Although financial buyers can be outstanding choices for sellers of government contracting businesses, they present unique challenges when compared to the strategic buyer alternative, says John Hagan, co-head of the defense and government services group at BB&T Capital Markets/Windsor Group.
Attain LLC is less than a year old, but the professional services company already has gone through a name change and closed 20 new contracts and six follow-on awards worth a total of more than $13 million since September 2009.
Science Applications International Corp. is strengthening its cybersecurity business with the acquisition of CloudShield Technologies Inc., a cybersecurity and management solutions provider. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Xerox Corp. has completed its $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services Inc., a deal that makes Xerox one of the world’s largest business process and document management companies.
SAIC has acquired a software product line from Forterra Systems Inc. that offers users an interactive virtual environment in which to collaborate, train and learn.
ManTech International Corp.'s purchase of Sensor Technologies Inc. brings with it a prime contractor position on the Army's Strategic Services Sourcing contract program.
Contractors respond to shifting defense priorities with acquisitions, new marketing strategies and a never-ending push to get closer to their customers.
Oracle Corp. laid out its plans for integrating Sun Microsystems' software and hardware systems into its own product lineup, including the Solaris operating system, the NetBeans IDE and the MySQL database.
DynCorp International LLC has acquired Casals & Associates Inc., an international development company, through the purchase of 100 percent of the company’s stock.
