The accused man, Daniel Hale, worked as a Leidos contractor for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2013-14, began communicating with the reporter in 2013 while at the NSA.

The French company hopes the acquisition will strengthen its North American presence.

Federal procurement of cybersecurity goods and services is highly fragmented, according to new research published this week, but despite this long tail of small awards, the market space is dominated by a handful of familiar names.