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Booz Allen secures $74M Navy contract

McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consultant Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. won a potential $74.7 million contract with the U.S. Navy to support the Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) mission, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Friday.

Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Booz Allen Hamilton will provide a single program executive for the PEO USC that will be responsible for end-to-end acquisition and maintenance of the mission capabilities of the littoral combat ship-class — a class of small surface combatants designed for near-shore environments.

Work is expected to be completed by April 2023 and will be performed in McLean and at the Washington Navy Yard.

With $7.5 billion in fiscal 2020 revenue, Booz Allen employs more than 27,600 workers globally, with about 10,000 employed in Virginia.

Octo acquires Herndon-based B3 Group

Reston-based Octo Consulting Group, backed by Arlington Capital Partners, has acquired Herndon-based health IT company B3 Group Inc.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

B3 modernizes applications using low- or no-code software and platforms such as Microsoft Power Platform. The company also provides data governance, integration and analytics as well as cloud engineering and operations to federal health care clients.

B3’s leadership will remain with the company and expand Octo’s health business.

“We are ecstatic B3 is joining the Octo family,” Octo CEO Mehul Sanghani said in a statement. “Now with even deeper experience across the health space added to our defense, intelligence, national security and civilian customer base, Octo has greatly enhanced its position to serve as the federal government’s complete, end-to-end digital modernization partner.”

B3 has worked with the U.S. Veteran Affairs Department for 13 years. The company holds the $686 million U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Digital Transformation Center task order. In September 2019, it also won a 15-year, $59.9 million contract to provide the VA with a software-as-a-service enterprise telecommunications expense management integrated solution (eTEMS).

“Joining Octo allows us to enhance our offerings to our customers through a more robust set of solutions and provide greater career opportunities to our employees,” B3 President and CEO Dwight Hunt said in a statement. “As B3 and Octo began to collaborate, we collectively realized that our commitment to improving digital services to the VA and the broader federal health community will turbocharge the solutions we deliver to our nation’s veterans and those that support them.”

B3’s Digital Transformation and Modernization lab will add to Octo’s oLabs, a federal government research and development center housed in a 14,000-square-foot facility.

Fairfax-based software company Sevatec merged with Octo in December 2020, creating a company with 1,100 employees and nearly $300 million in annual revenue. In July 2021, Octo acquired Chantilly-based defense software development company Volant Associates.

Peraton wins $343M TSA contract

Federal contractor Peraton Inc. won an up to $342.76 million task order with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Dec. 13, 2021.

Peraton subsidiary Perspecta Enterprise Solutions LLC, acquired in May 2021, won the IT Management, Performance Analysis and Collaborative Technologies (IMPACT) II contract.

Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. won the first IMPACT contract in 2018, and Perspecta’s protest of the award was denied. Through a six-month extension, CACI will continue its work through March.

As part of the task order, Peraton’s IT support will include operating and maintaining the TSA’s IT capabilities, managing its ongoing relationships with technology providers and providing cybersecurity support.

Post-acquisition of Perspecta Inc. and Northrop Grumman’s integrated mission support and IT solution business, Peraton has more than 150 offices and 19,000 employees. In December, it announced that it would be moving its headquarters from Herndon to Reston. The company is owned by Veritas Capital, a New York-based private equity firm.

ICF acquires McLean tech contractor

Fairfax-based management consulting firm ICF International Inc. announced Monday that it had completed its acquisition of McLean-based IT federal contractor Creative Systems and Consulting.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The company announced in December 2021 that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Creative and expected to close the transaction before the end of the year.

Founded in 2010, Creative provides federal agencies with IT services including cloud and infrastructure solutions and data analytics. The company has 270 employees.

“This transaction is aligned with our strategy of pairing organic growth with select acquisitions that strengthen ICF’s position in key growth markets,” ICF Chairman, President and CEO John Wasson said in a December 2021 statement. “Creative’s expertise in cloud development considerably expands our qualifications in the federal IT modernization/digital transformation arena, and the company has delivered flagship work with many civilian agencies that have been long-standing clients of ICF

Founded in 1969, ICF has about 7,500 employees. In 2020, its gross revenue was $1.51 billion, an increase of 1.9%. In November 2021, the company acquired Rockville, Maryland-based data management and health care information technology provider ESAC Inc.

The Carlyle Group to acquire CNSI

Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group announced Thursday that affiliated funds under its management have agreed to acquire McLean-based health information technology provider CNSI.

Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in December, were not disclosed. Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners currently owns CNSI.

“We believe CNSI is well-positioned for continued success driven by its technical leadership and proven track record of innovation and execution,” Carlyle Managing Director Dayne Baird said in a statement. “CNSI operates at the unique intersection of technology, health care and government services, and we see significant growth opportunities ahead as the company leverages its unique capabilities and continues to develop market-leading solutions.”

Founded in 1994 as Client Network Services Inc., CNSI provides mission-critical systems that are aimed to better process medical claims, billing and health benefits for Medicaid, Medicare and related programs.

Todd Stottlemyer, CNSI’s CEO since 2018, will continue to lead the company. He previously partnered with Carlyle as a senior executive at BDM International Inc.

“We are delighted about this opportunity to partner with Carlyle as we continue to execute exquisitely for our clients, strengthen our market leading products and solutions, and drive innovation that improves health outcomes and lowers costs,” Stottlemyer said in a statement.

The Carlyle Group manages $293 billion of assets across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Global Investment Solutions. It has more than 1,800 employees in 26 offices across five continents. Carlyle reported $1.6 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2021, bringing its year-to-date total to $6.78 million.

Peraton to move HQ from Herndon to Reston

Federal contractor Peraton Inc. is moving its headquarters from Herndon to Reston, the company announced Thursday.

Peraton has signed a lease at 1875 Explorer St. in Reston Town Center. It expects to begin operating in the new headquarters by September 2022, after the completion of initial construction phases.

In 2021, Peraton completed both the $7.1 billion purchase of Chantilly federal IT contractor Perspecta Inc. and the $3.4 billion acquisition of Northrop Grumman Corp.’s federal IT and mission support services business, with the backing of Peraton parent company Veritas Capital, a New York-based private equity firm.

After a year of acquiring offices and employees across the U.S. and six months of integration, Peraton is ready to move forward as one company, Peraton Chairman, President and CEO Stu Shea said in a statement.

“Identifying a new headquarters that can be tailored to meet the needs and identity of the new Peraton is of paramount importance in that process,” Shea said. “With the announcement of our new Reston headquarters, we are excited to remain in Northern Virginia, close to our customers as well as a robust and diverse talent pipeline and supported by world-class resources and infrastructure.”

The headquarters will house corporate leadership, major operations for three business sectors and its Mission Capability Innovation Center, which will have physical and virtual working environments and access to Peraton Labs’ Research and Innovation Centers. Peraton will continue major operations at other locations.

In terms of how the move might affect remote work policies, Peraton said in a statement that it will continue to support remote work where it makes sense in the future.

“While we expect that employees will spend more time in the office — including our new headquarters — once we gain the upper hand responding to the COVID-19 variants, we have learned that our employees are extremely effective and responsible while working remotely,” the company said.

Post-acquisition of Perspecta Inc. and Northrop Grumman’s integrated mission support and IT solution business, Peraton has more than 150 offices and is in the middle of a multi-year review of its office footprint. The new headquarters site is the first major decision in that process, according to a news release. The company says 5,000 of its 19,000 employees are based in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

SAIC wins potential $1.11B Navy contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) won an up to $1.11 billion contract with the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense announced last week.

Under the fixed-price incentive, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee $123.68 million contract, SAIC will provide MK 48 Mod 7 heavyweight afterbody/tailcones and warshot fuel tank torpedo equipment and support. The afterbody/tailcone of a torpedo controls the torpedo’s propulsion, starts it and applies the necessary power for it to reach its target. If all options are exercised, the cumulative value of the contract would be $1.11 billion.

Work will be performed in Bedford, Indiana, and Middletown, Rhode Island, and is expected to be completed by July 2025. If all options are exercised, work will continue through January 2033.

The contract combines purchases for the Navy and the governments of Australia and Taiwan under the Foreign Military Sales program, which will provide $22.5 million of the funding.

BlueHalo acquires Md. software company

Arlington-based tech contractor BlueHalo announced Tuesday that it had acquired Annapolis Junction, Maryland-based software solutions provider Asymmetrik Ltd.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2008, Asymmetrik develops software solutions and technology tools to enable the intelligence community’s programs. It delivers open-source intelligence technologies to enable the collection and analysis of publicly available information. Asymmetrik has more than 120 employees.

“We are excited to welcome the next chapter of the Asymmetrik story under the banner of BlueHalo and provide our new and existing customers a more expansive set of tools, capabilities, and resources. … We could not have found a better partner in BlueHalo where together, we will continue to tackle the most challenging problems our customers are facing,” Asymmetrik co-founder and chief technology officer Amit Singh and co-founder and CEO Mike Frentz said in a statement.

BlueHalo is a national security platform with capabilities across space technology, advanced radio frequency, signals intelligence and cyber.

BlueHalo has made multiple acquisitions recently. In early November, BlueHalo acquired San Diego-based Citadel Defence Co., in August, it acquired Rockville, Maryland-based Intelligent Automation Inc. and in July it acquired Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Design and Development Engineering Services Corporation (DDES).

“The combination of Asymmetrik’s and BlueHalo’s deep technical capabilities, cultures of excellence and focus on the mission will only further enhance our ability to serve our customers’ most important and complex needs,” BlueHalo CEO Jonathan Moneymaker said in a statement.

BlueHalo is owned by Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm.

Northrop Grumman promotes next president of space systems sector

Tom Wilson will be promoted to corporate vice president and president of space systems for Falls Church-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. on Jan. 1.

“Tom’s leadership experience and achievements in the national security, civil and commercial space markets make him ideally suited for his new role,” Kathy Warden, Northrop Grumman’s chairman, CEO and president, said in a statement. “I am confident our space business will continue to grow and perform under Tom’s strong leadership, vision and values.”

Wilson is currently the sector vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s strategic space systems division in the space systems sector. He previously led the space systems sector strategy and business development organizations. Wilson joined Northrop Grumman in 2018 when the company acquired Dulles-based Orbital ATK Inc., which he has served since 2001.

Wilson has held leadership positions in national security, defense and civil government space businesses and has served in senior positions with the U.S. Department of Defense. He holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland.

Wilson will succeed Blake Larson, who announced his intent to retire on Feb. 4, 2022, after a 40-year career with Northrop Grumman and its prior companies. He will continue as corporate vice president, reporting to Warden to support the transition, until his retirement.

“On behalf of our company and the board of directors, I want to thank Blake for his leadership and significant contributions to our entire business, and particularly our Space portfolio,” Warden said in a statement. “His focus and vision have paved the way for the continued success of our space business, and the important customer missions we serve.”

Northrop Grumman employs roughly 97,000 people worldwide and reported $36.79 billion in 2020 revenue.

M.C. Dean secures $250M Washington HQ Services contract

Tysons-based electrical engineering firm M.C. Dean Inc. won a $250 million contract with the Washington Headquarters Services in Arlington, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Thursday.

Under the firm-fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity Pentagon Force Protection Agency Integrated Security Services Contract, M.C. Dean will provide a total system approach for providing integrated electronic and physical security systems for the Pentagon Reservation, Mark Center, Defense Health Headquarters, Department of Defense leased facilities, Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania as well as Washington County, Maryland. The contract provides baseline support — system support, maintenance repair and logistics — to security applications at the facilities.

Work will be performed at the Pentagon and the Mark Center and has an expected completion date of Dec. 16, 2026.

M.C. Dean designs, builds, operates and maintains cyber-physical solutions for government agencies as well as corporations, hospitals and biotechnology firms. The company has more than 4,500 employees