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McLean tech company buys D.C.-based firm
McLean-based information technology company Ntiva Inc. announced Thursday it has acquired Washington, D.C.-based eGuard Technology Services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Ntiva provides managed IT, cloud hosting, cybersecurity, communications and strategic IT consulting services, while eGuard monitors, maintains and secures customer IT infrastructures through a single poin[...]
Herndon tech contractor announces leadership appointments
Herndon-based tech contractor Valiant Integrated Services LLC announced Friday that Chief Financial Officer Mike Pilon has been promoted as the company’s first enterprise chief operating officer in a string of new leadership appointments. Dan Corbett will succeed Pilon, who had served as CFO since 2017. In his new role, Pilon will oversee operations, engineering and […]
Leidos secures $149.2M Navy contract
The U.S. Navy awarded Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Leidos Holdings Inc. a $149.2 million contract to provide services and supplies for the Naval Array Technical Support Center facility’s operations, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. The majority of the work on the contract will be performed in Newport, Rhode Island; Reston and Virginia Beach. […]
ManTech lands $260M Navy task order
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Herndon-based ManTech, a technology contractor for U.S. defense, intelligence and federal civilian agencies, a four-year, $260 million task order to update the U.S. Navy’s mission systems for its maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. Under the task order, ManTech will work to modernize the P-3C Orion and P-8A Poseidon aircraft […]
PAE names readiness, sustainment VP
Falls Church-based defense and government services contractor Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE) announced last week it has named Cristal Rice as the vice president of its readiness and sustainment group. Rice comes from The Boeing Co., where she had worked since 2013. She was most recently the subdivision leader and senior program manager for U.S. […]
Reston contractor wins $135M DHS task order
Reston-based AceInfo Solutions LLC announced Tuesday it had been awarded a potential five-year, $135 million task order from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Under the task order, AceInfo (a subsidiary of McLean-based Dovel Technologies) will provide services to support the development, maintenance and modernization of NFIP’s w[...]
Could telework be the new normal for federal workers?
Telework could be here to stay, according to findings from a survey of top federal government executives released Tuesday by Reston-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC). A majority of the 300 respondents surveyed by Market Connections said they expect the technology changes put in place at their federal agencies in response […]
Calif. firm buys controlling stake in Vienna home security company
Palo Alto, California-based investment firm Twin Point Capital purchased a controlling stake in Vienna-based home security company Frontpoint Security, the company announced last week. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2007 by Chris Villar, Aaron Shumaker and Peter Rogers, Frontpoint provides home security, life safety and smart home products and services […]
Dulles software company to buy Texas-based firm
Dulles-based software company Unanet announced Wednesday it will acquire Austin, Texas-based customer relationship management software company Cosential. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Unanet provides project management software, timesheet software, expense reporting software and other human resources software to federal government contractors, architects and engineers (A/E). Cosen[...]
Reston contractor wins $59M USDA task order
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded Reston-based AceInfo Solutions LLC (AceInfo) a $59 million task order to develop crop insurance software platforms, the company announced Wednesday. Under the task order from the USDA’s Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Risk Management Agency (RMA), AceInfo (a Dovel Technologies subsidiary) will provide software development services t[...]
Reston-based NII Holdings Inc. to dissolve
Reston-based NII Holdings Inc. announced last week it has filed a petition in a Delaware court to dissolve the company 10 months after it divested its one remaining operating unit, which sold wireless communication services under the Nextel brand to América Móvil. On Dec. 18, 2019, NII Holdings closed the $948.5 million sale of its […]
Falls Church office building sells for $87.5M
An office building in Falls Church sold for $87.5 million, commercial real estate advisory firm Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) announced Tuesday. Located at 3170 and 3180 Fairview Park Drive, the 284,333-square-foot property is 98% leased, with tenants including General Dynamics Information Technology, Capital Caring Health, Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund and Balfour Beatty. “D[...]
