BlueHalo Acquires IAI: Executive Insight


"IAI has spent the last three decades building a premier platform focused on bringing innovation to market. With nearly one-third of their workforce having PhDs, IAI has an incredibly deep bench of world-class scientists, developers, and engineers, and we at BlueHalo could not be more excited to partner with the IAI management team as we continue to expand our capabilities across areas critical to national security. Encapsulating BlueHalo's mission areas with IAI's world-class multi-domain artificial intelligence/machine learning -based technologies will accelerate and enhance BlueHalo's trajectory while creating a repeatable, sustainable engine of innovation."
"From the outset, the alignment of cultures has been clear between our two businesses. Collectively we are a culture of inspired engineering seeking to solve some of the nation's most challenging problems. Joining forces with BlueHalo provides IAI the opportunity to not only continue its tradition of innovation, but work on a much broader set of problems and challenges. The entire IAI team and I are incredibly excited about this partnership and for the opportunities for innovation, accelerated growth, and product development that lie ahead of us."
"We are proud to partner with the IAI management team to continue building upon the strong foundation that they have established based on deep customer intimacy, highly technical research and development capabilities, and an extensive portfolio of proprietary products. We believe that IAI is a great fit for BlueHalo as one of our core capabilities as a company is utilizing our resources, whether they be laboratories, facilities, technical reach-back, systems and processes, or intellectual property to enhance and mature promising next-generation solutions into capabilities and products to address some of the most technically demanding challenges facing the national security community."