M.C. Dean wins $158M contract from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Tysons-based electrical engineering firm M.C. Dean Inc. won a $158.77 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to upgrade a controls system at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Under the fixed-price contract, M.C. Dean will upgrade and refurbish the power-generation plant and supervisory control and data […]
DXC Technology shifts CIO to COO
Tysons-based Fortune 500 IT company DXC Technology promoted Chris Drumgoole to executive vice president and chief operating officer, it announced Thursday, when Drumgoole assumed the role. “Going forward as COO, my focus will be to further enhance the productivity of our workforce, simplify and streamline operations and processes, and ensure clarity and accountability while meeting […]
LMI announces Lisa Disbrow will be next chair of the board
Lisa Disbrow will be the next chair of the board for Tysons-based government and defense contractor LMI, succeeding Ken Krieg, LMI announced Monday. Disbrow is currently the audit and finance committee chair, a position she has held since November 2019. She joined the board in 2018. In 2017, Disbrow retired from her role as Under […]
LMI acquires Falls Church solutions consulting company
Tysons-based government and defense contractor LMI acquired Falls Church-based Suntiva, it announced Tuesday. Suntiva is a technology-enabled solutions company focused in the public health and defense markets. The acquisition provides LMI with new customer access, particularly the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Defense Informat[...]
Guidehouse hires chief culture, inclusion and diversity officer
Guidehouse, a Fairfax County-based global consulting firm, has hired Dominica Groom Williams as the company’s head chief culture, inclusion and diversity officer. Groom Williams, who has more than a decade of human capital, diversity, inclusion, strategy development and leadership experience, will begin her new role June 7. She will be responsible for heading the company’s […]
M.C. Dean announces phase 2 of $25M expansion in Caroline
Tysons-based M.C. Dean Inc. announced Monday it has entered the second phase of its $25 million expansion, breaking ground on an 84,000-square-foot modular manufacturing and systems integration facility at its Center for Innovation and Industry in Caroline County. The electrical engineering firm designs, builds, operates and maintains cyberphysical solutions for clients including local, state and [...]
Guidehouse taps Fairfax for global HQ, creating 900 jobs
Guidehouse, a management consulting company with clients around the world, will establish its global headquarters in Fairfax County, producing more than 900 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday. The company will invest $12.7 million in a campus at 1676 International Drive in McLean, where 1,550 people will work at full capacity. Virginia competed with Maryland […]
SpaceLink establishes HQ in Tysons
Satellite telecommunications company SpaceLink, a subsidiary of Australian aerospace and defense contractor Electro Optic Systems, has established its headquarters in Tysons. SpaceLink is building a space relay network of satellites in medium Earth orbit that will provide secure, continuous, high-bandwidth communications between its clients’ low Earth orbit spacecraft and the ground. Clients[...]
Omnispace, Lockheed Martin join forces for space-based 5G network
Tysons-based satellite telecommunications company Omnispace LLC has entered into a strategic alliance with Lockheed Martin Corp. to explore jointly developing a space-based 5G global network. “Omnispace is fully committed to the vision of creating a new global communications platform that powers 5G connectivity directly to mobile devices from space,” Omnispace President and CEO Ram Vis[...]
Tysons risk analytics firm announces two acquisitions
Tysons-based risk analytics firm Qomplx Inc. announced Wednesday it would acquire Huntsville, Alabama-based cyber intelligence firm Sentar and London-based insurance software modeling firm RPC Tyche. Financial terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Qomplx announced earlier this month its plan to go public through a merger agreement with Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisit[...]
Tysons analytics firm Qomplx plans to go public
Tysons-based risk analytics firm Qomplx Inc. announced Monday its plan to go public through a merger agreement with Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company backed by Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO of online mattress retailer Casper Sleep Inc. The deal values Qomplx, which will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under […]
MicroStrategy buys $1B+ in bitcoin
Tysons-based business software company MicroStrategy Inc. announced Wednesday that it has purchased $1.026 billion of additional bitcoin, its largest single bitcoin purchase since it began acquiring the cryptocurrency last August. With this latest transaction, MicroStrategy’s total bitcoin holdings are worth approximately $4.5 billion, valued at current rates of $49,884 per bitcoin. The ente[...]