Systems Planning & Analysis Acquires Metron's ORCA Division
September 6, 2022
Systems Planning & Analysis, an Arlington Capital portfolio company, has acquired the Operations Research & Cyber Analysis (ORCA) unit from Metron. The deal brings ORCA's San Diego–based operations research, model-based systems engineering, and modeling & simulation capabilities into SPA's Naval, Nuclear and Critical Infrastructure sector to expand capability and customer access in naval and national security markets.
- Buyers
- Systems Planning & Analysis, Inc., Arlington Capital Partners
- Targets
- Operations Research & Cyber Analysis (ORCA) unit of Metron
- Sellers
- Metron, Inc.
- Platforms
- Systems Planning & Analysis, Inc.
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Location
- California, United States
- Transaction Type
- Addon
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