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The 2023 Heavy Hitters list
Virginia Business’ annual list of the commonwealth’s 50 most powerful and influential leaders provides our editors’ take on the heaviest-hitting of heavyweights in business, government, nonprofits and higher education. Think of it as an executive committee for the leaders populating our annual Virginia 500 issue — the top 10% of the state’s power elite. And […]
Defense and defensibility
When it comes to tech and government contractors, Northern Virginia’s national profile continued to rise in 2022. Arlington County, where Amazon.com Inc.’s multibillion-dollar HQ2 is continuing to take shape in National Landing, made headlines around the globe in spring 2022. Fortune 500 companies Boeing Co. and Raytheon Technologies Corp. announced within weeks of each other […[...]
Va. Tech names new biz school dean
Saonee Sarker, a professor at Sweden’s Lund University, will serve as the next dean of the Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business following an international search. Virginia Tech announced Sarker’s new role Monday. She has been a professor in Lund University’s Department of Informatics in the School of Economics and Management since 2021, and is also a […]
Amentum to relocate headquarters to Chantilly
Aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc. is consolidating its operations and moving its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly, a move that will add 157 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. The relocation comes a little more than a year after Amentum completed its $1.9 billion all-cash purchase of Falls Church-based government contractor PAE Inc. […]
Va. Tech names College of Architecture, Arts and Design dean
Virginia Tech has named a new dean to lead its College of Architecture, Arts, and Design (AAD) following an international search. Tsai Lu Liu will start July 1. He has led the Department of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, since 2012 and has a background in industry and […]
Hilton CEO Nassetta to chair U.S. Travel Association
The U.S. Travel Association elected Christopher J. Nassetta, president and CEO of McLean-based Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., as its national chair. The Washington, D.C.-based association, which represents the interests of more than 1,000 industry organizations, announced Nassetta’s election Thursday. As national chair, he will lead the association’s executive board and board of deleg[...]
BAE Systems receives $145M ship repair contract
BAE Systems’ Norfolk Ship Repair will repair, modernize and maintain the guided missile destroyer USS Nitze under a $145 million contract, the Pentagon announced Friday. Work will be performed in Norfolk and is part of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer’s scheduled depot modernization. The contract includes options that would bring its value up to $161 million […]
Torc names regulatory, safety SVP
Blacksburg-based Torc Robotics has named Michelle Chaka as senior vice president overseeing safety and regulatory matters, the self-driving truck company announced Wednesday. Chaka, who most recently has worked as a director for safety assurance and standards for Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking solutions firm Locomation Inc., will oversee and coordinate safety across the company, including it[...]
SAIC names SVP for Army biz unit
Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has named Josh Jackson to lead the company’s Army business unit. SAIC announced the promotion Wednesday. Jackson, who has been with the company since 2002, will be responsible for strategy and business development across the company’s solutions and services delivered to SAIC’s Army custome[...]
Valiant receives $530M food services contract
Herndon-based government contractor Valiant Integrated Services will provide food distribution services to land-based military establishments, embassies and U.S. Navy vessels at ports in the southern Arabian Peninsula and East African nations under a contract worth up to $530 million, the Pentagon announced Feb. 10. The firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract has an order[...]
