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BAE Systems wins $251M contract to support Navy AEGIS Combat System
The U.S. Navy has awarded Falls Church-based federal contractor BAE Systems with a five-year, $251 million contract to provide critical system engineering and on-site technical expertise to the AEGIS Technical Representative (AEGIS TECHREP) organization. Under the contract, which was awarded in November 2024 and announced Feb. 17, BAE Systems will support the complex combat system […]
Engineering without boundaries
The surging demand for energy. The country’s aging, overwhelmed electrical grid. Threats of cyberattacks. The explosion of interest in — and confusion about — artificial intelligence. These real-life problems don’t know boundaries. Neither should the search for solutions, says Azim Eskandarian, dean of Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Engineering. Cross-disciplinary learning[...]
Legal Elite 2024: Cybersecurity/Data Privacy/Technology Law
Joseph P. Bowser Roth Jackson Gibbons Condlin Richmond John G. Danyluk Gentry Locke Attorneys Richmond Darius Davenport Crenshaw, Ware & Martin Norfolk Gene Fishel Troutman Pepper Richmond William H. Hall Hancock Daniel Glen Allen C. Andrew Konia McGuireWoods Tysons Stephanie Lauterbach-Diaz Willcox Savage Norfolk Sharon D. Nelson Sensei Enterprises Fairfax Kellam T. Parks Parks Zeigler [&hell[...]
Defense tech startups close major funding rounds
Venture capital firms are betting big on two Northern Virginia-based defense contracting startups that are promising high-tech solutions to military challenges. In August, McLean-based Defcon AI announced it had raised $44 million in seed funding led by San Francisco investment firm Bessemer Venture Partners. The same month, Parry Labs in Alexandria raised $80 million in […]
In the pipeline
As Andre Marshall was speaking to a reporter about cybersecurity in late July, one of the biggest technology failures in recent memory was unfolding in real time. A worldwide Microsoft Windows outage on July 19 brought airports, banks, subways — and even the Marshall household — to a standstill. George Mason University’s vice president for […]
Spies in the sky?
High-level federal concerns over Chinese-made ship-to-shore cranes ramped up in February after President Joe Biden issued an executive order addressing cybersecurity and espionage risks the cranes pose at U.S. ports. Then in early March, a congressional investigation revealed cellular modems had been found on some Chinese crane components at a U.S. port and a modem […]
Biden executive order on Chinese cranes affects Port of Va.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday addressing cybersecurity and espionage concerns over Chinese-made cranes in use at U.S. ports, including the Port of Virginia. Additionally, the Biden administration announced a plan to invest $20 billion on infrastructure security at U.S. ports, including support for domestic manufacturing of ship-to-shore cranes. National security concerns [...]
Legal Elite 2023: Cybersecurity/Data Privacy/Technology
Darius K. Davenport Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, Norfolk Jonathan V. Gallo Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black, Norfolk William H. Hall Jr. Hancock Daniel, Glen Allen Christopher K. Jones Sands Anderson, Richmond C. Andrew Konia McGuireWoods, Tysons Sharon D. Nelson Sensei Enterprises, Fairfax Kellam T. Parks Parks Zeigler, Virginia Beach Kevin D. Pomfret Williams Mullen, Tysons Andrew […]
Legal Elite 2023: Cybersecurity/Data Privacy/Technology Q&A
Title: Managing partner and chair of Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group Other legal specialties: Government and public sector Education: Bachelor’s degree, Norfolk State University; law degree, University of Wisconsin Law School; certified information privacy professional, International Association of Privacy Professionals Family: Wife, Maria Lawson-Davenport, and sons Darius Da[...]
Private equity firm completes buy of Herndon’s Exostar
Arlington Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Herndon-based cybersecurity company Exostar, the Chevy Chase, Maryland-based private equity firm announced Monday. The deal was announced in September, and financial terms were not disclosed. It comes a little more than three years after Exostar was acquired by Chicago-based Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, in a […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: SHAWN PURVIS
Assuming the roles of president and CEO of QinetiQ US in February 2022, Purvis has nearly three decades of experience working in defense, intelligence and cybersecurity. Purvis joined the tech company from Northrop Grumman, where she was most recently enterprise services sector president and a corporate vice president. Before joining Northrop Grumman in 2012, Purvis […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: AMY GILLILAND
A former Navy surface warfare officer, Gilliland is responsible for leading an $8.5 billion IT company with 30,000 employees worldwide, 8,000 of whom work in Virginia. Gilliland joined parent company General Dynamics in 2005 and became president of GDIT in 2017. In addition to overseeing numerous federal contracts — including a $1.8 billion contract in […]
