Leidos’s Managed Infrastructure & Cloud Operations vs. ours

Leidos's approach to Managed Infrastructure & Cloud Operations reflects their broader delivery model: large teams, long timelines, and a scope that expands with the engagement rather than resolving it. Revenue is ~97% US federal government — almost no commercial regulated-industry presence

Managed Infrastructure & Cloud Operations requires a specific kind of engineering precision that generalist delivery models do not produce. The capabilities required — Full infrastructure hosting — cloud, hybrid, on-prem, SentienGuard autonomous monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation, 24/7 incident response with compliance-aware escalation — are not skills that scale with headcount. They require engineers who have delivered these systems in production environments.

Our Managed Infrastructure & Cloud Operations practice deploys teams with production experience in the specific capabilities this service requires. Most MSPs manage servers. They do not manage compliance. When a HIPAA requirement changes, their monitoring does not adapt. When a NERC CIP audit finds a gap in your patching cadence, their SLA does not cover it. We operate differently — we host your infrastructure and deploy SentienGuard across it. SentienGuard handles the 3am alerts autonomously. We handle the compliance posture continuously. You get a single accountable partner, a leaner operations footprint, and infrastructure that runs itself without a room full of people watching dashboards.

Fixed-price delivery with defined milestones. The first milestone is always a working system component — not a document. The engagement closes with full IP transfer: source code, documentation, and the operational capability for your team to run the system independently.

Compliance-Native Architecture Guide

Design principles and a structured checklist for building software that is compliant by default — not compliant by retrofit. For teams building in regulated industries.