A $603 Million Deal Sheds Light on Cybersecurity Space

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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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