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Technomics to add 150 jobs in Arlington
Government contracting firm Technomics Inc. is investing $1.7 million to expand its Arlington headquarters and add 150 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. Technomics is an employee-owned consulting firm that specializes offers a variety of analytics services for federal and international government clients. The company will lease an additional 10,000 square feet at 1225 South […]
Noblis names VP, chief solution architect
Reston-based Noblis Inc. has named Jim Soltys vice president of business development and chief solution architect, succeeding Lisa Gardner, who was named vice president of the company’s federal civilian solutions mission area in late October. “We are fortunate to have someone like Jim ready to step into this role,” Gardner said in a statement. “As […]
Artificial intelligence gets real
Technology being developed in a nondescript office building in Reston could change how Army soldiers train for and operate in combat thousands of miles away. The Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) runs on a pair of Microsoft goggles and links to a microsized drone that flies autonomously and collects video analyzed in real time […]
Noblis promotes exec to chief growth officer
Reston-based Noblis Inc. has. promoted Matt Salter to chief growth officer. In the newly created role, Salter will be responsible for implementing the company’s corporate growth strategy, including business development, capture, competitive analysis and marketing and branding, while also focusing on long-term initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions and corporate ventures. “Establishing th[...]
HII lands $2.4B contract for Navy’s next amphibious warship
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.’s Mississippi-based Ingalls Shipbuilding has received a $2.4 billion contract modification for the construction of the Navy’s fourth American-class amphibious assault ship (LHA 9), according to the Department of Defense. The fixed-price incentive contract includes options that could bring the cumulative value of the contract to $3.2 billion if exercis[...]
Accenture Federal Services lands $189M CDC contract
Arlington-based Accenture Federal Services has received a $189 million contract to help speed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s migration to the cloud. According to a news release Thursday, AFS will work with the CDC modernize its portfolio of information technology systems, examine enhancing functionality of those systems, and move systems into a secured […]
Reading the room
In 2017, David Kern, a retired Naval submarine officer turned entrepreneur, had a lightbulb moment. While working on a data analytics project at a desk in the Naval Station Norfolk annex, he realized that his company, Virginia Beach-based Kern Technology Group LLC, needed to shift from focusing on product development to becoming a service contractor. […]
MetroStar Systems lands $155M contract from Marines
Reston-based MetroStar Systems Inc. has received a contract to provide the Marine Corps Technology Services Organization with business information systems support, the Pentagon announced Monday. The contract is a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum value of $155 million and a five-year ordering period. Fiscal 2022 funds totaling $5.92 million will be oblig[...]
GDIT receives $908M contract
Falls Church-based federal contractor General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. has been awarded a $908 million contract to support IT and network systems operated by the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The award is for the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Europe-Wide Information Technology and Enterprise Network contract run by the 764th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron at Ramstein[...]
Harder, better, faster, stronger
On March 20, 1922, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier: the USS Langley. A century later, the Navy is hosting centennial events around the country, including in Norfolk, where the USS Langley was converted into the Navy’s first carrier from the USS Jupiter, the Navy’s first electrically propelled ship. The Jupiter was decommissioned […]
Excella wins $117M federal IT contract
Arlington-based software and information technology management company Excella has won a nearly $117 million contract to help digitize and streamline U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service benefits and adjudication systems, the firm announced early Tuesday. Under the five-year Digital Innovation and Development II contract, Excella will assist the agency, a part of the U.S. Department of [&helli[...]
PAE lands $111.7M contract from U.S. Army
PAE Applied Technologies LLC has been awarded a contract worth $111.7 million for the operations, maintenance and repair work at the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany, the Department of Defense announced Monday. The contract includes maintenance and repair of installed building equipment, equipment-in-place, minor construction, ground maintenance, snow, ice and sand removal, pest contr[...]
