Rancher Government Solutions has been chosen to join the Leidos Alliance Partner Network — a program designed to drive collaboration between Leidos and select organizations — as an Emerging Technology Partner.
The company’s entry into LAPN will allow the two organizations to tackle the application modernization, containers and Kubernetes-related security and operational needs of the public sector together, Leidos announced from its Reston, Virginia headquarters on Monday.
“Leidos is pleased to welcome Rancher Government Solutions to the Leidos Alliance Partner Network,” said Leidos Chief Information Officer Derrick Pledger.
Pledger said that the companies have collaborated to develop edge-to-cloud architectures, execution patterns and secure Kubernetes methodologies, which he said will support rapid capability deployments and at-scale systems modernization within defense, intelligence and health agencies.
“We look forward to driving continuous modernization as well as helping our shared customers deliver mission outcomes on behalf of the nation,” he added.
Sima Shahin, regional vice president of federal system integrators at RGS, said that the organization is honored to be selected as part of the LAPN.
RGS’ inclusion in the program, she said, exemplifies its dedication to providing the U.S. government with secure, interoperable, open-source Kubernetes and cloud native technologies “in a validated way that has paid off.”
“Together with Leidos, RGS will continue to advance mission success through digital transformation and application modernization,” said Shahin.
RGS recently expanded the availability of its Kubernetes technologies with the release of Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 and Rancher Manager on Amazon Web Services GovCloud, which offers public sector customers the option to immediately procure these tools.
The combined product is a push button, no-code deployment of Rancher tailored to meet the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Security Technical Implementation Guides for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, Rancher Manager and RKE2.