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Defense Watch: CACI, Thales Deals Advance, AFA Updates

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, March 1st, 2019

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Deal Updates. CACI International completed its $750 million acquisition of LGS Innovations from the private equity firms Madison Dearborn Partners and CoVant Management, giving it capabilities to rapidly add applications to fielded systems, something its customers want more of. LGS provides real-time spectrum management, C4ISR, and cyber security products and solutions to the intelligence community and Defense Department, and develops and manufactures custom lasers for remote-sensing systems. The acquisition of LGS “is the next step in our established strategy to…

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