Booz Allen Invests in Data Company Shift5

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) today announced that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, LLC, has made a strategic investment in Shift5, the onboard data company. Shift5 brings order to the complexity of onboard data, providing observability, critical insights, and cybersecurity protection to the world’s most critical commercial and military fleets and weapon systems. This is the first investment by Booz Allen Ventures aligned with the firm’s National Cyber business, which uses a comprehensive view of the cyber landscape and intelligence-grade tradecraft to unlock stronger defensive solutions and deploy full-spectrum cyber capabilities with confidence, precision, and speed.

“The nation’s adversaries view the U.S. federal government, intelligence agencies, the military, and all critical infrastructure sectors as a single, target-rich environment—one cyber battlespace,” said Brad Medairy, executive vice president and leader of Booz Allen’s National Cyber business. “In this threat landscape, this investment enables us to outpace adversaries and protect U.S. strategic advantage by enhancing weapon systems readiness. Shift5 will be a key enabler of our continued delivery of superior tradecraft for cyber-physical resilience and mission readiness.”

Created by officers who stood up U.S. Army Cyber Command, Shift5 defends commercial transportation systems and military platforms against operational failures and operational technology (OT) cybersecurity risks. The Shift5 platform enables rapid decision-making for cybersecurity, maintenance, and compliance through complete data access and observability of OT, enabling organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture, reduce and avoid critical failures, and increase operational efficiencies. The company’s technology captures and analyzes real-time serial data, revealing critical operational and cybersecurity insights that enable organizations to move from data to decisions quickly and confidently.

“Since our inception, Shift5 has been laser focused on bolstering readiness and resilience for the DoD, commercial aerospace and rail,” said Josh Lospinoso, CEO and co-founder at Shift5. “Our partnership with Booz Allen will create new ways for our defense, aviation, and rail customers to analyze and action the onboard data from fleets that they’ve historically lacked access to, reducing decision latency and enabling them to stay ahead of critical cybersecurity and operational risks. Doing this allows operators to modernize legacy systems, build next-gen fleets, and improve readiness and availability of critical OT systems.”