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VTG Acquires Intelligent Shift, Adding Intelligence Community To Customer Base

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

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VTG Acquires Intelligent Shift, Adding Intelligence Community To Customer Base

John Hassoun, president and CEO of VTG. Photo: VTG

VTG on Thursday said it acquired Intelligent Shift, a small company that enhances its digital transformation capabilities and gives it an entrée into the intelligence community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intelligent Shift adds 100 employees to VTG, which now has about 1,300 personnel. VTG expects to end this year with about 1,500 employees, the company said. “This acquisition represents the next chapter in the strategic transformation of VTG,” John Hassoun, president and CEO of VTG, said in…

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