# Elbit Systems Completes the Acquisition of the Cyber and Intelligence Division of NICE Systems (Elbit press release) > *Elbit Systems' own press release, distributed via PR Newswire on July 1, 2015, confirming that the acquisition first announced on May 21, 2015 had closed and that the NICE Cyber and Intelligence division was acquired by Cyberbit Ltd., Elbit's wholly owned subsidiary "recently established in order to consolidate Elbit Systems' activities relating to the Cyber Intelligence and Cyber Security markets." It is the primary-source confirmation of closing (completing the chain begun by NICE's SEC-filed announcement) and of the corporate home of the divested unit. It matters to the Arkansas surveillance investigation because it fixes, from the acquirer's own words, that the communications-intelligence business left NICE's corporate family entirely and became Cyberbit under defense contractor Elbit — so NICE's present public-safety/evidence products carry a different lineage than the lawful-intercept intelligence tools it sold off.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** PR Newswire (Cision); source attributed to "Elbit Systems Ltd" (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT) - **URL:** https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elbit-systems-completes-the-acquisition-of-the-cyber-and-intelligence-division-of-nice-systems-511161911.html - **Archived:** 2026-06-07 via firecrawl_scrape (markdown) - **Tier:** 2 (primary/official — issuing company's press release) - **Date:** July 1, 2015 (Haifa, Israel) ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned) "HAIFA, Israel, July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --" "Elbit Systems Ltd. ('Elbit Systems') (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT), announced today, further to its announcement of May 21 2015, that it completed the acquisition of the Cyber and Intelligence division of NICE Systems." "NICE Cyber and Intelligence division was acquired by CYBERBIT™ Ltd. ('CYBERBIT'), Elbit Systems' wholly-owned subsidiary, recently established in order to consolidate Elbit Systems' activities relating to the Cyber Intelligence and Cyber Security markets." **About Elbit Systems (verbatim):** "Elbit Systems Ltd. is an international high technology company engaged in a wide range of defense, homeland security and commercial programs throughout the world. The Company, which includes Elbit Systems and its subsidiaries, operates in the areas of aerospace, land and naval systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance ('C4ISR'), unmanned aircraft systems, advanced electro-optics, electro-optic space systems, EW suites, signal intelligence systems, data links and communications systems, radios and cyber-based systems."