https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/a-603-million-deal-sheds-light-on-secretive-cybersecurity-space
By Crayton Harrison
Bloomberg
April 22, 2019
In a deal that puts a spotlight on the shadowy world of cyberwarfare, Jacobs
Engineering Group Inc. agreed to acquire KeyW Holding Corp. for about $603
million, increasing its number of employees with top-secret government access
by 50 percent.
While neither company is a household name, both have deep ties to Washington’s
web of cyberintelligence specialists. Jacobs, a Dallas-based engineering firm
with more than 80,000 employees, already gets about 23 percent of its $15
billion in annual revenue from the U.S. government. In the past three years,
Jacobs has acquired two other cybersecurity firms in the greater Washington
area -- Reston, Virginia-based Blue Canopy and Columbia, Maryland-based Van
Dyke Technology Group Inc.
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