The Red Hat 2025 North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Awards recognize public sector partners for their continued efforts in developing innovative solutions using Red Hat technologies to meet the U.S. government’s needs and improve mission critical outcomes.
In today’s dynamic digital landscape, collaboration between industry and government is essential for developing innovative, customized solutions that enable agencies to better serve citizens. This year’s Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Award winners exemplify that collaboration in action, turning strategic vision into measurable outcomes. Their work accelerates modernization, advances digital resilience, and delivers more secure, mission-ready capabilities that redefine what effective public service looks like.
We are pleased to announce this year’s North America Public Sector Partner Pinnacle Award winners:
Pinnacle Award
Lockheed Martin, for exceptional performance and significant contributions as engineering partners. They collaborated to develop solutions, from enterprise IT platforms to tactical edge mission software, that drive new approaches to safeguarding national security.
Mission Impact
Peraton, for its direct impact on government agency transformation and modernization efforts.
Rising Star
One Technology, for its significant growth in bringing creative ideas to business, customer value, and dedication to Red Hat.
Value Accelerator
Fierce Software and EY, both for their efforts to develop co-created solutions using Red Hat technology that delivers mission impact and sizable growth.
Proven Success
FCN, for its successful engagements and proven value in addressing customer needs in dynamic ways to deliver mission critical programs.
Thank you to all of our North America Public Sector partners for your commitment to open source innovation and collaboration with Red Hat, and congratulations to our 2025 award winners!
关于作者
Garret Goldstein is Red Hat's Vice President for North American Public Sector Partner Ecosystems. Garret is a business and technology executive who specializes in partner ecosystem strategies that help software companies grow revenue and deliver innovation to customers. Garret has 30 years of global IT market experience, across multiple industry verticals. His career has evolved from IT practitioner to IT delivery management to software sales and partnership development to business executive. Garret is experienced in building and leading teams to develop and grow partner ecosystems and partner go-to-market strategies, in both Public Sector and Commercial.
Prior to joining Red Hat, Garret spent 5 years building Appian’s US Public Sector partner ecosystem from the ground up. Prior to Appian, Garret was with CA Technologies for 12 years with a variety of roles, including a leadership position in professional services, selling directly to aerospace and defense companies, building and owning partnerships, and leading the North American Public Sector ecosystem business. Prior to CA Technologies, Garret worked across industries, including a global leadership position at France Telecom, large project and program delivery at Freddie Mac, Columbia Energy as well as a small Federal System Integrator. Finally, Garret started his career as a technologist working on data analytics and software development technologies.
