On October 28, VAST Data Federal, a VAST Data subsidiary delivering the AI Operating System to the U.S. public sector’s defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies, announced a strategic partnership with Leidos to deliver a new, scalable model for cyber defense. Leidos, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and the VAST AI Operating System, aims to deliver a solution that helps global enterprises and federal agencies move from alert overload to decisive, AI-orchestrated response.
Security pipelines at global enterprises and federal agencies now generate trillions of events. Logs, telemetry and alerts outpace human triage and fuel blind spots, burnout and slower responses as uncertainties evolve by the minute. To counter this, Leidos, along with VAST and NVIDIA, brings accelerated detection and an AI-ready data foundation together – NVIDIA Morpheus and NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units(DPUs) for real-time inspection and inference, paired with VAST DataEngine and VAST DataBase to keep years of telemetry instantly searchable for analysts and AI alike. The result is less noise and faster, policy-aware action that helps teams move from alert fatigue to confident, automated security.
“At GTC DC, we’re showing what happens when data, models and agents operate as one system,” said Randy Hayes, vice president, public sector at VAST Data. “With Leidos’ mission expertise, NVIDIA AI architecture and the VAST AI Operating System unifying data and orchestration, security teams can analyze years of telemetry instantly, surface hidden signals with vector search and let AI agents execute policy-driven responses – simplifying operations, accelerating outcomes and improving critical system security.”
“Federal missions demand cyber platforms that scale, adapt and reduce analyst burden,” said Josh Salmanson, vice president and cybersecurity practice lead at Leidos. “By pairing Leidos’ cyber tradecraft with the NVIDIA AI stack and the VAST AI Operating System, we’re eliminating slow, manual steps that stall response. The results are agentic workflows that correlate evidence, construct timelines and recommend or execute actions with the speed and rigor mission environments require.”
Source: VAST Data Federal
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