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Kastle takes majority stake in Mich. security business
Kastle Systems, a Falls Church security solutions company, has taken a majority stake in i2G Systems, a Michigan-based electronic security service provider firm. Kastle did not clarify the amount of the investment. “Kastle’s strategic investment in i2G — a majority stake — is the largest investment in our company’s 50-year history,” Kastle CEO Haniel Lynn […]
NICOLE STUART
Top Guard Security President Nicole Stuart has one word to describe being a woman in her industry: lonely. “Because the security industry has always been male dominated, it was unquestionably more difficult to be accepted as a leader in the field,” Stuart says. But during the past three decades, she’s seen increases in the number […]
Sterling drone-jamming firm to be acquired by Taser maker Axon
Dedrone, a Sterling-based maker of drone-jamming and detection devices, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser manufacturer Axon Enterprise. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2024, the companies announced Monday, and terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dedrone’s portable gunlike jammers can thwart aerial drones […]
Peraton lands $2.8B IT defense contract
Reston-based technology contractor Peraton received a $2.8 billion Special Operations Forces IT Contract (SITEC) 3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance task order, the contractor announced Wednesday. The task order is to provide IT platform and network services to the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), including its component commands, its theater special operations commands, deployed for[...]
Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: STEPHEN TRUNDLE
Trundle has led Tysons-based home security tech company Alarm.com since May 2003. He was chief technology officer at MicroStrategy when Alarm.com was founded in 2000. MicroStrategy sold the spinoff security business to a group of investors in 2009, and Alarm.com went public in 2015. Alarm.com has since been expanding rapidly as the market for connected […]
Cybercrime Inc.
The maddening thing is, the person in accounting did exactly what they were supposed to do after receiving an email purportedly from their chief financial officer asking them to transfer tens of thousands of dollars to a different account. “They called the CFO to make sure the email was accurate,” got the OK and made […]
Ashland fire protection firm CEO retires
Ashland-based VSC Fire & Security (VSC) President Tommy Clements has assumed the added role of CEO, following former CEO Mike Meehan’s retirement, the fire protection and security company announced in mid-January. Meehan retired on Dec. 31, 2022. He will continue to serve on the board of directors as non-executive chairman. “The past 43 years have […]
Pavion acquires Mo. video security company
Chantilly-based technology firm Pavion, formerly Corbett Technology Solutions Inc. (CTSI), acquired Missouri-based Short Circuit Electronics Inc., Pavion announced last week. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Pavion is a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners. The acquisition is Pavion’s 11th since it was acquired by Wind Point in June[...]
Chesapeake Walmart shooting raises workplace violence concerns
UPDATED NOV. 27 Late Tuesday, a Chesapeake Walmart manager shot and killed six people, wounded at least six more and then killed himself, police said. According to police and media reports, all six of those slain were Walmart employees and two were killed in the break room. On Wednesday, Walmart’s corporate office released a statement […]
CTSI purchases NYC’s largest fire alarm company
Chantilly-based technology company Corbett Technology Solutions Inc. (CTSI) has acquired New York-based fire alarm company Firecom, CTSI announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CTSI is a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners. The Firecom deal is CTSI’s 10th acquisition since it was purchased by Wind Point in […]
M.C. Dean secures $250M Washington HQ Services contract
Tysons-based electrical engineering firm M.C. Dean Inc. won a $250 million contract with the Washington Headquarters Services in Arlington, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Thursday. Under the firm-fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity Pentagon Force Protection Agency Integrated Security Services Contract, M.C. Dean will provide a total system approach for providing integra[...]
Professional Services
RAND BLAZER PRESIDENT, APEX SYSTEMS LLC, FAIRFAX COUNTY Blazer has been with Apex Systems since 2007, after nearly 30 years with KPMG US LLC. The former U.S. Army captain has helped Apex, based in Glen Allen, grow into a firm with roughly 2,640 employees across the state. Apex and its parent company, ASGN Inc., together […]
