HII’s Tech solutions seeks Fulcrum

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced Jan. 18 it has entered into an agreement to acquire Fulcrum IT Services LLC, an information technology and government consulting firm located in Centreville, Va. The planned acquisition is expected to close in February. Financial terms were not disclosed. Fulcrum will join HII’s Technical Solutions division. Fulcrum would expand HII’s capabilities in enhanced situational awareness and predictive threat analytics through the firm’s advanced engineering, cyber security, software development, big data engineering, and intelligence and special operations experience across the C5ISR domain (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), said Andy Green, president of Technical Solutions. (Source: HII 01/18/19) Gulf Coast Note: Technical Solutions provides fleet maintenance and modernization, unmanned solutions and rapid prototyping, agile software development and network engineering, training systems, logistics support, nuclear engineering and fabrication, and oil and gas engineering. TS employs more than 5,000 people across 35 states and 11 countries with mobile “fly- away” teams that can support emergent situations around the globe. One of those TS sites is located in Panama City, Fla., where they employ engineers and designers that provide rapid prototyping that also include unmanned systems.