Carlyle Group

At Booz Allen Hamilton’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, the firm’s vice presidents specializing in intelligence oversee two types of contract: offer two types of services: training executives and supplying critical systems to the agencies. Virtually all of the latter call on its services: NSA, DIA, CIA, FBI, NRO, and NGA (see graph). Even IARPA, the newly- established R&D unit of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), relies of the firm’s technology assessments.

Carlyle Group, the private-equity firm run by David Rubenstein, agreed to acquire Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.'s U.S. government-consulting business for $2.54 billion, its biggest buyout since the credit markets collapsed in July.

The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity funds, may soon acquire the $2 billion government contracting business of consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the biggest suppliers of technology and personnel to the U.S. government's spy agencies.

Carlyle Group's troubled mortgage debt investment fund, Carlyle Capital, said Monday that it had asked lenders to halt further liquidation of collateral worth as much as $16 billion while the two sides discussed possible ways to repay debt.

Carlyle Capital, the investment fund linked to the private equity company Carlyle Group, said Friday that it was "considering all available options" after it received further margin calls, prompting some analysts to warn that more funds could struggle to meet increasingly tighter margin requirements.

Carlyle Group, the world's second- biggest private-equity firm, plans to raise as much as $4 billion to invest in Asian companies as the credit freeze stalls U.S. and European leveraged buyouts, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Carlyle's plans to buy the government advisory unit of Booz Allen Hamilton, the management consultancy, are under attack from one of the largest US labour unions as a "threat to national security" because a state-controlled Abu Dhabi fund owns a stake in the US private equity group.

The United States is the world’s biggest consumer and importer of oil. But the Chinese economic juggernaut is fast catching up with the US as an oil importer and is projected to have more cars than the US by the year 2020. The competition between the two countries for new sources of oil is going to be intense. With crude oil prices closing in on an all-time high of $ 100 a barrel this week and expected to breach that barrier within the next few days, the US’s interest in getting a hammerlock on Central Asia’s vast oil and gas reserves is likely to become greater than ever before.

Carlyle Group isn't accustomed to failure. Over the past 15 years, it has built itself into one of the world's biggest and most successful private-equity funds by seeing value where others didn't. For most of that time, its risks have been carefully calculated, its timing nearly impeccable.

Police across the European Union are to be given free access to the DNA of four million Britons, a million of whom are innocent, it has emerged. Every member state will also be granted access to millions of fingerprints, as well as vehicle and driver registrations. A two-year agreement on cross-border co- operation between seven EU countries now becomes law involving all 27 nations.