Henry Albers, a Vice President at Arlington, said, “Base2 and Fortego have highly complementary technical capabilities and a shared commitment to attracting and retaining talent. We are excited to stay on and join a like-minded organization that can help us achieve our aspirations with greater impact,” stated Base2 co-founders, Edward Wright and Michael Curry. In BlueHalo, we saw a larger version of ourselves. They understand the mission, and the importance of making the mission happen. BlueHalo resonated with us because they focus on solving the hardest engineering problems while contributing to national defense imperatives. “We reached a point where it was time to consider being part of a larger organization that could help our company grow long-term.

BlueHalo is leading the transformation of modern warfare and the acquisitions of Base2 and Fortego enhance our ability to deliver on this vision and accelerate our ability to grow organically into new mission areas.” “The strong cultural alignment between our organizations around driving inspired engineering of complex solutions for our customers and our mission focus and unique access to specialized programs attracts the best of the best to the team.

“We are thrilled to partner with the management teams at both Base2 and Fortego,” said Jonathan Moneymaker, CEO of BlueHalo. We are thrilled to join forces with the BlueHalo family to help lead the transformation of modern warfare.” Combining with BlueHalo, who also believes in the importance of an employee and mission focused culture, was a natural fit as we lead Fortego into the next phase of its evolution. “As long-time investors in these markets, we have followed each company’s success closely and are excited to now be able to bring them together with BlueHalo to accelerate their exceptional growth potential.”Ĭhad Price and Eric Rothenberger, co-founders of Fortego, explained, “Fortego’s culture of People, Family, Mission is paramount to our success in helping our customers achieve impactful and lasting outcomes in their Cyber & SIGINT Operations missions.

“Base2 and Fortego are highly differentiated companies that will establish BlueHalo as a leading provider of cutting-edge cyber and SIGINT solutions to the most demanding national security customers,” said David Wodlinger, a Partner at Arlington Capital Partners. BlueHalo expects to end 2020 with over $250 million in revenue and nearly 900 employees located across 11 states that are strategically positioned near major Intelligence and DoD organizations. The Company now has advanced cyber capabilities covering strategic level network operations all the way to the tactical cyber domains of space, air, ground, and sea. Together, the acquisitions of Base2 and Fortego add a critical mass of highly talented and credentialed cyber and SIGINT employees to BlueHalo, franchise prime contracts that provide some of the most sophisticated cyber solutions in the world, and customer access that significantly enhances the Company’s presence in the cyber and intelligence markets.

BlueHalo’s accelerated growth strategy will capitalize on three new state-of-the-art operational facilities with a fourth under construction, and drive additional investments to increase growth in Base2 and Fortego’s core markets, as well as to expand BlueHalo’s cyber and SIGINT offerings across its portfolio of solutions addressing manned and unmanned aircraft, missile defense, and space assets on orbit.īlueHalo is a rapidly expanding national security platform with capabilities spanning space superiority, directed energy, missile defense, C4ISR, cyber, and intelligence. The two companies have highly complementary capabilities that, together with BlueHalo, will enable the Company to address the most complex cyber programs in the national security community. Fortego has proven capabilities in advanced SIGINT and cyber operations solutions, with end-to-end solutions in cyber analytics, vulnerability research, and CNO engineering. Base2 specializes in the design and development of cutting-edge cyber solutions across the domains of Computer Network Operations (“CNO”), Signals Intelligence (“SIGINT”), and Quick Reaction Capability (“QRC”). WASHINGTON-( BUSINESS WIRE)- Arlington Capital Partners today announced that its portfolio company, BlueHalo, a leading provider of advanced engineering solutions and technology to the national security community, has completed the acquisitions of Base2 LLC and Fortego LLC.īoth Base2 and Fortego are Maryland-based leading providers of complex, mission-critical cyber and SIGINT solutions that serve the most demanding missions in national security.

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