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Business/Financial

BlueHalo Acquires Small Firm Serving Intelligence Community

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

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BlueHalo Acquires Small Firm Serving Intelligence Community

Jonathan Moneymaker, CEO of BlueHalo. Photo: BlueHalo

BlueHalo on Tuesday said it has acquired Asymmetrik, a small software and technology company that provides open-source intelligence (OSINT) technologies serving the intelligence community and other national security customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. BlueHalo is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners. Asymmetrik, which is based in Annapolis Junction, Md., has more than 120 employees and has core capabilities in OSINT, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cryptocurrency, block chain analytics, real-time streaming analytics,…

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