The Industry Innovator awards recognize private-sector companies' vital role in the government IT community. These awards are not for specific agency initiatives, but rather for companies' broader contributions and leadership. 

Congratulations to the 2018 Industry Innovators, which are listed below. Each company will be profiled in more detail this fall, and honored in person at the Nov. 8 Government Innovation Awards dinner.

Accenture Federal Services

Akamai Technologies

The Ambit Group

Booz Allen Hamilton

CACI

CGI Federal

Chemonics International

collab9

Engility

GDIT

Intelligent Waves LLC

IBM

ISSAC Corp

Leidos

ManTech

Merlin International

NCI, Inc.

Ntrepid Corporation

Peraton

Qlik

Qmulos

Red River Technology LLC

RIVA Solutions, Inc.

Trillium Secure, Inc.

Vexcel Imaging Inc.