On October 19, NexTech Solutions (NTS) announces the acquisition of Halcyon Days Consulting (HDC), a Stevensville, Maryland–based defense technology company that engineers tactical mission networks (TMNs) and operational software for the U.S. military and its allied partners. The acquisition adds more than 90 engineers, operators, and mission specialists to the NTS team and significantly strengthens the company’s ability to deliver resilient, field-proven networking capabilities to U.S. Government customers.
HDC’s tactical mission networks are actively deployed and continuously refined by U.S. allied and partner forces operating in some of the most contested environments in the world, including in support of forces on the front lines in Eastern Europe and the Pacific.
Built on the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) framework for tactical command and control, HDC’s TMNs are quickly deployable, secure, and natively TAK-integrated across every echelon. The NTS edge infrastructure portfolio complements these TMNs: NTS’ provisioning software MANTLE will accelerate the deployment of a tactical mission network, reducing the stand-up of a complete, TAK-ready environment from weeks to hours, according to the company.
This acquisition allows NTS to offer U.S. government customers a battle-hardened networking and operational software stack purpose-built for denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments. The newly combined team will accelerate delivery of tactical mission networks, operational software, cybersecurity and RMF execution, systems integration, and foreign partner enablement.
“The NTS/HDC team will move faster from mission requirement to fielded capability, and all of our customers will benefit from a combined networking stack that has been proven in the toughest possible conditions,” said HDC CEO Kyle Miracle.
“HDC has done something rare – they’ve built and continuously refined a tactical networking capability under fire, in one of the most contested environments on the planet,” said NTS CEO Joseph Paull. “Adding their team, their technology, and that hard-won operational insight to NTS gives our customers direct access to networks that have already been tested where it matters most. There is no substitute for that kind of validation.”
The addition of HDC deepens NTS’s bench in tactical networking, edge communications, and rapid capability delivery, positioning the combined team to meet growing demand from the Department of War, Department of State, and allied partners for proven, field-ready solutions.
Source: NTS
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