{"id":50926,"date":"2024-07-17T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kbr-acquires-linquest-to-enhance-its-space-and-defense-solutions\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:18:07","slug":"kbr-acquires-linquest-to-enhance-its-space-and-defense-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kbr-acquires-linquest-to-enhance-its-space-and-defense-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"KBR Acquires LinQuest to Enhance its Space and Defense Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>KBR<\/strong>, a provider of science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies is acquiring <strong>LinQuest<\/strong>, a national security space systems and technology solutions company. KBR announced the $737 million all-cash transaction on July 16. KBR acquires LinQuest from&nbsp;<strong>Madison Dearborn Partners<\/strong> (MDP), a private equity firm based on Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to be completed later this year, pending regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>LinQuest focuses on advanced analytics, engineering, technology development, and operational solutions in space and other mission critical domains. The company aims to be a pioneer in digital mission integration for next-generation systems and capabilities. It has secured more than $850 million in contract awards over the past year. More than over 74% of LinQuest\u2019s employees hold security clearances, which KBR said will strengthen its support for U.S. government clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not be more proud of our incredible team and partnership with MDP. We are excited about joining KBR and believe our future home\u2019s expansive network and government technology expertise will further accelerate our strong momentum across our core markets and enable our defense and intelligence community customers to achieve their missions and safeguard our country,\u201d Greg Young, LinQuest resident and CEO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KBR, a provider of science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies is acquiring LinQuest, a national security space systems and technology solutions company. KBR announced the $737 million all-cash transaction on July 16. KBR acquires LinQuest from&nbsp;Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), a private equity firm based on Chicago. The deal is expected to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}