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Unanet acquires D.C. AI firm
Dulles-based software company Unanet has acquired Washington, D.C.-based GovPro AI, Unanet announced Friday. Unanet did not disclose financial details of the transaction, which it completed in November. Unanet provides project-based enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software solutions for government contractors and the architecture, engineering and construction indu[...]
Va. will hold 2 special elections to fill empty state Senate seats
Updated Nov. 10 Two Virginia State Senate seats are now open, with the election of state Sens. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun, to the U.S. House of Representatives this week, so the state will hold special elections to fill those seats in districts 10 and 32 ahead of the Virginia General Assembly’s new […]
Kuhn continues moving Loudoun projects forward
It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for Chuck Kuhn lately as he tries to rezone land for flex industrial use in Leesburg and Purcellville. The CEO of JK Moving Services and JK Land Holdings, Kuhn is one of Northern Virginia‘s most prominent data center developers and land conservationists, having purchased swathes of property in Loudoun […]
OpTech expanding Loudoun satellite plant
Optimum Technologies, a Sterling space flight hardware designer and manufacturer, plans to expand its Loudoun County satellite manufacturing plant, a project expected to create 40 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. Known as OpTech, the company will invest $999,000 in the expansion, according to the governor’s office. OpTech was founded in Virginia in 2015 and […]
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 […]
StoneSprings Hospital Center hires new CEO
Tammy L. Razmic is the new CEO of StoneSprings Hospital Center in Dulles, the first woman to hold the top title, HCA Virginia announced May 13. Razmic will start her new job at the Loudoun County hospital on May 20. Razmic was most recently chief operating officer at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. […]
Digital divide
In a relatively short time, Josh Thomas has seen the Prince William County district he represents in the Virginia House of Delegates transform from farmland and residential neighborhoods to massive buildings filled with the digital infrastructure that stores, processes and distributes huge amounts of information across the global internet, from cloud computing for businesses to […]
JLL: NoVa is still nation’s top data center market
Northern Virginia remains the country’s largest data center market, according to a report released Monday by real estate company JLL. The 581 megawatts of capacity leased by energized — or built-out — data centers in Northern Virginia for 2023 represented a new record, according to the JLL report. Data centers leased 184 MW in capacity […]
Old Dominion, new data
As available land for data centers in Loudoun County — home to Data Center Alley, the world’s largest concentration of data centers — has become scarcer and more expensive, the industry has expanded into other Northern Virginia localities and beyond. In Virginia, Prince William County has become the other heat map for the industry — […]
Northern Va. Year-in-Review: Back to the cookie jar
Data centers continued to dominate, define and, in some cases, shape the arc of Northern Virginia‘s 2023 economic story. Amazon Web Services cleared its hurdle in Stafford County, and although Prince William County‘s controversial Digital Gateway project faced major public backlash, supervisors ultimately voted to approve the 1,200-acre project’s rezoning applications in December[...]
DXC makes Raul Fernandez permanent pres., CEO
Raul Fernandez is now the permanent president and CEO of DXC Technology, the Ashburn-based Fortune 500 IT company announced Thursday. DXC appointed Fernandez interim president and CEO in December 2023, replacing Mike Salvino in two of his three roles. David Herzog, DXC’s lead independent director, replaced Salvino as chairman of the board. Fernandez has been […]
DXC replaces CEO, Chair Mike Salvino
DXC Technology has replaced its chairman, president and CEO, Mike Salvino, with interim President and CEO Raul Fernandez, the Ashburn-based Fortune 500 IT company announced Wednesday. Salvino had served as president and CEO since 2019 and as chairman since 2022. He will transition from his role as chairman effective immediately, and remain in an advisory […]
