Who are the government market's best innovators?

Washington Technology is happy to announced the 2018 class of the Industry Innovators, who are bringing world-class solutions to their government customers.

We've changed the program somewhat from last year. But overall mission is the same:

Recognize the most innovative companies and the solutions they have developed to help their customers meet their missions.

The Industry Innovators are part of our larger Government Innovation Awards program that is a joint effort of Washington Technology, FCW, GCN and Defense Systems.

These awards recognize not only the companies supporting the government’s transformation, but also the individual Rising Stars who are driving change and the Public Sector Innovations that result from all these efforts. Those winners were announced today as well -- you can find more information at the links above, or on the Government Innovation Awards website.

The 25 Industry Innovators cover a range of missions and solutions, from bringing the power of the cloud to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The missions are as diverse as thwarting the threat of drones to helping deliver food to those in need.

We'll profile each company and their solution in the fall and these winners will be honored in person at the Nov. 8 Government Innovation Awards dinner. Until then, congratulations to each of this year's winning projects:

• Accenture Federal Services
• Akamai Technologies
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• CACI International
• CGI Federal
• Chemonics International
• collab9
• Engility
• General Dynamics IT
• Intelligent Waves LLC
• IBM
• ISSAC Corp
• Leidos
• ManTech International
• Merlin International
• NCI Inc.
• Ntrepid Corp.
• Peraton
• Qlik
• Qmulos
• Red River Technology LLC
• RIVA Solutions Inc.
• The Ambit Group
• Trillium Secure Inc.
• Vexcel Imaging Inc.