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AE Industrial Partners Invests In Company Serving Intelligence Community

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, November 1st, 2021

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AE Industrial Partners Invests In Company Serving Intelligence Community

Nicholas Harscher, president and CEO of Fire Team Solutions. LinkedIn photo.

The private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) on Monday said it has made “a significant equity and debt investment” in Fire Team Solutions, which provides technology services to the intelligence community and Defense Department. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and AEI declined to answer any questions about the deal beyond what was in its press release. Fire Team, which is based in Northern Virginia and is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business, provides secure cloud architecture and analytics,…

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