Arlington, Virginia-based Second Front Systems closes a seed funding round from investors to support the continued development of its flagship platform used by government agencies to search for commercially-available technologies.
Financial data intelligence firm Sayari Labs gets additional capital in a fundraising round that brought the intelligence community’s venture capital arm on board as a new backer.
Maxar Technologies’ move to take full ownership a data and analytics-focused joint venture once held with Saab comes during a pivotal period for the acquirer, which views this deal as key to the future of Earth intelligence.
A new government services company led by former Engility CEO Tony Smeraglinolo buys the international development portfolio of Science Applications International Corp.
The Carlyle Group has re-acquired a firm it owned over a decade ago and a second private equity backed firm has made a divestiture to improve its market focus.
The coronavirus has slowed down the closing of mergers and acquisitions in the government market but other considerations are also coming to mind for buyers and sellers.
Maxar Technologies is acquiring the remainder of a joint venture held with Saab and sees this deal as meeting customer demand for a lot of data about the Earth as soon as it can be taken in.
Credit analysts at Moody's Investors Service view the last decade's mergers and acquisitions as helping build a more resilient group of companies, but they are looking at other factors as ones to shape the market amid the pandemic's pressure on deal activity.
AE Industrial Partners details its second deal in less than a month by acquiring majority ownership of a nearly two-decade old government technology services company.
Lockheed Martin Ventures has made a pair of investments that highlight the company's interest in quantum computing and cutting edge training technology.
A frequent acquirer, SOS International has this time taken a non-controlling interest in a firm to gain the right to provide a speech recognition and language translation product line to government agencies.
Rarely do activist investors make their way into the government market, but Jana Partners has done so for a third time with its newly-disclosed stake in Perspecta.
