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DOJ Urges Judge to Delay Booz Allen Acquisition of EverWatch Until NSA Awards Optimal Decision Contract
The Department of Justice urged a federal judge to delay Booz Allen Hamilton’s acquisition of signals intelligence company EverWatch to ensure meaningful competition for a $17 million NSA procurement, in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. Speaking in court in Maryland, Jay Owen, an attorney with DOJ’s Antitrust Division argued: “Their merger agreement removes the incentive to compete, which is likely to lead to anticompetitive effects such as increased price or reduced quality.”