Salient Federal Solutions was seeking a change. The contractor, founded in 2009, was growing only modestly, according to its chief executive. With federal budgets set to rise from a low point, the contractor was in search of a catalyst, Brad Antle told InsideDefense.com earlier this week. "Just doing a tuck-in acquisition . . . doesn't really change the nature of the company," he said. "We were really looking to make a giant step, not an incremental step." Salient earlier...