# Sentar

> Sentar is an employee-owned U.S. cyber intelligence and engineering company serving defense, intelligence, military healthcare and commercial government suppliers. It combines mission cybersecurity services, compliance assessments, proprietary software assurance and risk-modeling technology, and applied research into operational resilience.

- **Founded:** 1990
- **Headquarters:** Huntsville, United States
- **Founders:** Peter Kiss (Co-founder; former CEO), Karen Kiss (Co-founder)
- **Products:** CodeValor, MissionValor, KnoWeb, Mission cybersecurity and systems engineering, Governance, risk and compliance
- **Notable:** Developed a Fortran scanner for a legacy missile-defense simulation; its case study reports a 20% reduction in project development timeline., Reports favorable authorization decisions for targeted pandemic-response systems in four months, versus a typical 12-18 months per system., Introduced employee ownership through an ESOP in 2025.

## Products & services

- **CodeValor** — Static software assurance scanning, including Fortran; integrates code repositories, maps findings to CWE and STIG requirements, and exports remediation reports. Previously called veriScan.
- **MissionValor** — Maps mission dependencies and predicts operational consequences of cyberattacks, including a Mission Impact Prediction Score.
- **KnoWeb** — Knowledge-based framework using fault-tolerant intelligent agents for distributed reasoning and knowledge coordination.
- **Mission cybersecurity and systems engineering** — Secure software development, cyber operations, incident response, intelligence analytics and IT/OT security for government missions.
- **Governance, risk and compliance** — CMMC assessment services and cloud security assessment and consulting for FedRAMP and GovRAMP.
- **Digital-twin cybersecurity R&D** — Research into attack prediction and zero-trust protection of communications between operational technology and its virtual models.

## Achievements

- Developed a Fortran scanner for a legacy missile-defense simulation; its case study reports a 20% reduction in project development timeline.
- Reports favorable authorization decisions for targeted pandemic-response systems in four months, versus a typical 12-18 months per system.
- Introduced employee ownership through an ESOP in 2025.
- Selected for a $278 million NIWC Pacific multiple-award contract in August 2026; task orders require competition.
- Named #5 in the large-employer category of South Carolina’s 2026 Best Places to Work, marking 11 consecutive years of recognition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced #5 large-employer ranking in South Carolina’s Best Places to Work program.
- **2026-08** — Announced NIWC Pacific multiple-award IDIQ position: $278 million initial ceiling; a two-year option could increase the vehicle to $400 million.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sentar.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentar/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sentar_cyber
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SentarInc/

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Last updated: 2026-10-02