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Defense contractor bucks retrenchment trend
While the effects of the Trump administration’s cuts in the federal workforce and contracts reverberate throughout Northern Virginia and beyond, Alexandria-based Systems Planning & Analysis grabbed headlines in September 2025 when it announced it would spend $46.9 million and add 1,200 jobs across the city and in Fairfax County. SPA President Terry Benedict uses the […]
Fairfax’s commercial real estate market perks up
As vacancy remains elevated and older buildings struggle, companies like Iridium, Booz Allen and Workday are relocating to newer, amenity-rich offices in Tysons and Reston.
Despite federal coal support, Southwest Virginia aims to diversify
Southwest Virginia pursues nuclear, data centers, clean energy projects as coal declines and communities seek new economic paths.
Federal job cuts ripple through Northern Virginia
Trump’s federal job cuts are hitting Northern Virginia hard, with layoffs, stalled contracts, rising unemployment and a softening housing market.
ODU internship boost preps students for future
As a creative writing major at Old Dominion University, Kayla Boney says she knows jobs in her field after graduation may be “one in a million.” However, an internship with Teens with a Purpose, a Norfolk-based youth creative arts nonprofit, showed Boney, a 20-year-old rising junior, that her pursuits in the humanities, while challenging, can […]
Homegrown success: Hampton Roads Inc. 5000 firms
It may go without saying that a company called TheBestReputation might lean into the name it built for itself as it considers success. TheBestReputation CEO and co-founder Chris Hinman also credits his team’s hard work for helping land the Williamsburg-based digital marketing, public relations and online reputation management firm at No. 201 on the 2025 […]
ODU internships boost student success, employer ties
As a creative writing major at Old Dominion University, Kayla Boney says she knows jobs in her field after graduation may be “one in a million.” An internship with Teens with a Purpose, a Norfolk-based youth creative arts nonprofit, showed Boney, a 20-year-old rising junior, that her pursuits in the humanities, while challenging, can result […]
Manassas aviation startup lands $115 million round
Demand has taken off for Manassas-based aviation startup Electra.aero’s electric short takeoff and landing aircraft, the EL9 Ultra Short, with more than 2,200 preorders totaling more than $10 billion. Now, with $115 million raised in a Series B funding round that closed in April, the company plans to move from prototype to development, Electra Chief […]
A look inside George Mason’s $107M high-tech labs
George Mason’s new Life Sciences and Engineering Building boosts hands-on learning in forensics, life sciences and tech research in Manassas.
Mecklenburg says no to future large solar projects
Mecklenburg County halts future utility-scale solar farms, citing concerns about aesthetics, land use and financial impact.
