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Ball Acquires Engineering Cyber Firm Wavefront Technologies

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, February 1st, 2016

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Ball Acquires Engineering Cyber Firm Wavefront Technologies

Rob Strain, president of Ball Aerospace & Technologies. Photo: Ball

Ball Corp.’s [BLL] aerospace business on Friday said it has acquired the engineering cyber firm Wavefront Technologies in a deal that diversifies its business portfolio.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Wavefront is headquartered in Maryland near the National Security Agency and has more than 100 systems engineers, software engineers and analysts with security clearances.Wavefront has expertise in mission operations, deployment and sustainment, network engineering and security, system engineering and software development, analytics, cyber operations, and project management.Ball Aerospace &…

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