On February 2, Rancher Government Solutions (RGS), announced the promotion of Brian Durden to vice president of solutions engineering, underscoring the company’s continued evolution from a product-focused organization to a solutions-driven provider of mission-ready platforms for U.S. government customers.
In his expanded role, Durden will lead RGS’s solutions engineering organization and a growing distributed edge business unit, focusing on the design and delivery of integrated, turnkey platforms that support secure command and control (C2) operations in contested, disconnected, and resource-constrained environments. He will work closely with customers, partners, and internal engineering teams to ensure RGS solutions remain deployable, sustainable, and operationally relevant from the enterprise to the tactical edge.
This promotion reflects a continued and deliberate shift in RGS’s go-to-market and delivery model. Rather than offering individual technologies à la carte, RGS is increasingly delivering complete, mission-ready solutions, unified platforms that combine infrastructure, orchestration, security, and lifecycle management into systems customers can deploy and operate with confidence.
“RGS is evolving to meet our customers where they operate,” said Jason Motte, chief growth officer at RGS. “That means moving beyond products to deliver full solutions that reduce operator burden and stand up to real-world mission demands. Brian has been a driving force behind this effort, and his leadership will be critical as we continue expanding our edge and platform capabilities.”
Durden brings more than 20 years of experience spanning embedded systems, DevSecOps, and multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures. Prior to joining RGS, he held senior engineering and architecture roles at Pivotal and VMware, supporting large-scale federal modernization programs.
Under Durden’s leadership, RGS has advanced multiple generations of edge capabilities, culminating in platforms such as Harvester Government HCI and Harvester Customizer, which unify virtual machines and containers under a single Kubernetes-based control plane. These solutions are designed to deliver deployable, self-contained edge systems that support mission planning, sensor fusion, analytics, and decision-support workloads in degraded, disconnected, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments.
“This role reflects a broader evolution happening at RGS,” said Durden. “We’re moving from delivering individual products to delivering real solutions—platforms that customers can deploy, operate, and trust in the field. Instead of handing teams parts, we’re giving them the keys to the race car. I’m excited, and humbled to help lead this next phase as we continue building mission-ready edge capabilities alongside our customers.”
Source: RGS
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By Loren Blinde
February 3, 2026
