By: Dawn Zoldi
The GEOINT Symposium 2026 made one thing unmistakably clear: the technology challenge facing the geospatial intelligence community is no longer about collecting more data. It’s about building the infrastructure to run it, the tools to analyze it, the governance frameworks to deploy AI responsibly and the security architecture to protect every identity and system involved. Yesterday, Autonomy Global profiled six Carahsoft partners addressing the data and application layers of that challenge. Today, we turn to the remaining six companies we had the opportunity to interview, which operate at the infrastructure, observability, space operations and AI governance tiers, to complete the picture.
Nutanix: Simple, Scalable Infrastructure for Warfighters
Nutanix provides a simplified cloud infrastructure platform capable of running any modern application, whether on virtual machines, containers, in the cloud or at the edge. Its value proposition for the GEOINT community is the ability to run high-performance, mission-critical applications with less operational complexity, whether those applications live on a classified enterprise network or need to be deployed in austere, forward environments.
In the words of Jorel Taruc, Federal Account Manager at Nutanix, brings nine years with the company and a former U.S. Navy submariner, and supports IC customers across the Washington, D.C., area, “We provide a secure, high-performance, and resilient application hosting platform for the warfighter and for the enterprise. This mission is very important to us. We’re focused on providing the warfighter with simple and effective solutions that help maintain our advantage in the geospatial domain.”
Nutanix came to GEOINT 2026 with several significant announcements: the launch of an AI software factory deployment capability, new strategic partnerships with Dell, NetApp and the ability for IC customers to procure Nutanix directly through the AWS IC Marketplace. The latter simplifies the acquisition pathway that has historically slowed technology adoption in classified environments. You can visit nutanix.com to take a product test drive, or contact Taruc directly at jorel@nutanix.com.
Red Hat: The Trusted Foundation Under Everything
Red Hat is the world’s premier enterprise open source technology company. It takes upstream innovation from the global developer community, applies enterprise-grade hardening and support, and delivers it to mission-critical environments. Its role is not to be the flashy analytics or sensing layer, but to be the foundation that everything else runs on.
“Red Hat is not the sexy space side of the house or the analytics, but we are the trusted, secure environment and the foundation, whether that’s the operating system or the platform for running your analytics, modernizing, or automating all of those key aspects,” noted Scott Brunton, who runs Red Hat’s National Security Region and works with the company’s IC customer base, including NGA and the broader community.
The company’s flagship OpenShift platform, a leading Kubernetes environment, enables agencies to modernize applications in place and run production-grade AI workloads securely. Kyle House, a Red Hat professional with 20 years in the geospatial market, explained that the company’s focus at GEOINT 2026 centered on integrating AI operations tooling within the OpenShift stack — taking the sandbox AI projects that agencies are standing up and helping them transition into production environments that can be relied on for real missions. Learn more at redhat.com or by connecting with Kyle House at khouse@redhat.com or Scott Brunton on LinkedIn.
Dynatrace: Observability Before the Problem Becomes a Crisis
As networks grow more complex and integrated, Dynatrace, a software observability and analytics platform, gives operators a real-time view of what is happening across their entire environment. The company helps identify baseline behavior, detect anomalies, diagnose root causes and prescribe fixes, all before systems fail.
AI is not new to Dynatrace. “We’ve been doing AI for seven years,” according to Michael Reynolds, an Account Executive for Dynatrace who spent more than 40 years in the IC watching networks and missions evolve before joining the company. “It’s been part of our baseline. I’m not only going to tell you what’s wrong; I’m going to tell you what the root cause is. Then I’m going to tell you how to fix it.”
Beyond its software, Reynolds attributes his company’s success to deep partnerships and integrated solutions. In his estimation, mission delivery demands that every piece of the technology stack works together — a philosophy that mirrors the broader direction of the GEOINT ecosystem itself. Connect with Michael Reynolds on LinkedIn or at michael.reynolds@dynatrace.com to learn more.
ServiceNow: Governing the AI That Governs Everything Else
As AI assets multiply across government agencies, the ability to know what is running, what it has access to and whether it is behaving as intended becomes a mission-critical function in its own right. James Vander, Senior Enterprise Account Executive at ServiceNow and a former Marine Corps intelligence officer, brought a practitioner’s perspective to one of the most consequential challenges on the GEOINT show floor: how agencies manage and govern the AI tools they are deploying at scale.
ServiceNow delivers what Vander called an “AI control tower,” a platform that stitches together an agency’s AI systems, datasets and tooling into a single, overarching governance view. “We can stitch together your AI systems, your datasets and your tooling and give you an overarching view of all those to identify vulnerabilities, ensure compliance with all the NIST AI framework standards and give you the end-to-end view of your whole lifecycle,” he said.
Vander emphasized that AI governance is not about restriction, but about creating the rules of the road that allow innovation to run safely. Agencies that establish those guardrails, he argued, will be the ones that can deploy AI confidently, at speed and with the trust of the personnel who use it daily. Learn more by visiting servicenow.com, or connecting with James Vander or Bo Butcher on LinkedIn.
SailPoint: Identity Governance at Every Stage
As organizations grow and personnel move through careers, access rights accumulate and go stale, which creates thousands of orphaned accounts that attackers can exploit. SailPoint governs the entire identity lifecycle of provisioning, modifying and deprovisioning access as those roles change.
“We make sure that identities, to include people, agents, and machines, have the right access to the right resources to do their job at the right time. No more, no less,” said Steve Byrnes, Senior Sales Executive at SailPoint. A former U.S. Marine officer, Byrnes entered the identity management space in 1998 and has worked the full arc of a discipline that has grown from a niche IT function to a national security imperative. The company’s relevance to the IC’s zero trust mandate is direct, he said. Identity is the first pillar of a zero trust architecture, and SailPoint serves NGA and the broader IC community in that role.
The emergence of agentic AI has made SailPoint’s mission more complex and more urgent. AI agents often inherit the full access permissions of the developers who create them, which can create sprawling, under-governed footprints inside agency networks. SailPoint now governs those agents alongside human identities, applying the same rigor to software entities as it does to people. Learn more by contacting Steve Byrnes at 240-401-5432 or visiting sailpoint.com.
Slingshot Aerospace: From Space to Decision
Chris Kinman, Vice President of Business Development at Slingshot Aerospace, represents a company that operates at the intersection of space operations, intelligence and autonomy — a combination that sits squarely at the center of the GEOINT mission.
Slingshot Aerospace was co-founded by Space Force veterans and operates a global ground network of more than 200 electro-optical (EO) sensors that feed a data flywheel combining commercial and proprietary sources. The company’s AI and machine learning (ML) tools, developed over nine years, turn that sensor data into actionable intelligence for IC, DoD, civil and commercial customers. Its services span from launch support through on-orbit operations and maintenance to keep satellites safe and operators informed.
“Consistently, up until about a year or two ago, it was all about data. We’re seeing a huge shift now over to the actual analysis of that data. We’ve got enough data. We’ve got all the sensors. Now it needs to be actionable,” Kinman said. Slingshot’s software products address that gap directly by giving the owner-operator and intelligence communities AI-driven tools to extract meaning from the data their sensors already generate. Explore Slingshot’s capabilities at slingshotaerospace.com or connect with Chris Kinman on LinkedIn.
Carahsoft: The Common Thread
What unites all twelve companies across both installments of this series is their Master Aggregator™ partner, Carahsoft. The premier government IT solutions provider, Carahsoft was founded in 2004 and has built a leading geospatial intelligence business. Its partner ecosystem spans every layer of the technology stack, from infrastructure and identity to analytics, observability and AI governance.
The message the GEOINT Symposium telegraphed this year was that the challenge for this community no longer revolves around finding data or even building AI tools. The hard work now involves governing, securing, integrating and acting on all of it. The Carahsoft partner community is squarely in the business of making that happen.To learn more about Carahsoft’s geospatial and intelligence community partner portfolio, visit carahsoft.com or connect with Lacey Wean at lacey.wean@carahsoft.com.