPS will provide the Navy with a hypersonic conventional weapon capable of precise, long-range strike against time critical and high value targets. The missile, which is comprised of a hypersonic glide body and a two-stage booster, will fly at speeds exceeding Mach 5 and be launched from both surface ships and submarines. The Navy is the lead designer for the common hypersonic missile that will be fielded by both the Navy and the Army. The Navy’s first CPS weapon system will be deployed aboard the Zumwalt-class destroyers followed by the Virginia-class attack submarines.

“For over two years, VTG has worked closely and collaboratively with Navy SSP, the CPS program office, and our industrial base partners to advance hypersonic technologies,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “We’re proud to be a part of the Navy’s innovation ecosystem and excited to field this leap-ahead capability to the Fleet.”

VTG will provide the CPS Program Office, a division of SSP, with research and development expertise, advanced systems engineering, test planning and test engineering, integrated logistics, and a wide range of programmatic and technical services.

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VTG Awarded $40M Aegis Combat Systems Modernization Task Order from NSWC Port Hueneme

CHANTILLY, Va., Jan. 4, 2024 — VTG, an industry-leading provider of modernization and digital transformation solutions to Defense and Intelligence Community customers, announced today that it has been awarded a $40 million task order to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service for the Navy’s Aegis Combat System. The company will perform the work through its Technical Insertion 16 prime contract with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division, a field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command.

The TI16 program is the Navy’s enterprise approach to modernizing combat systems across the surface fleet, including all cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and amphibious ships. TI16 enables the Navy to introduce the latest commercial-off-the-shelf technologies and open architecture designs into its suite of advanced combat systems.

“VTG enjoys a strong partnership with NSWC Port Hueneme, the Navy’s center of excellence for warfare systems, and we’re excited to expand our scope of support to the Aegis modernization effort,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “Aegis remains the combat systems workhorse of the surface fleet. Our growing team of fleet modernization experts are proud to field the solutions and technologies that protect our sailors from tomorrow’s threats.”

This is VTG’s second task order award supporting the Navy’s TI16 program. The company currently provides TI16 engineering services and lifecycle support to the NSWC-PHD Air Dominance Department. Under this new task order, VTG will install and integrate TI16 Infrastructure-as-a-Service equipment for the Digital Engineering Department, including all engineering services and logistics support, as well as manufacture, assembly, and testing.

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VTG Awarded NAVAIR NAWCAD RAPID MAC Prime Contract

VTG, an industry-leading provider of force modernization and digital transformation solutions, was awarded a RAPID MAC prime contract on the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Webster Outlying Field (WOLF) RAPID MAC IDIQ in Pool 2: Command and Control (C2) Solutions and Pool 4: Shipboard Combat Systems. This effort will provide engineering design, tailored systems engineering, and product acquisition in the development, integration, and fielding of solutions for warfighting capability gaps. The scope includes the application of rapid development, rapid prototyping, and organic Lead Systems Integration in the development of product-based solutions in areas to include: Combat Integration & Identification Systems, Ship & Air Integrated Warfare Systems, Special Communications Mission Solutions, Air Traffic Control & Landing Systems, Airborne Systems Integration, Integrated Command and Control. The period of performance for the RAPID MAC is March 04, 2022 to March 03, 2027.

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VTG Moves Up to #22 in Washington Business Journal’s List of Largest Government Technology Contractors

Alexandria, Va., Mar. 16, 2022 – VTG, an industry-leading provider of force modernization and digital transformation solutions, announced today it has ranked No. 22 on Washington Business Journal’s List of Top Government Technology Contractors. This is an advancement of 10 places above its ranking as No. 32 on the same prestigious list last year. The popular D.C. area business publication annually celebrates the largest government technology contractors in the federal market based on total number of full-time employees that each company employs in the Greater Washington region.

“I’m once again grateful to the Washington Business Journal for acknowledging VTG’s impressive growth over the past year,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “But I’m especially proud of the team from across the VTG enterprise. We have been tremendously successful in growing our business because of the deep expertise and steadfast commitment that VTG’s talented professionals provide our defense and intelligence community customers in areas most critical to the nation’s security.”

Last fall, VTG also ranked No. 28 on Washington Business Journal’s 2021 Fastest Growing Companies list with a three-year growth rate of 59.25 percent. It was VTG’s second year on the Fastest Growing Companies list.

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VTG celebrated as #28 on list of Fastest Growing Companies in the D.C. area by Washington Business Journal

Chantilly, Va., Oct. 15, 2021 – VTG, an industry-leading provider of force modernization and digital transformation solutions, announced today that it has been ranked No. 28 on Washington Business Journal’s 2021 Fastest Growing Companies list with a three-year growth rate of 59.25%.

“I’m very proud of our committed team of professionals throughout the VTG enterprise and grateful to the Washington Business Journal for recognizing our success,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “This has been an extraordinary time for VTG. Our acquisitions have stimulated impressive organic growth, and we’ve deepened our expertise in technologies critical to our nation’s security. We’re excited about our business growth but even more excited about the transformative capabilities we’re delivering to our defense and intelligence community customers.”

This is VTG’s first year on the Washington Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Companies list, which acknowledges companies’ growth and success over the past three years within the D.C. area. Earlier this year, VTG ranked as No. 32 on Washington Business Journal’s list of Top Government Technology Contractors, which is based on the number of employees in the Greater Washington region and celebrates the largest government contractors in the federal market.

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VTG Awarded $116M NIWC-PAC Prime Contract for C4ISR Engineering and Production

Chantilly, Va., April 27, 2021

VTG, an industry-leading provider of force modernization and digital transformation solutions, announced today that it has won a prime contract from the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific to provide C4ISR engineering and production services to its Network Integration Engineering Facility. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity NIEF Production Services contract has a potential value of $116 million over a five-year performance period.

“For more than 50 years, VTG has provided the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and NIWC-PAC with C4ISR installation and integration support both afloat and ashore,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “We’re proud of that longstanding partnership and excited about this new opportunity to leverage our growing C4ISR production capabilities in support of the NIEF’s mission.”

The NIWC-PAC NIEF, located at NAVWAR headquarters in San Diego, California, specializes in the rapid design and integration of commercial and government off-the-shelf products for military applications. It also provides environmental qualification testing services for those products, and limited- and full-rate production. The facility was modernized in 2019 to better support the design and delivery of advanced information warfare capabilities to the fleet.

VTG will provide the NIEF with procurement, fabrication, and integration of C4ISR end items, including production units, ancillary kits, sub-systems, assemblies, sub-assemblies, modules, and spares. These end items include a full spectrum of C4ISR systems for surface ships, submarines, and shore-based applications.

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VTG Awarded $188M NSWC Port Hueneme TI16 Contract to Modernize Combat Systems Across the Fleet

Chantilly, Va., April 7, 2021 – VTG, an industry-leading provider of force modernization and digital transformation solutions, announced that it has been awarded the Technical Insertion 16 Sustainment, Installation, Procurement and Engineering Services contract by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division, a field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a potential value of $188 million and a five-year period of performance.

“VTG has a proud legacy of closely collaborating with the Navy to engineer the next generation of sea power,” said John Hassoun, VTG president and CEO. “The TI16 program enables VTG to build upon that legacy, expanding our technical expertise, strengthening our partnership with NSWC Port Hueneme and NAVSEA, and – most importantly – modernizing the fleet.”

The TI16 program is the U.S. Navy’s enterprise approach to modernizing combat systems across the surface fleet – most notably the Aegis Combat System – and includes all cruisers and destroyers, aircraft carriers, and amphibious ships. TI16 also enables the Navy to introduce the latest commercial off-the-shelf technologies and open architecture designs into its combat systems.

VTG will leverage its robust, full lifecycle combat systems engineering capabilities to fulfill TI16 program requirements. The company currently provides prime contract warfare, control, and C5I engineering services to the NAVSEA Naval Sea Systems Engineering Directorate and has over 50 years of experience installing and integrating advanced C5ISR systems aboard every existing U.S. Navy surface ship and submarine class. Most recently, VTG completed the successful installation and integration of the ODIN directed energy laser weapon system aboard two Arleigh Burke class destroyers. The company will also leverage its growing digital and software engineering capabilities. Earlier this month, VTG announced that it had begun work on a prime contract to develop the future state of the Navy Operational Architecture and to optimize fleet interoperability. The company also introduced the VTG Battle Lab, an industry-integrated model-based systems engineering environment for next-generation warfare systems.