Parsons on Monday evening said it has acquired OGSystems, giving it new capabilities in geospatial intelligence, insider threat detection, counter-intelligence, data analytics and engineering, and adds new federal customers.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OGSystems has about 400 employees and Parsons’ federal business, with the new acquisition, now has 6,000 employees, Carey Smith, chief operating officer of Parsons, told Defense Daily in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

OGSystems’ PeARL family of sensors can be tailored to provide high-resolution imagery in operational environments. Photo: Parsons

OGSystems’ senior management will remain with the company. Parsons Federal and OGSystems are based in Northern Virginia.

Parsons is engineering and construction, defense and security firm, with more than $3.4 billion in annual sales. Smith said more than half of the revenue comes from its federal security business, excluding the revenue that will come from OGSystems.

Smith said Parsons also gains some additional cloud capabilities from OGSystems to complement existing capabilities and a rapid engineering and development capability that OGSystems calls Immersive Engineering. Garret Pagon, CEO and co-founder of OGSystems, said during the interview that Immersive Engineering allows his company to go from blueprints to a capability quickly, “disrupting the status quo.”

Smith also said that OGSystems’ key customers with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, and Special Operations Command, are new for Parsons Federal. Parson Federal has key customs with the FBI, Maryland Procurement Office, classified civilian and defense intelligence agencies, U.S. Cyber Command, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the military services, she said.

The complementary customer sets will give Parsons Federal an opportunity to sell its existing products and services into new customers and the same with OGSystems, Smith said.

OGSystems also has developed a family of hardware solutions that includes the Performance Enhanced Airborne Reconnaissance Low (PeARL) sensors that combines customizable camera and optic lens technologies for high-resolution aerial imagery. Parsons said that PeARL can be combined with its software solutions to create high-resolution two and three-dimensional imagery.

OGSystems was a portfolio company of the private equity firm General Catalyst Partners. OGSystems advisers on the deal were Baird, Ropes & Gray, and Miles & Stockbridge, and Parsons was advised by Goldman Sachs & Co., and Latham & Watkins.

The OGS acquisition was the third by Parsons in the past 14 months. Earlier this year it acquired Polaris Alpha to expand its mission solutions capabilities and in fall 2017 it bought Williams Electric, which specializes in system integration for operational technology, electrical and general contracting, and energy infrastructure. Military bases are a key customer for Williams and the Defense Department is focused on resilience of its domestic and international bases and installations, a Parsons spokesman said.

The Williams’ deal fits well with Parson’s core capabilities in designing and building facilities and the need to design security in at the beginning, the spokesman said.