Evergreen Capital served as Financial Advisor to Houston Associates of Arlington, Virginia, in acquiring Strategic Solutions Group, formerly a publicly traded company located in Annapolis, Maryland. With the transaction, Strategic Solutions Group became a division of privately held Houston Associates, a systems engineering firm. Strategic Solutions’ former President, Ernie Wagner, is now Vice President of Business Development for the Houston Associates subsidiary.

Houston Associates is a world-class provider of telecommunications, systems engineering, and management services to government and industry. The company specializes in the design and support of mission-critical, high-performance networks that provide integrated voice, data, video, and imagery in a wide-area, secure environment. As the result of their focus on cutting-edge performance, Houston is intimately involved in the cell switching and advanced satellite communication technologies that promise cost-effective, reliable, and adaptable solutions to the rapidly expanding demands of global communication.