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NewSpring continues to build Bcore

The private equity firm has supported Bcore in closing three acquisitions over less than a year.

  • By Nick Wakeman

CASE acquires intelligence-focused cloud services provider

CyberKinetics opened for business in 2008 and works with clients who have strict compliance mandates.

  • By Ross Wilkers

TaxBit secures investment from In-Q-Tel

The intelligence community’s venture investment arm sees potential use cases in government for the company's finance-focused compliance software.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Special Aerospace Services closes first PE-backed acquisition

Godspeed Capital Management is working to build out SAS as a larger player in space and missile defense.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Deloitte acquires public health research firm

The Gryphon Scientific team uses artificial intelligence in their efforts to help agencies detect and respond to infectious diseases, among other biological and chemical threats.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Cedar Solutions builds tech portfolio with Omnyon acquisition

Omnyon joins several other businesses that Cedar has acquired over the years to create a "family" of IT services and software companies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

VTG seeks greater Air Force presence via acquisition

This buy represents VTG's first acquisition since the company itself was acquired by Alvarez & Marshal Capital Partners in the fall of 2023.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Private equity drives high transaction volume in 2023

The steady pace of acquisitions continues as more private equity firms make their foray into the government market.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Barbaricum acquires airborne intelligence provider

Barbaricum is looking to offer defense and intelligence agencies a wider portfolio of services to help operators work with their data.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Sigma Defense acquires electronic warfare tech specialist

Sigma Defense is using this purchase and the others before it to position for opportunities across JADC2: the U.S. military's effort to connect every deployed soldier and system.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Godspeed acquires spaceflight engineering company

Special Aerospace Services opened for business in 2007 and now becomes the private equity firm's vehicle for further investments in the government market's space vertical.

  • By Ross Wilkers

With Apollo's investment, SMX looks to change the tech implementation model

OceanSound Partners continues as the lead partner in SMX's next phase of its strategy, which will lean more into a tech-intensive approach as one of the world's investment stalwarts is now involved too.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Bernhard Capital Partners adds another Energy-focused contractor

The private equity firm now owns three companies focused on providing technical and other professional services to the Energy Department and its components.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Bowman enters government market via acquisition

Surdex will bring to Bowman a line of business in digital orthoimagery, a technique that combines aerial photos with a map's geometric qualities.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Accenture's federal arm to acquire Cognosante

Accenture Federal Services is also creating a new health portfolio through this addition of 1,500 people to its team.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Bluestone forms partnership with ECS vets to find acquisition targets

Bluestone Investment Partners is joining forces with former ECS Federal executives George Wilson and Tom Weston to look for a company to buy and then build.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Noblis' venture arm backs digital twin specialist

Sedaro is working with Space Force on how to use these replications of the physical world in the design of spacecraft.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Washington Harbour invests in software engineering startup

Founded in 2018, Raft will put this new capital toward the research and development of new products for the digital battlefield.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Software-defined radio maker gets Blue Delta's backing

Herrick Technology Laboratories will use this investment to accelerate the development of a new product line and make acquisitions in augmenting tech areas.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Epiq Solutions buys software-defined radio firm

Epiq is using this acquisition to deepen its portfolio of software-defined radio products for defense and intelligence agencies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

RealmOne adds another software development business

RealmOne and its backers Enlightenment Capital are working to build a larger, midsized technology integrator for the intelligence community.

  • By Ross Wilkers