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Accenture Federal To Acquire Analytics Company Novetta

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021

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Accenture Federal To Acquire Analytics Company Novetta

Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta. Photo: Novetta

Accenture Federal Services on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire Novetta, adding work in the national security sector boosting its capabilities in advance analytics, cybersecurity and cloud engineering. Terms of the deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, were not disclosed. Novetta is a portfolio company of the investment firm The Carlyle Group. Novetta, which is based in Northern Virginia, has 1,300 employees with expertise in software development, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cyber, cloud and information…

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