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George Mason University launches Race, Politics, and Policy Center
George Mason University’s Race, Politics, and Policy Center launched Monday. American philosopher, author and political activist Cornel West will be its inaugural spring lecturer on April 14. GMU’s Schar School of Policy and Government professor Michael Fauntroy founded the center after returning to GMU from Howard University this year. The center will advance student learning, [&helli[...]
Intact Technology to expand Fairfax HQ
Fairfax-based IT consulting firm Intact Technology will expand its headquarters, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. The expansion will create more than 40 jobs, and Intact will invest at least $700,000, the governor’s office said. Virginia competed against Maryland for the project. In 2020, Intact relocated its headquarters from Greenbelt, Maryland, to Reston. The company was […]
CGI Building in Fairfax sells for $55.3M
The CGI Building in Fairfax sold for $55.3 million on Oct. 5. Located at 12601 Fair Lakes Circle, the 10-story office building is 259,511 square feet and occupies 8.36 acres. It is 88% leased to four tenants, primarily government contractors, and anchored by CGI Federal Inc., part of CGI Inc. The property was recently renovated […]
Fairfax software company wins $207M VA contract
Fairfax-based tech contractor Salient CRGT Inc. won a $207 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to design and operate its enterprise network security and network transportation services. Under the five-year, single-award task order, named Network Engineering, Design, Implementation and Infrastructure Support (NEDIIS), Salient CRGT will implement, maintain and improve the V[...]
Alpine-X opens crowdfunding campaign to public investors
Alpine-X LLC, a McLean-based indoor snow sports company, announced a crowdfunding campaign to open the stock to public investors. The offering — started on crowdfunding site Republic — allows accredited and non-accredited investors to own a piece of the McLean-based company that is planning a national chain of indoor ski resorts. So far, more than […]
2 Va. companies land spots on $151M Navy IT contract
Two Virginia companies have landed spots on a $151 million contract to provide full IT lifecycle support to the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command’s core facilities, management, construction management and installation management systems. Norfolk-based Chitra Productions LLC and Fairfax-based AttainX Inc. will both do work alongside three other companies in Atlanta, Kansas and Ohio[...]
CVP acquires D.C. healthcare consulting company
Fairfax-based Customer Value Partners Inc. (CVP), a business and technology consulting company, acquired federal health contractor Atlas Research LLC, it announced Tuesday. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed. “Atlas’ experience as the trusted transformation partner of clients across the Veteran Affairs and Health and Human Services provide the advisory and consult[...]
ASGN Inc. acquires Fairfax consulting firm
Richmond-based ASGN Inc., a Fortune 1000 provider of IT and professional services, acquired Fairfax-based Enterprise Resource Performance Inc., a health care consulting and data analytics firm that delivers federal healthcare transformation services, ASGN announced Thursday. ERPi’s 250 consultants will become part of ECS, ASGN’s Fairfax-based federal contracting subsidiary. ERPi was fo[...]
VEDP’s new board chair is Dewberry COO
Dan Pleasant, chief operating officer for Fairfax-based planning, design and construction company Dewberry, has been named chair of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Board of Directors. His two-year term began July 1. The motion to approve Pleasant’s nomination passed unanimously during the 17-member board’s April 29 meeting. Pleasant has served on VEDP’s board for [...]
Dewberry acquires Alabama engineering firm
Fairfax-based professional services firm Dewberry has acquired Birmingham, Alabama-based Edmonds Engineering. A mechanical, electrical and plumbing design and facilities engineering company, Edmonds has 75 employees and five offices in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. The new subsidiary will be branded as Dewberry | Edmonds and will continue operating under its existing leadership. Financial te[...]
Fairfax real estate developer Milt Peterson dies
Real estate developer Milton V. Peterson, founder and chairman of the Fairfax-based Peterson Cos., died early Wednesday at his Fairfax County home at the age of 85. Peterson was known for developing major real estate projects across the Washington, D.C., metro area, including National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Maryland. “Milt would not accept ‘no’ […]
3Pillar Global closes third acquisition within year
Fairfax-based product lifecycle management company 3Pillar Global Inc. has completed an acquisition of North Carolina-based software firm Software Development Europe, it announced Tuesday. It’s the third acquisition for 3Pillar during the past year — part of a growth strategy fueled by an investment from New York-based private equity investor CIP Capital, according to 3Pillar. The [&hellip[...]
