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### Ford Aerospace and the Carlyle Buyout
The 1995 prospectus states that the predecessor company "was a public company from 1980 until 1988, when [[Ford Aerospace]], then a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Ford Motor Company]], acquired all of the outstanding stock."[^1] In October 1990, "on behalf of certain investors, Carlyle, a private merchant banking firm, formed BDM Holdings, Inc.," and a subsidiary named New BDM, Inc., which acquired substantially all of the predecessor's assets. The investor group, led by [[Carlyle Group]] and members of management, paid about 118 million dollars in cash, adjusted by arbitration in August 1991 to a final price of about 126.5 million dollars, plus about 7 million dollars in expenses. The financing consisted of 30 million dollars in stock bought by the investors, 80.5 million dollars in senior secured borrowings, 10 million dollars from Carlyle for Series A Preferred Stock, and 13 million dollars from [[Loral Aerospace Corporation]], a subsidiary of [[Loral]], in subordinated notes due October 23, 1997. Carlyle received a financial advisory fee of about 1.6 million dollars.[^7] The Los Angeles Times of September 19, 1990 reported under the headline "Loral to Sell BDM to Carlyle Group for $130 Million," by Dean Takahashi, that [[Loral|Loral Corp.]], although its purchase of Ford Aerospace was not yet complete, said on Tuesday, September 18, that it would sell BDM International Inc., "the largest subsidiary of Ford Aerospace," to the Carlyle Group of Washington for 130 million dollars. The SEC filings above give about 118 million dollars in cash at the October 1990 closing and a final price of about 126.5 million dollars after arbitration in August 1991. The Times reported that the price was under a third of the 425 million dollars Ford Motor Company paid for BDM in 1988, and that analyst Walter Peterson of [[Ferris, Baker Watts]] said consulting firms typically sell for about 30 percent of annual revenue and that Loral was "getting a premium price." It also reported that Carlyle, with partner [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]], was one of several groups that had bid unsuccessfully for all of Ford Aerospace, and that Carlyle said it would name former Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci chairman of BDM.[^8]
The 1995 prospectus states that the predecessor company "was a public company from 1980 until 1988, when [[Ford Aerospace]], then a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Ford Motor Company]], acquired all of the outstanding stock."[^1] In October 1990, "on behalf of certain investors, Carlyle, a private merchant banking firm, formed BDM Holdings, Inc.," and a subsidiary named New BDM, Inc., which acquired substantially all of the predecessor's assets. The investor group, led by [[Carlyle Group]] and members of management, paid about 118 million dollars in cash, adjusted by arbitration in August 1991 to a final price of about 126.5 million dollars, plus about 7 million dollars in expenses. The financing consisted of 30 million dollars in stock bought by the investors, 80.5 million dollars in senior secured borrowings, 10 million dollars from Carlyle for Series A Preferred Stock, and 13 million dollars from [[Loral Aerospace Corporation]], a subsidiary of [[Loral]], in subordinated notes due October 23, 1997. Carlyle received a financial advisory fee of about 1.6 million dollars.[^7] The [[Los Angeles Times]] of September 19, 1990 reported under the headline "Loral to Sell BDM to Carlyle Group for $130 Million," by Dean Takahashi, that [[Loral|Loral Corp.]], although its purchase of Ford Aerospace was not yet complete, said on Tuesday, September 18, that it would sell BDM International Inc., "the largest subsidiary of Ford Aerospace," to the Carlyle Group of Washington for 130 million dollars. The SEC filings above give about 118 million dollars in cash at the October 1990 closing and a final price of about 126.5 million dollars after arbitration in August 1991. The Times reported that the price was under a third of the 425 million dollars Ford Motor Company paid for BDM in 1988, and that analyst Walter Peterson of [[Ferris, Baker Watts]] said consulting firms typically sell for about 30 percent of annual revenue and that Loral was "getting a premium price." It also reported that Carlyle, with partner [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]], was one of several groups that had bid unsuccessfully for all of Ford Aerospace, and that Carlyle said it would name former Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci chairman of BDM.[^8]
The investor group of October 23, 1990 comprised The Carlyle Partners Leveraged Capital Fund I, the [[Richard King Mellon Foundation]], and two [[Equitable Capital]] partnerships. The stockholders agreement provided for seven directors designated by Carlyle, five by management and three independent directors named jointly, with the board fixed at 13. In February 1991 the company sold 1,339,217 shares at 4 dollars to employees, directors and consultants and 1,500,000 shares to Carlyle at the same price; the board of regents of the [[University of Texas System]] and the [[Permanent University Fund]] of Texas later held shares as well. In July 1993 and March 1994 the company repurchased 100,000 shares each from the Mellon foundation at 8 and 12 dollars, and on May 27, 1994 it bought 2,250,000 common and 350,000 Class B shares from the investor group at 14 dollars.[^7]
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### Intelligence Community Work
Declassified [[Central Intelligence Agency]] records show BDM as a support contractor to several offices of the agency and its community staff. In a letter of December 2, 1983, the [[Intelligence Information Handling Committee]] of the [[Director of Central Intelligence]] thanked Earle Williams for the firm's work on an "Intelligence Community Telecommunications Issues Study" and for computer-security support to the committee's [[CIRS]] security working group.[^13] A memorandum of June 15, 1984 bound a BDM employee, [[Robert MacOnie]] (praised in the December 1983 letter for the telecommunications study), to restrictions on a draft statement of work for video-disc production, including a promise that BDM would not bid on the resulting contract.[^14] In 1985 BDM provided administrative support to a Concurrent Processing Symposium sponsored by the CIA and funded by [[DARPA]], held on July 15 to 17 at the [[West Park Hotel]], [[Tysons Corner, Virginia]], and on July 18 at CIA headquarters, with about 250 attendees from the CIA and other community agencies, the National Security Council and the Air Force; panel discussions on classified applications followed on the fourth day.[^15] On July 26, 1985 BDM's Stuart W. Bowen wrote to the CIA that BDM had presented a one-day program on how BDM operates to senior [[National Security Agency]] executives twice, most recently in June 1985, paid for by the NSA through a purchase request of about 1,000 dollars.[^16] On August 29, 1985 the CIA's Office of Training and Education replied to [[Stuart W. Bowen]] of BDM, who had proposed a one-day program for senior executives, that the agency was "not in a position to pursue that type of program," while the Office of Information Technology would review BDM briefings offered by [[Laurence Jacobs]].[^16] A February 1987 memorandum records a briefing to the CIA Comptroller on a BDM study of the Office of Communications' funding.[^17] A CIA employee was to speak on contracting at BDM in McLean on February 27, 1985 in a professional development program of the [[Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association]], on a panel with a representative of the National Security Agency.[^18]
Declassified [[Central Intelligence Agency]] records show BDM as a support contractor to several offices of the agency and its community staff. In a letter of December 2, 1983, the [[Intelligence Information Handling Committee]] of the [[Director of Central Intelligence]] thanked Earle Williams for the firm's work on an "Intelligence Community Telecommunications Issues Study" and for computer-security support to the committee's [[CIRS]] security working group.[^13] A memorandum of June 15, 1984 bound a BDM employee, [[Robert MacOnie]] (praised in the December 1983 letter for the telecommunications study), to restrictions on a draft statement of work for video-disc production, including a promise that BDM would not bid on the resulting contract.[^14] In 1985 BDM provided administrative support to a Concurrent Processing Symposium sponsored by the CIA and funded by [[DARPA]], held on July 15 to 17 at the [[West Park Hotel]], [[Tysons Corner, Virginia]], and on July 18 at CIA headquarters, with about 250 attendees from the CIA and other community agencies, the National Security Council and the Air Force; panel discussions on classified applications followed on the fourth day.[^15] On July 26, 1985 BDM's Stuart W. Bowen wrote to the CIA that BDM had presented a one-day program on how BDM operates to senior [[National Security Agency]] executives twice, most recently in June 1985, paid for by the NSA through a purchase request of about 1,000 dollars.[^16] On August 29, 1985 the CIA's Office of Training and Education replied to [[Stuart W. Bowen]] of BDM, who had proposed a one-day program for senior executives, that the agency was "not in a position to pursue that type of program," while the Office of Information Technology would review BDM briefings offered by [[Laurence Jacobs]].[^16] A February 1987 memorandum records a briefing to the CIA Comptroller on a BDM study of the Office of Communications' funding.[^17] A CIA employee was to speak on contracting at BDM in McLean on February 27, 1985 in a professional development program of the [[Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association]], on a panel with a representative of the [[NSA|National Security Agency]].[^18]
The [[State Department]] letter of June 27, 1985 to the director of the [[Intelligence Community Staff]] states that when the [[Office of Foreign Missions]] was established in early 1983 it had three State officers, two secretaries, one representative each from the CIA, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], the NSA, Army, [[United States Navy|Navy]], Air Force and [[Customs Service]], and five BDM employees; by June 1985 the "contract work force" was 35 BDM employees plus four consultants, which the letter ties to a "sophisticated data base management system accessible to the foreign affairs and national security communities." BDM staff were assigned to its programs: 11 employees in motor vehicle controls (registration, titling, plates, drivers' licenses and diplomats' traffic violations), six in the tax exemption card program, two in housing services, one in customs clearance, and three systems analysts full time on an accreditation data base. The sanitized letter is marked Secret.[^19]
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The 1997 solicitation statement records that in the last week of August 1997 Philip A. Odeen and other executives decided to explore a combination; that [[Wasserstein Perella and Co.]] was engaged on September 8; that [[TRW]] signed a standstill agreement on September 29; that on October 31 TRW indicated 28.00 dollars a share, which the company's adviser said the board would not pursue; and that on November 10 TRW stated that to raise the price it required an irrevocable option and agreement to tender from Carlyle, a 35 million dollar break-up fee and a no-shop provision, together with employment arrangements for senior management. On November 12 TRW indicated 29.50 dollars. TRW's chairman [[Joseph T. Gorman]] had met Odeen on November 6. [[Bear Stearns]] gave TRW a fairness opinion on November 20, and the agreement was signed that evening. Carlyle affiliates holding 7,660,000 shares, about 25.8 percent, agreed to tender and gave an option at 29.50 dollars.[^29] TRW's offer documents estimate the funds required at about 930 million dollars; the joint press release of November 21, 1997 calls the transaction "valued at nearly $1 billion."[^29] Under the merger agreement the Carlyle monitoring and advisory arrangements ended at the effective time, and Odeen and [[Roy Woodle]], president and chief executive of Vinnell, were to sign new employment agreements.[^29] TRW's subsidiary Systems Acquisition Inc. completed the tender offer on December 24, 1997 and was merged into BDM on December 29, 1997, leaving BDM a wholly owned TRW subsidiary;[^30] BDM filed a Form 15 on December 29, 1997.[^31]
### Reports and procurement decisions in public indexes
The Defense Technical Information Center catalog lists BDM Corporation of McLean, Virginia as author organization of volume 6 of "A Study of Strategic Lessons Learned in Vietnam" (ADA096430).[^32] A "Sword Paper, Strategic Country Assessment, [[El Salvador]]" (ADA196443) and an "El Salvador Psychological Operations Assessment" (ADA198959) carry text referring to Task Order 723 and Task Order 823, Low Intensity Conflict Cell Support, and to Court Prisk of BDM Management Services Corporation.[^32] BDM Federal, Inc. is named as preparer in Army Research Institute task-analysis reports including ADA314647 (January 28, 1994), ADA318677 (September 1996) and ADA328260.[^32] The DTIC directory of organizational report codes (ADA281500, July 4, 1994) lists "BDM/ABQ," BDM Corp Albuquerque, New Mexico, code 391884.[^32]
The General Accounting Office's online bid protest index returns decisions whose captions or snippets name BDM, among them B-177542(2) (May 23, 1973), B-195907 (February 13, 1980; a contract for operations research and systems analysis "awarded to BDM"), B-201291 (June 26, 1981), B-202707 (October 28, 1981; "THE BDM CORP"), B-211129 (August 23, 1983), B-211036.2 (April 9, 1984), B-212858 (December 23, 1983; a headnote stating that a compensation arrangement "invalidates the award to BDM"), and B-228287 (February 1, 1988; "BDM Management Services Company"). The snippets do not show the full holding of each decision.[^33]
### Footnotes
[^1]: BDM International, Inc., Form S-1/A, filed June 26, 1995, "Corporate History," SEC accession 0000950112-95-001766, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950112-95-001766.txt. The 1996 Form 10-K (0000870763-97-000002) repeats the founders' names.
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[^29]: BDM International, Inc., Schedule 14D-9, filed November 26, 1997 (letter to stockholders; "Background of the Offer"; Stockholders Agreement; severance and employment arrangements; press release of November 21, 1997), accession 0000950152-97-008353, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950152-97-008353.txt; TRW Inc., Schedule 14D-1, same date, accession 0000950152-97-008369, Item 9 (about 930 million dollars), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950152-97-008369.txt.
[^30]: TRW Inc., Form 8-K, accession 0000950152-97-008891, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100030/0000950152-97-008891.txt.
[^31]: BDM International, Inc., Form 15-12G, filed December 29, 1997, accession 0000950152-97-008867, EDGAR filing index https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/870763/0000950152-97-008867-index.html.
[^32]: Defense Technical Information Center, discover.dtic.mil searches of October 3, 2026 for BDM with "nonlethal," "psychological operations," "directed energy" and "low intensity conflict" (page 1 of each), results at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA096430, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA196443.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA198959.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA314647.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA318677.pdf, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA328260.pdf and https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA281500.pdf; entries read as search snippets only, the reports themselves not opened.
[^33]: General Accounting Office, bid protest decisions search for "BDM," gao.gov, October 3, 2026, page 1, not date-filtered; entries read as search snippets only, the decisions themselves not opened.