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Feb 13, 2024

CoStar Group moving global HQ to Arlington

UPDATED: Feb. 16, 10 a.m. CoStar Group, which already has a major presence in Richmond, will invest $20 million to move its global corporate headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Arlington County’s Rosslyn area, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. Known for its online real estate marketplaces Apartments.com and Homes.com, the real estate analytics and data […]

BlueHalo nears $1B in annual revenue with acquisition
Feb 13, 2024

BlueHalo nears $1B in annual revenue with acquisition

Arlington-based tech contractor BlueHalo announced Tuesday it plans to acquire Maryland-based Eqlipse Technologies, a purchase that the company expects to bring its annual revenue to nearly $1 billion.  Eqlipse and BlueHalo are both portfolio companies of Arlington Capital Partners, and together, the combined company will have 2,400 employees, including 200 doctorate holders, across 11 states, [&[...]

CIV, seen here on a M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, is an electro-optical/infrared sight system. Photo courtesy RTX
Jan 29, 2024

RTX subsidiary lands $154M Army contract

Raytheon, a subsidiary of Arlington County-based RTX, received a $154 million contract to deliver independent viewer systems to the U.S. Army, the Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor announced Wednesday. Under the contract, Raytheon, which, like its parent company, is also based in Arlington, will deliver Commander’s Independent Viewer (CIV) systems for the Army’s Bradley [&he[...]

FAA probes Boeing’s possible role in 737 Max 9 cabin blowout
Jan 11, 2024

FAA probes Boeing’s possible role in 737 Max 9 cabin blowout

Nearly a week after a four-foot wall panel blew out of a Boeing plane cabin midair, exposing Alaska Airlines passengers to open air at 16,000 feet, the Federal Aviation Administration formally notified the Arlington County-based aerospace giant Wednesday that it will investigate the company’s potential role in the incident and whether it failed to ensure […]

HII names two legislative affairs execs
Jan 11, 2024

HII names two legislative affairs execs

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries has promoted Peter Courtney to corporate vice president of legislative affairs and hired Betsy Bina Benedict as director of legislative affairs. Courtney was previously HII’s director of legislative affairs and takes the place of Carolyn Apostolou, who retired in December 2023. He will work from the Arlington County office and […]

Rhodes B. Ritenour
Jan 9, 2024

Bon Secours VP named American Diabetes Association board chair

Rhodes B. Ritenour, Bon Secours’ Richmond market vice president for external and regulatory affairs, is the 2024 board chair of the American Diabetes Association, the Arlington County-based nonprofit announced Thursday. A former deputy state attorney general, Ritenour has lived with type 1 diabetes since age 5 and served as chairman of the association’s board in […]

A StormBreaker smart weapon. Photo courtesy RTX
Jan 3, 2024

RTX subsidiary wins $345M Air Force contract

Raytheon, a subsidiary of Arlington County-based aerospace and defense contractor RTX, won a $344.6 million U.S. Air Force contract modification, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Raytheon will produce more than 1,500 StormBreaker smart weapons, which are air-to-surface, network-enabled weapons that can engage moving targets in all weather conditions, according to a RTX news release. [&h[...]

Samia Byrd. Photo courtesy Arlington County.
Dec 1, 2023

Arlington taps community planning, housing leader

Samia Byrd has been named to lead Arlington County’s Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development beginning Jan. 3, 2024, the county announced Wednesday. Byrd’s responsibilities will include leading the next generation of land use regulations, plans, development policies and practices, housing, and community and neighborhood planning programs. She succeeds Claude Williamso[...]

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Dec 1, 2023

RTX’s Pratt & Whitney division receives $701M aircraft contract

Arlington-based defense giant RTX’s Pratt & Whitney aerospace division in Connecticut will provide sustainment and other support services for propulsion systems on the F-35 fighter jet under a $701 million modification to a Navy contract. Pratt & Whitney will provide program management, propulsion integration, engineering, management services, software sustainment, security managemen[...]

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Nov 30, 2023

Boeing receives $2.3B Air Force contract for tanker aircraft

Arlington County-based Boeing has received a $2.3 billion contract to build 15 more KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the Air Force. The Pentagon announced the award for production lot 10 of the tankers Tuesday. Boeing has 153 of the aerial refuelers under contract globally and has delivered 76 to the Air Force and two to Japan, […]

A street view of Met Park, the first phase of Amazon's HQ2. Photo courtesy Amazon.com Inc.
Nov 22, 2023

Amazon HQ2 impact on housing market short-lived, report says

The June opening of Amazon.com’s $2.5 billion East Coast headquarters in Arlington County only had a short-lived impact on home prices, and it’s hard to pinpoint HQ2‘s direct impact due to other factors affecting residential costs, according to a report released this month by Bright MLS Research. When Amazon announced it would bring 25,000 highly-paid […]

Fix-it shop
Oct 30, 2023

Fix-it shop

Since becoming Arlington County’s economic development director in November 2022, Ryan Touhill’s most pressing challenge has been sharply delineated: The county’s office vacancy rate has hit 23.7%, nearly twice the national rate of 13.1%, a record high itself, according to the National Association of Realtors. Like other localities, Arlington is coping with multiple factors that [...]

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