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Category: M&A Activity

FireEye Announces $400M Blackstone-Led Strategic Investment, Buys Respond Software in $186M Cash-and-Stock DealM&A Activity

FireEye Announces $400M Blackstone-Led Strategic Investment, Buys Respond Software in $186M Cash-and-Stock Deal

FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE) announced that it will receive a strategic investment worth $400M from investment firm Blackstone and venture capital…
Voyager to Buy The Launch Company in ‘NewSpace’ Portfolio Expansion PushM&A Activity

Voyager to Buy The Launch Company in ‘NewSpace’ Portfolio Expansion Push

Voyager Space Holdings intends to acquire Anchorage, Alaska-based ground support hardware developer The Launch Company for an undisclosed sum in…
Belcan Buys Software Engineering Firm Avista; Lance Kwasniewski QuotedM&A Activity

Belcan Buys Software Engineering Firm Avista; Lance Kwasniewski Quoted

Belcan, a portfolio company of private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, has purchased aerospace and defense software engineering services provider…
American Institutes for Research Buys Kimetrica; David Myers QuotedM&A Activity

American Institutes for Research Buys Kimetrica; David Myers Quoted

The American Institutes for Research has acquired consulting firm Kimetrica for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand research…
McKinsey & Co.’s Eric Chewning, Frank Coleman: Defense Companies Should Take Programmatic Approach to M&AM&A Activity

McKinsey & Co.’s Eric Chewning, Frank Coleman: Defense Companies Should Take Programmatic Approach to M&A

Eric Chewning and Frank Coleman, partners at McKinsey & Co., wrote in a commentary published Monday on Defense News that…
McKean Defense to Buy Mikros Systems; Joseph Carlini QuotedM&A Activity

McKean Defense to Buy Mikros Systems; Joseph Carlini Quoted

McKean Defense Group has agreed to acquire technology company Mikros Systems for $0.13 per share or approximately $4.6M in cash as part of…
Palo Alto Networks Strikes $800M Deal for Expanse; Nikesh Arora QuotedM&A Activity

Palo Alto Networks Strikes $800M Deal for Expanse; Nikesh Arora Quoted

Santa Clara, California-based Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) has agreed to acquire attack surface management company Expanse for approximately $800M as part of…
Raytheon Technologies to Buy Smallsat Maker Blue Canyon; Roy Azevedo QuotedM&A Activity

Raytheon Technologies to Buy Smallsat Maker Blue Canyon; Roy Azevedo Quoted

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has agreed to acquire small satellites provider Blue Canyon Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of…
DoD Delegates Policy Leadership Responsibilities to Anthony TataM&A Activity

DoD Delegates Policy Leadership Responsibilities to Anthony Tata

Christopher Miller, acting secretary of the Department of Defense, has designated senior adviser Anthony Tata as the new senior official…
Pacific Defense Seeks to Grow Military Tech Offerings Through Spear Research BuyM&A Activity

Pacific Defense Seeks to Grow Military Tech Offerings Through Spear Research Buy

Electromagnetic spectrum technology maker Pacific Defense has acquired Nashua, New Hampshire-based Spear Research for an undisclosed sum as part of…