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Critical minerals co. reactivates Petersburg operation
Petersburg-based Atlantic Strategic Minerals will invest more than $50 million to restore and reopen a mining operation in Dinwiddie County and a concentrator plant and mineral separation plant in Sussex County, producing critical minerals that are used in various supply chains, the governor’s office announced Monday. The project is expected to create 71 jobs at […]
Leidos receives $158M Air Force contract
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor Leidos won a follow-on contract valued up to $158 million to develop and expand the Air Force’s Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application, a government-owned software application system, the company announced Thursday. Kessel Run, a division within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, awarded the contract, which has [&hell[...]
Dominion closes sale of East Ohio Gas for $6.6B
Richmond-based Fortune 500 utility Dominion Energy closed on its sale of East Ohio Gas to Canadian pipeline and energy company Enbridge in a $6.6 billion deal, the utility announced Thursday. The sale was first announced in September 2023 as part of a deal for Dominion to sell its three natural gas distribution companies. The Public […]
Modine will invest $18.1M in Rockbridge County expansion
Modine Manufacturing, a manufacturer of cooling equipment for data centers, will invest $18.1 million to expand its Rockbridge County operation, creating an estimated 211 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. Wisconsin-based Modine, which builds thermal management systems and components, saw $2.3 billion in net sales in fiscal year 2023, a 12% increase over the previous […]
New president and CEO named for Herndon’s Deltek
Deltek announced Tuesday that Bob Hughes will become the Herndon-based software company’s president and CEO in April when current leader Mike Corkery moves to an operating group executive role at Roper Technologies, Deltek’s Florida-based parent company. Previously, Hughes worked as an executive at Kronos, a workforce management software company. When Kronos merged with Ultimate Software[...]
McLean’s Iridium to purchase Satelles
McLean-based Iridium Communications, a global satellite communications company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, a Reston-based provider of satellite-based time and location services that serve as a backup for GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), Iridium announced Monday. Satelles’ positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) service is known as Satellite T[...]
Light at the end of the tunnel
Off and on since the 1980s, John Rivera has commuted from his home in Hampton to Naval Station Norfolk. He’s seen Interstate 64 grow from two to four lanes in the region, but these days, Rivera, a ship maintenance manager for the U.S. Navy, mainly sees lots of traffic jams caused by the $3.9 billion […]
VTCSOM seeks to create neurosurgery department
Administrators at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine are working toward establishing a department of neurosurgery, a step up from its smaller program. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) received the school’s proposal for creating the new department in early August and could vote on it as soon as Oct. 24, […]
Wallops Island lifts off with Rocket Lab addition
Rocket Lab USA is boosting the visibility of one of the United States’ lesser-known spaceports on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Since January, the California-based aerospace company has launched three successful missions from its Launch Complex 2 at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Rocket Lab selected the spaceport, located within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Accomack County, a[...]
EarthLink support center approaches completion
By mid-August, construction workers had gotten up a big portion of the steel framework for the 28,000-square-foot, two-story building that will house EarthLink’s customer support center at Project Intersection, a new business and industrial park in Norton. Employees of the Atlanta-based high-speed internet service provider should be able to move into the building by March […]
