Titan buys Intelligence Data Systems

Titan Corp. has acquired Intelligence Data Systems Inc. for $42.5 million, a move that strengthens its position among intelligence agencies.

Analex acquisition of ComGlobal Systems is done

Analex Corp. has completed its acquisition of ComGlobal Systems Inc. in a $47 million cash deal.

General Dynamics acquires Maya Viz Ltd.

Maya Viz Ltd. develops enhanced visualization and collaboration technologies that support real-time decision making, officials from General Dynamics said.

Ready and cable

With the telecommunications industry rapidly consolidating, cable television companies are starting to see opportunities to grab business in the federal market.

'Engage Industry'

The General Services Administration's plan to reorganize the Federal Technology and Federal Supply services must go beyond the superficial merging of two organizations and improve the organization's overall value to agencies and industry, federal and private sector officials said.

Lockheed closes Sytex deal

Lockheed Martin Corp. finished its acquisition Thursday of IT services company the Sytex Group Inc. for $440 million in cash.

Alion makes another deal

Alion Science and Technology Corp. of McLean, Va., makes its fourth acquisition since October with its plan to buy John J. McMullen Associates.

Serco finishes RCI buy

Serco Group plc has completed it acquisition of RCI Holding Corp., doubling the size of its North America operations.

Northrop Grumman finishes Integic buy

The two Top 100 companies announced in February Northrop's definitive agreement to buy privately held Integic.

Infotech and the Law: Share-in-savings IT contracting: It's not happening

Two years ago, Congress gave a new IT contracting vehicle a boost by including it in the E-Government Act of 2002. Share-in-savings contracts were supposed to revolutionize government IT procurements by unleashing contractor creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

Founders bought out at Datatel

Datatel Inc.'s executive team signs an agreement to acquire the company from its founders.

M&A Roundup

BAE Systems North America Inc. has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire United Defense Industries Inc. of Arlington, Va., for $4.2 billion, company officials said.

ACS to acquire Mellon Financial's HR business

Affiliated Computer Services Inc. is buying the human resources consulting and outsourcing business of the Mellon Financial Corp. for $445 million.

DRS sells off two units to focus on defense business

DRS Technologies Inc. is divesting its broadcast and weather system divisions as part of a strategy to concentrate on its core defense technology business.

BAE Unit to buy UDI

BAE Systems North America Inc. will acquire United Defense Industries Inc. for $4.2 billion.

Rejoice: Metis lives

What is to become of Metis, the popular modeling tool from Computas Technology Inc., now that Austin, Texas-based Troux Technologies Inc. has snapped it up? Agencies, including the Commerce, Defense, Health and Human Services and Treasury departments, use Computas' Metis software to map enterprise architectures.

ITS jumps into M&A game

Thomas Sundling has been on both sides of deal making. As an executive at GTE Corp., he experienced that company's acquisition by General Dynamics Corp. While at GD, he helped engineer several deals ? including the blockbuster $1.5 billion acquisition of Veridian Corp. ? to help that company grow its IT business.

MTC acquires German division

MTC Technologies Inc. acquires the German operations of Eagle Support Services.

Science Dynamics buys Systems Management Engineering

Science Dynamics Corp., a developer of Internet protocol technology, has acquired an 82 percent equity interest in Systems Management Engineering Inc.

Lockheed closes Stasys deal

Lockheed Martin Corp. has completed its acquisition of Stasys Ltd., a U.K. technology and consulting firm that specializes in network communications and defense interoperability.