ManTech Chief Executive Officer Matt Tait explained today how the company is working across a wide range of Federal government agencies on projects to help them better leverage AI technologies, enterprise IT platforms, and zero trust cybersecurity strategies, among others.
Speaking at ManTech’s TechShare 2024 conference in Washington, Tait talked about the conference theme – Cyber Superiority: Deter, Defend and Dominate – and explained how the company is providing mission-focused tech across the intelligence, defense, and Federal civilian branches of government.
He also explained that the company has been opening up more to the public about its business, which was founded 55 years ago.
“Now we are a high-tech, high-end engineering and cybersecurity company that also focuses on trust AI as well as emerging tech,” Tait said.
“Now, we’re finally talking about it,” the CEO said. “We didn’t because we’re in the national security realm, but since our adversaries know what we’re up to, we figured it’s okay to tell you all as well as the American public.”
Tait covered four projects the company is working on that show the breadth of its reach in the government market.
“With Customs and Border Protection, people have read the papers about the fentanyl seizures that have been happening,” he said. “That’s actually the AI models that ManTech developed to make those things happen.”
“Think about mission and enterprise IT as well as cyber with Space Force,” he continued. “We’re actually helping them with digital engineering, digital twinning … and a term we also use – intelligence system engineering – because there’s more than just those capabilities that we bring to bear,” he said, adding, “that’s around launch and launch capabilities, helping them make those things happen faster with higher quality and save money.”
“We’re also helping HUD [Department of Housing and Urban Development] with zero trust, making sure their mission-critical data is protected, as well as making sure we keep the bad guys out,” Tait said.
“One other example is around Cyber Command, which is the JCAP [Joint Common Access Platform] program,” Tait said, adding that the platform has been developed “doing a scaled, agile methodology … so a lot of work there.”
