Godspeed Capital Partners with Special Aerospace Services to Form Space, Hypersonics and Missile Defense Platform

Special Aerospace Services (SAS) Acquires Concordia Technologies

October 28, 2024

Aerospace & Defense

Special Aerospace Services (SAS), a Godspeed Capital-backed platform, has acquired Huntsville-based Concordia Technologies, a specialist in missile and hypersonic weapons defense, sensor design, and modeling & simulation. The deal — which closed October 24, 2024 — strengthens SAS's hypersonics and missile defense capabilities and expands its national security space engineering and mission-support offerings.

Special Aerospace Services (Godspeed-backed) Acquires Willbrook Solutions

April 30, 2024

Aerospace & Defense

Godspeed Capital-backed Special Aerospace Services (SAS) has acquired Willbrook Solutions, a Huntsville-based analytical solutions provider to the Missile Defense Agency, DIA, NASA and the DoD. The add-on expands SAS’s space engineering and missile defense capabilities, bringing Willbrook’s ~75 cleared engineering and analytics professionals into the SAS platform to support missile defense, modeling & simulation, telemetry and related programs.

Special Aerospace Services (Godspeed) Acquires Quintron Systems

May 14, 2024

Aerospace & Defense

Special Aerospace Services (SAS), the space engineering and defense technology platform backed by Godspeed Capital, has acquired Quintron Systems from Fernandez Holdings. The add-on expands SAS' capabilities in secure communications, network and AV systems for NASA, Department of Defense, commercial space and other government customers; Quintron president Dominick Barry will become SAS COO.

Godspeed Capital Acquires Exceptional Software Strategies, Inc.

January 13, 2022

Cybersecurity

Godspeed Capital Management LP, a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on defense and government technology, has acquired Exceptional Software Strategies, Inc. (ESS), a Linthicum Heights, Maryland-based provider of cybersecurity, software and systems engineering solutions to the U.S. Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. ESS will join Godspeed's newly formed cyber and technology solutions platform to expand capabilities, invest in technology and scale services for mission-oriented federal agencies; financial terms were not disclosed.

Godspeed Capital-Backed Crimson Phoenix Acquires Cyberspace Solutions

January 8, 2024

Government & Public Sector

Godspeed Capital’s intelligence platform Crimson Phoenix has acquired Cyberspace Solutions LLC (CSS), adding prime contracts and long-standing customer relationships with U.S. Special Operations Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The deal integrates CSS’ cleared workforce into Crimson Phoenix and names industry finance executive Scott Crane as platform CFO to support continued growth of the PE-backed intelligence solutions platform.

Godspeed Capital Makes Strategic Investment in BNP Associates

September 25, 2024

Engineering Services

Godspeed Capital Management has made a strategic investment in BNP Associates, a Denver-based air transportation design and engineering firm. Godspeed will partner with BNP's leadership to establish BNP as the platform for a new aviation-focused design and engineering services provider and pursue organic growth and strategic acquisitions; financial terms were not disclosed.