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May 19, 2025

VTG acquires 3 Northern Virginia tech companies

Chantilly-based engineering firm VTG announced last week that it has acquired three firms in an effort to expand its intelligence community footprint. On April 30, VTG announced that it acquired Fulton, Maryland-based Triaplex.

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May 15, 2025

Leesburg firm lays off 155 after Navy cancels $170M contract

Leesburg-based data company Pantheon Data this week laid off 155 workers — including 33 Virginia employees — after the U.S. Navy canceled its $170 million service contract with the company on May 12. 

265 Va. companies make 2024 Inc. 5000 list
Aug 13, 2024

265 Va. companies make 2024 Inc. 5000 list

This year, 265 Virginia companies made the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies, released Tuesday by Inc. magazine. Ranking at No. 53 overall, Ashburn IT services firm Blu Omega, a woman-owned small business founded in 2020, was the highest-ranking Virginia company on the list. Blu Omega’s clients include federal agencies […]

From seed to success
May 30, 2024

From seed to success

On an early morning in summer 2021, a small group of engineers and drone operators gathered at Lake Elsinore in California to see if their machines would fly as designed. With newly incorporated sensor technology, it was the first time the founders of Leesburg-based Flying Ship Co. attempted to fly one of their autonomous vehicles […]

Transportation 2023: WILLIAM E. ‘BILL’ WOODHOUR
Aug 30, 2023

Transportation 2023: WILLIAM E. ‘BILL’ WOODHOUR

Woodhour has spent 32 years with Maersk Line, starting in sales and marketing, working his way up to president and CEO in 2016. Maersk Line is the Virginia-based U.S. arm of Danish shipping giant A.P. Møller-Mærsk, founded in 1983 to support the Navy. With offices in Norfolk and Dulles, it specializes in providing transportation, ship […]

Finance | Insurance 2023: SHANE McLAUGHLIN
Aug 30, 2023

Finance | Insurance 2023: SHANE McLAUGHLIN

McLaughlin has been at Wells Fargo for more than 12 years, including six as the bank’s region bank president for Northern Virginia. A Virginia Tech graduate, McLaughlin joined Wachovia as a licensed financial specialist in 2004 and became a Wells Fargo employee when that bank acquired Wachovia in 2008. In 2011, McLaughlin was given leadership […]

Law 2023: BENJAMIN J. LEIGH
Aug 30, 2023

Law 2023: BENJAMIN J. LEIGH

A native of Northern Virginia, Leigh works with business and real estate clients on transactions, planning and litigation. He graduated from the University of Richmond and earned his law degree cum laude from the same school. After clerking for then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia Harry L. Carrico, he practiced with Blankingship & […]

Finance | Insurance 2023: FREDRICK D. SCHAUFELD
Aug 30, 2023

Finance | Insurance 2023: FREDRICK D. SCHAUFELD

After graduating from Lehigh University in 1981, Schaufeld took a job selling extended warranties to auto dealers. When he learned his employer hadn’t actually taken out policies on all his clients, Schaufeld went into business for himself, working directly with the insurance company and dealers. That adventure led to Schaufeld launching N.E.W. Customer Services Companies […]

310 Va. companies make this year’s Inc. 5000 list
Aug 15, 2023

275 Va. companies make 2023 Inc. 5000 list

This year, 275 Virginia companies made the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies, which Inc. magazine released Tuesday. Ranking at No. 34 overall, Goldschmitt and Associates LLC was the highest-ranking Virginia companies on the list. Founded in 1998, the Leesburg-based information technology company specializes in computer programming, systems design a[...]

Mar 15, 2023

German electronics manufacturer to add 100 Va. jobs

Germany-based Zollner Elektronik AG will invest $18 million to expand in Virginia, including boosts to its electronics manufacturing operations in Danville as well at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Leesburg, adding 100 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday. The expansions include $14 million to expand manufacturing operations in the Danville-Pittsylvania County Regional Industria[...]

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May 17, 2022

Reston-based LookingGlass acquires Next5

Reston-based cyber intelligence firm LookingGlass Cyber Solutions Inc. will acquire Washington, D.C.-based technology consulting firm Next5, the company announced May 11. As part of the acquisition, Next5 CEO and founder Bryan Ware was named CEO of LookingGlass. He is replacing Gilman Louie as CEO, who has moved to the role of executive chairman, LookingGlass spokesperson […]

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Jul 19, 2021

Northam appoints members to newly created cannabis boards

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has appointed members to three newly created oversight boards for the legalization of recreational marijuana, his office announced today. On July 1, Virginia’s adult-use cannabis legislation changes began going into effect. This year, the General Assembly legalized possession of up to one ounce in public and home cultivation of up to […]

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