Bcore CEO Chad Kim embraces the challenge of dealing with internal change. But it’s also the thing that keeps him up at night as he leads a company that spent the last two years integrating four companies into one cohesive end-to-end national security solutions provider.
Two years ago, solutions provider Bcore began a journey that would culminate in integrating four companies — Bridge Core, GeoYeti, teKnoluxion and 2 Twelve Solutions to focus on critical missions around the world.
Today, the companies are fully integrated, and Bcore has launched a marketing campaign to redefine its brand and highlight its strengthened capabilities.
“Each company was best-in-class in their domains,” Kim said. “Each had incredible talent, proven track records, and their clients loved them.”
The challenge of integration didn’t happen overnight. Instead, the companies slowly moved from operating as four separate entities to working with team cohesion as a comprehensive national security solutions provider that delivers end-to-end services for mission outcomes.
“We’ve moved from being vendors of services to being architects of American advantage,” Kim said.
Integrating people requires a bespoke approach, he said. It takes intentionality around preserving what made each legacy unit special, not rip and replace integration.
“It’s fulfilling and exciting when you see team members start discovering each other’s capabilities and create solutions like none of us could have even imagined two years ago,” he said.
Transformation That Builds Advantage
So, what problems can Bcore solve now versus before the integration? The transformation, Kim said, has been astounding.
“Two years ago, each company solved little pieces of a very complex puzzle,” he said. “Now, we have the capabilities to solve for the entire mission ecosystem. We can walk into a client meeting and provide everything from multi-analysis to AI modeling, secure cloud and rapid prototyping within their ecosystem. But, more importantly, we have the end users of these capabilities embedded within our company.”
That’s a differentiator because it means they’re not just building tools for kicks. They have practitioners testing solutions daily. The result? When speed matters most, the team can deliver higher quality solutions faster. They get there by eliminating the noise.
“It’s exciting,” Kim said. “Since January 2024, we’ve grown 25% organically. But size isn’t the story. It’s just the momentum. When you deliver outcomes at the speed clients need, and when you have an integrated capability set that just can’t be replicated elsewhere, growth becomes inevitable.”
An Evolved Approach
Today, Bcore operates across the National Capital Region and also in St. Louis, Colorado, Ohio, Florida and other locations.
Bcore rapidly expanded its data science and AI/ML teams, evolving from a purely technical company to one that also consumes and applies these mission technologies. It strengthened its multi-analytic capabilities from an end-user perspective, supported by data science, AI/ML and software development expertise.
Through deskside support, Bcore has targeting specialists alongside cloud engineers, system administrators and others to enable operations and maintain capabilities in support of the mission. Today, Kim said, Bcore remains firmly committed to national security clients in the Defense Department and intelligence community.
“Our approach has evolved,” he said. “We serve clients who need help solving some extremely complex and difficult problems. That’s part of our DNA. Before the integration, we might have solved one piece of a very complex challenge. Now, we have become a true mission partner supporting the end-to-end.”
And that, he said, is how government is likely to want vendors as partners in 2025 and beyond.
Looking Ahead
Over the next year, Kim and his team remain focused on executing their current strategy, which includes investing in their talent by building new career paths and ensuring every team member can see their future at Bcore.
“When we get this right — and we will — the impact of national security will just exponentially expand,” Kim said. “Happy, engaged, empowered, technically excellent people who understand mission create breakthroughs. That’s always been our formula.”
The team’s cohesiveness is obvious. At a recent client pitch for a multi-oriented solution, Kim watched as team members from previously disparate brands meshed together.
“They were finishing each other’s sentences,” he said. “They built the solution together, and they were able to pivot seamlessly between geospatial analysis to hardware to software et cetera, and the client just stopped mid-presentation and said, ‘This is exactly what we need — not five vendors handling handoffs but a team that gets it and can provide end-to-end solutions.”
“That’s when I knew that we’re not just building a platform,” Kim added. “We’re truly focused on building an integrated company.”
Like others in the industry, Bcore is riding the wave of rapid transformation while staying attuned to the possibility of bringing in more likeminded partners looking to create an ecosystem that supports all team members while pushing the envelope to win work that is challenging and exciting.
About Bcore
Bcore is a platform company backed by NewSpring Holdings, engineered to deliver decisive advantages for national security missions. Operating across the National Capital Region and strategic locations nationwide, Bcore combines human insight, rapid engineering and precision-measured outcomes into mission-ready solutions, leaders said.
Kim said the company’s integrated approach unites three core capabilities: Labs that prototype and field advanced technology; insight teams that transform data into actionable intelligence; and mission services that scale solutions across the enterprise. This architecture, he said, enables Bcore to deliver complete mission solutions at the speed of relevance.