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Intelligence Community-Focused Vibrint Acquires Ampsight Adding New Customers

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, May 19th, 2025

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Intelligence Community-Focused Vibrint Acquires Ampsight Adding New Customers

Tom Lash, CEO of Vibrint. Photo. Vibrint

ST. LOUIS—Vibrint on Monday said it has acquired Ampsight, a small company with expertise in cloud, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence that adds to its customer base in the intelligence community, including the geospatial intelligence space. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The addition of Ampsight boosts Vibrint’s employee count by about 50 percent to more than 220, Tom Lash, Vibrint’s CEO, told Defense Daily at the GEOINT 2025 Symposium. Ampsight accelerates Vibrint’s strategy around cloud migration, cybersecurity, and artificial…

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