{"id":951,"date":"2004-09-13T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=951"},"modified":"2004-09-13T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T18:22:00","slug":"and-thats-how-the-company-changes-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"And That&#8217;s How The Company Changes Hands&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-bae13sep13,1,4236737.story?coll=la-headlines-business\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> <font size=\"-2\">(registration required)<\/font>, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnet.com\/\">DigitalNet<\/a> is being acquired by BAE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAE Systems, Europe&#8217;s largest defense company, confirmed Sunday that it had agreed to acquire DigitalNet Holdings Inc. for $494.4 million to expand sales in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My history with this company goes back to almost when I started at my current employer. You see, Honeywell Federal had this project, which we called &#8220;Son of SCOMP&#8221; (the first A1 system), which was the XTS-200 (targeted at B3).&nbsp; I was one of the evaluators on this. Later, Honeywell Federal was spun off and became HFSI (I spent weeks doing testing at their office in McLean VA; ask me the story of the 10lb chocolate bar). HFSI became Wang Federal. Wang Federal became Getronics Government. Getronics Government became DigitalNet. And now DigitalNet&#8230; Meanwhile, the XTS-200 became the -300 (on commodity hardware), then the -400, and I think the current version is the -500&#8230; still high assurance!<\/p>\n<p>As they sang in <i>Tenderloin<\/i>, <i>&#8230;and that&#8217;s how the company changes hands&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the Los Angeles Times (registration required), DigitalNet is being acquired by BAE: BAE Systems, Europe&#8217;s largest defense company, confirmed Sunday that it had agreed to acquire DigitalNet Holdings Inc. for $494.4 million to expand sales in the United States. My history with this company goes back to almost when I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=951\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,1],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-lj-xfer","tag-corporate-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}