Telos (company)

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Telos Corporation
Company type Public
Nasdaq:  TLS
Industry Information Technology
Cybersecurity
Founded1969;55 years ago (1969)
Headquarters,
USA
Key people
John B. Wood, President and CEO
RevenueIncrease2.svg $219.2 Million (2019) [1]
Number of employees
508 [2]
Website www.telos.com
Telos' Ashburn headquarters Telos' Ashburn VA headquarters.jpg
Telos' Ashburn headquarters

Telos Corporation is an information technology and cybersecurity company located in Ashburn, Virginia. Telos primarily serves government and enterprise clients, receiving a large number of its contracts from the United States Department of Defense. Customers are primarily military, intelligence and civilian agencies of the US government and NATO allies. [2]

History

Telos was founded in 1969 in Santa Monica, California and incorporated in Maryland in 1971. [3]

In the fall of 1984 Telos released the FileVision program for the Apple Macintosh. [4] InfoWorld magazine gave it an honorable mention [5] in its Product of the Year for database applications.

John B. Wood joined the company in 1992, and became president and chief executive in 1994. [6] Today, Telos is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.[ citation needed ]

The company had revenues of $200 million in 1996. [7]

On 16 June 2020, Telos Corporation reported its Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) service was granted an additional five years and $15.6 million contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). [8]

On 20 May 2020, Telos named retired general Keith B. Alexander as its advisory board's inaugural leader. [9]

In November 2020, the company filed for an initial public offering. [10]

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References

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  5. "Honorable mention". InfoWorld . 7 (20): 22. May 20, 1985.
  6. S&P Global Market Intelligence (September 5, 2018). "John B. Wood Executive Profile". Executive Profile. Bloomberg. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
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