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GDIT lands $450M CMS contract
Falls Church-based federal contractor General Dynamics Information Technology won a $450 million Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contract, the General Dynamics subsidiary announced Thursday. Under the contract, GDIT will continue operating and modernizing CMS’ Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS), an accounting system that standardizes federal financia[...]
Northrop Grumman lands $705M missile contract
Falls Church-based aerospace contractor Northrop Grumman will develop and test the Air Force’s new air-to-surface missile under a $705 million contract. Under the contract, announced Monday by the Air Force and the Fortune 500 contractor, the company will develop, integrate and complete flight testing and rapid prototyping of the service’s stand-in attack weapon (SiAW) during […[...]
Two NoVa companies receive $1.5B DOD tech contract
Two Northern Virginia-based federal contractors have received a five-year contract valued up to $1.5 billion to provide analytic and technical support services to the Department of Defense’s administrative and management organization. Falls Church-based Analytic Services, known as ANSER, and Alexandria-based Systems Planning & Analysis, known as SPA, will provide acquisition and sustain[...]
GDIT names new chief growth officer
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology has named Paul Tartaglione as its new chief growth officer, the company, a subsidiary of Fortune 500 contractor General Dynamics, announced Monday. Tartaglione started in his new role Monday. He joined GDIT from McLean-based Fortune 500 management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, where he most recently served as senior vice […]
Real Estate 2023: BRETT HITT
Hitt’s grandparents started the family business in 1930, now one of Virginia’s biggest general contracting firms, earning $5.41 billion in 2022 construction revenue and landing in the top 20 of Engineering News-Record’s 2023 Top Contractors list. Hitt joined his family’s company as an assistant project manager in 1984. He rose through the ranks to become […]
Real Estate 2023: KIM ROY
From a young age, Roy has been interested in being a builder, and in 2017, she was appointed the first non-family member to lead the 86-year-old company that employs more than 900 workers in the commonwealth. A Virginia Tech alumna with a bachelor’s degree in construction, Roy went to work at Hitt in 1999 as […]
Real Estate 2023: JON JENNINGS
The third generation to lead the general contracting firm started as a masonry firm in 1952 by his grandfather, bricklayer Lawrence Floyd Jennings, Jon Jennings oversees about 350 employees and a large portfolio of projects in the Richmond and Washington, D.C., regions. Larry Jennings, L.F.’s son and Jon’s father, joined the company in 1965 and […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: Y. MICHELE KANG
Born in South Korea, Kang moved to the United States as a teen with her family, driven to succeed. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and her master’s degree from the Yale School of Management. An entrepreneur who started companies and bought and invested in others, she has always been focused on […]
Real Estate 2023: MARK DAVID EIN
In addition to serving as Kastle Systems’ executive chairman, Ein is now a new limited partner in the Washington Commanders as part of the group led by majority owner Josh Harris that purchased the Ashburn-based NFL team for a record $6.05 billion in July. Ein also helps run the Citi Open tennis tournament in Washington, […]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: TOM ARSENEAULT
As head of one of the Pentagon’s 10 biggest prime contractors, Arseneault has spent his career heading complex organizations on challenging missions. BAE Systems Inc. is the U.S. arm of the British defense giant and reported $12.6 billion in revenue in 2022. It has 31,300 employees in the U.S., including more than 5,000 in Virginia. […]
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 […]
Inova hires new chief information and digital officer
Inova has snagged another top executive from the Cleveland Clinic. Matthew Kull has been named as chief information and digital officer of the health system, which spans five hospitals and employs 20,000 people in Northern Virginia, the system announced Monday. Kull will start Aug. 7. Most recently, Kull served as chief information officer for Ohio-based […]
