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WT 360: Is employee ownership right for your company?

David Blauzvern, a managing director and ESOP specialist at CSG Partners, lays out some answers to that question and what employee stock ownership plans can offer government contractors for their next phases.

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Lentech's employees now own all of the company

The 24-year-old company is adopting the employee stock ownership plan to position itself as an employer-of-choice and achieve longer-term sustainability.

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One 23 Group acquires mission, enterprise IT provider

The One 23 Group launched in 2023 with the backing of private equity firm Willow Creek Partners.

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Cryptic Vector acquires cyber research specialist

This transaction comes almost exactly one year after Enlightenment Capital invested in Cryptic Vector.

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Advent creates defense photonics business in $400M acquisition

The private equity group is forming a standalone company through this carve-out transaction with Coherent Corp.

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Woven Solutions gets private equity backing

The three-year-old company develops cloud-native applications to help agencies in their IT modernization and enterprise tech deployment efforts.

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V2X to acquire QinetiQ's US data, services business

This 70-employee unit provides data engineering, intelligence mission support and cyber solutions to national security agencies.

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Software holding company acquires Monster's public sector business

Monster Government Solutions gets a new owner following a bankruptcy process undertaken by its former parent company.

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Firefly captures $868M in IPO proceeds

This is the second space-focused initial public offering in as many months with both exceeding original expectations on the proceed and valuation fronts.

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Intuitive Machines to acquire navigation software provider for $30M

The space exploration company is bringing in-house one of its partners, which has supported two flights to the moon.

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Special Aerospace Services unveils new name, identity

The space- and missile defense-focused company employs 250 people that work on systems and technologies for emerging priorities, of which the Golden Dome initiative is one.

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Piper Sandler to acquire G Squared Capital Partners

Minneapolis-headquartered Piper Sandler views the GovCon landscape as a path for expanding its technology investment banking practice.

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Palo Alto seeks identity security growth in $25B CyberArk acquisition

Palo Alto sees the increasing use of artificial intelligence as driving demand for cybersecurity platforms that span network and identity security.

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Dropzone AI closes $37M Series B round

In-Q-Tel is continuing its backing of the two-year-old startup, which is pushing an approach of blending agentic artificial intelligence functions and cyber.

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Firefly sets the size, specs of its public offering

Like with Voyager Technologies and its IPO, Firefly is looking to ride a wave of investor interest in space amid expectations of spending increases.

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SES closes $3.1B acquisition of Intelsat

The completion of the move also brings a new CEO for the government business, who is staying with the organization after being in the same role for Intelsat.

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GovCIO to acquire Iron Bow's telehealth subsidiary

GovCIO will inherit a $1.4 billion Veterans Affairs Department contract and has plans for further software and artificial intelligence investments in that program.

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Rune Technologies fetches $24M in Series A capital

The company emerged out of stealth mode only months ago and is pushing the development of its operating system for military logistics operators.

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Noblis' venture arm backs generative AI company

The nonprofit firm’s vehicle for investing in startups takes it to a company that works with organizations on adopting artificial intelligence and stay within their security and regulatory guardrails.

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York adds software, antenna offerings via acquisition

The small satellite maker moves to further round out its portfolio as the Defense Department pursues its Golden Dome missile defense vision.