Top 20 Defense Technology Solution Companies - 2015

The present scenario and challenges clouding the defense industry call for an imperative need to modernize outdated legacy IT infrastructures, enabling enterprises to keep up with the rapid pace at which IT is evolving. Since the on-going operations and maintenance costs of legacy systems eat up a major chunk from the budgets of defense organizations, it crowds the ability to innovate and adopt new technologies.

The good news is—global technology disruptions such as mobile operations and advanced analytics coupled with challenging secular industry trends from cloud to automation offer CIO’s the opportunity to lift the IT function to be a true value-creating partner. Leveraging new application and infrastructure delivery models from cloud to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) can rapidly deliver new and scalable capabilities. In many situations these delivery models can also offer sustainable run cost reductions when compared to traditional delivery models.

Finally, layered cyber-security through a more integrated and business-back approach is filling a crucial void, given that cyber-security touches every piece of the business from technology, risk, and legal to marketing and operations of the defense sector. Rapid evolution and escalation of threat environment creates need for a step-change in cyber resiliency that engages IT and business stakeholders.

In order to simplify and assist CIOs identify the right defense technology solution providers, CIOReview presents “20 Most Promising Defense Solution Providers 2015.”

A distinguished panel comprising CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts, and the CIOReview editorial board has selected the top Defense Technology Solution Providers. In our selection process, we looked at the vendor’s capability to fulfill the need for cost-effective and flexible solutions that add value to the Defense lands.