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fact that Arlington Capital has built a
platform in an emerging market that is likely to grow in importance. Polar- is Alpha is focused on the domains of cybersecurity, space and electromag- netic spectrum, as well as the military’s increasing need for the kind of command and control systems that can take advan- tage of those capabilities.
Likewise, there is a need for big-data analytics, deep learning and algorithm development around autonomy. Polaris Alpha does research and development in those areas and has the capabilities to bring R&D into the operational realm.
Beyond those top three examples, our panel of experts also highlighted the fol- lowing key deals in 2016:
• KBR jumped deeper into the services business with the acquisition of Wyle for $600 million and Honeywell Tech- nology Solutions for $300 million.
• CACI International lived up to its rep- utation for making large acquisitions
BUYER
Accenture Federal Services Alatec (now Ignite) Altamira
Altamira
Apollo Global
Aptima Inc.
Arlington Capital Partners
ASRC Federal
Assured Enterprises Inc.
Attain LLC
Ball Aerospace
Battle Resource Management Inc.
Belcan
Braxton Science andTechnology Group
CACI International
CACI International
Cadmus Group Inc.
Calibre Systems
Centerra Group
Central Council ofTlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska
CenturyLink
CM Equity/Tinicum
Coalfire Systems
Cognosante
Cybraics Inc.
Day and Zimmerman Group Inc.
heat up. And in early 2017, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates agreed to pay $2.4 billion for DigitalGlobe, indicating that companies are making big bets on the importance of geospatial technology. • Roper Technologies acquired Deltek in a $2.8 billion deal. Although Deltek doesn’t directly serve the government, its accounting and project management software and its market research ser- vices are critical to many government contractors. The Roper acquisition gave Deltek a permanent home after being owned by two different private equity groups in the past decade and having a stint as a publicly traded company.
Our roundup of closed 2016 deals is provided to us by the investment bank Houlihan Lokey. Our experts are drawn from Houlihan and the invest- ment banks McLean Group, KippsDe- Santo, Stifel Nicolaus and Aronson Capital Partners and from the law firm Holland and Knight. n
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with its $550 million deal for L-3 Com- munications’ National Security Solu- tions business.
• Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls gave a significant boost to its engineering and professional services business when it acquired Camber Corp. for $380 million.
• Jacobs Engineering now has special- ized cybersecurity offerings with the acquisition of the Van Dyke Technol- ogy Group. Terms were not disclosed, but Jacobs added intelligence commu- nity customers and can take Van Dyke’s capabilities to its existing customers. • ManTech International is proving that it is back in the M&A hunt with two deals in 2016: the acquisition of Edaptive Sys- tems and the cyber business of Ocean’s Edge. Terms were not disclosed.
• DigitalGlobe’s $140 million acquisi- tion of the Radiant Group was an early sign that consolidation in the geospatial niche of the market was beginning to
TARGET
Defense Point Security
Universal Solutions Initiative Inc. APGTechnologies
Prime Solutions LLC
Constellis
Lumir Research Institute Inc.
EOIRTechnologies
Vistronix
Nova Defense and Aerospace International
ACF Solutions LLC
WavefrontTechnologies
Clearsoft
Intercom Consulting and Federal Systems
Space Ground System Solutions
L-3 Communications’ National Security Solutions Purple Secure Systems
Obsidian Analysis Inc.
FusionTechnology LLC
The Development Initiative
Kira
netAura
Systems Planning and Analysis Veris Group
Business IT Solutions
Caerus Analytics
Hankins and Anderson Inc.
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