Telos Corporation

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]

Telos Corporation

Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: TLS
Industry	Information Technology Cybersecurity
Founded	1969; 56 years ago (1969)
Headquarters	Ashburn, Virginia , U.S.
Key people	John B. Wood (president and CEO)
Revenue	$219.2 Million (2019)[1]
Number of employees	508[2]
Website	telos.com

Telos' Ashburn headquarters

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]