Virginia Beach-based real estate developer The Breeden Co. announced Wednesday it has hired Christine Gustafson as its corporate marketing and public relations director.
With more than 15 years of experience in marketing, Gustafson was most recently the marketing director and print project manager for Chesapeake-based Jones Printing Service Inc., where she worked out of the company’s Miami office. In her new role, she will be responsible for marketing strategies to drive growth for The Breeden Co.
“I am honored to be a part of a company with the standard that Breeden sets,” Gustafson said in a statement. “I truly believe Breeden is the best in the industry. Along with the great management teams, I look forward to strategically positioning the company for continued growth throughout the East Coast.”
Gustafson also previously served as director of marketing for Pilot Media (The Virginian-Pilot) and worked with ING Realty and Trammell Crow. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Virginia Tech.
Founded more than 55 years ago, The Breeden Co. provides construction, development and management services. Its current portfolio includes more than 15,000 apartments, more than 2 million square feet of office and rental space and 1,750 residential homes.
The board of directors for Riverside Medical Group (RMG), the medical group for the Newport News-based Riverside Health System, announced Wednesday it has elected Dr. David Jones as the group’s new chairman. Jones will replace Dr. Robert Harding, who served for six terms, the maximum allowed under the group’s bylaws.
Jones, a board-certified physician in internal, pulmonary and critical care medicine, will lead the 600-member group of physicians and advanced practice providers across 132 Hampton Roads locations. The medical group serves more than 485,000 patients.
Jones joined RMG and its board in 2010 and since 1994 has been on staff at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock, where he has served as intensive care unit director and medical affairs vice president. He also has served as the Eastern Shore Service line chief and as chief medical officer. Jones has also been an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine since 2003.
“Health care is a profession where every minute of every day, you have the opportunity and privilege to positively impact someone as part of your job,” Jones said in a statement. “As health care providers, we want to help people, and our profession gives us the vehicle to do just that.”
Jones earned his bachelor’s degree from Hampden-Sydney College and his medical degree from the U.Va. School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
McLean-based computer and network security company Kryptowire LLC won a four-year, $7.3 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conduct research and development services for 5G mobile network security, according to a Department of Defense statement released Tuesday.
Under the contract, Kryptowire will work under DARPA’s Open, Programmable, Secure 5G (OPS-5G) initiative, which seeks to establish an open-source system to support next-generation networks, such as 6G communications, according to the DoD.
The goal of the OPS-5G effort is to drive research into standards-compliant 5G network stacks, according to DARPA.
The agency received 40 bids for the contract and will obligate $883,977 in fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of the award, according to the DoD.
Work on the contract will take place in Virginia through September 2024.
Founded in 2011, Kryptowire provides automated military-grade software assurance and compliance testing technologies to both private and public organizations.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Accenture Federal Services (AFS), an Arlington-based subsidiary of Irish Fortune Global 500 company Accenture, a potential five-year, $89.5 million contract to establish a cloud-based common infrastructure for the branch’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, the company announced Wednesday.
Under the contract, AFS will manage the existing information technology infrastructure and work to establish a cloud-based platform to host functions including financial management, human resources, payroll and logistics.
“We are excited to work with the Air Force to deliver new capabilities in the cloud, positioning the Air Force for future adoption of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies,” Vince Vlasho, who leads AFS’s Defense Sector portfolio, said in a statement. “We will leverage our significant experience migrating ERP systems to the cloud to help the Air Force achieve greater value.”
The goal of the contract is to help the Air Force improve the flexibility of its ERP systems, reduce redundant infrastructure and commodity services and strengthen IT environment security.
AFS has clients within the national security, federal health, military and civilian services industries. Last year, Accenture reported more than $40 billion in revenue.
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) announced Wednesday that 12 companies were accepted into its two-year Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) program, which helps companies work on international exporting growth strategies.
The VALET program helps Virginia companies to establish domestic operations for exports and encourages using international exporting as a growth strategy. During the two-year program, businesses learn international sales plan development services through trainings from international service providers, meetings with potential partners, educational events and market research. There are currently 45 companies participating in the VALET program. Since the program’s inception, 359 Virginia companies have been accepted to the program.
The companies joining the VALET program include:
Allied Brass, Louisa County
American Aerospace Technologies Inc., Loudoun County
ENSCO National Security Solutions, Fairfax County
Federal Pacific, Bristol
McAirlaid’s, Franklin County
Morooka America LLC, Hanover County
PaneraTech, Fairfax County
Patriot3, Spotsylvania County
Phoenix Group, Chesapeake
Phoenix Integration, Montgomery County
Titan, Loudoun County
TMEIC Corp., Roanoke County
Virginia exports more $36 billion in goods and services annually, supporting more than 257,000 jobs and generating $2 billion in annual tax revenue, according to VEDP.
“VEDP is committed to working with Virginia businesses to expand their international sales, thereby increasing trade and trade-related jobs in the commonwealth, and we welcome these companies into the VALET program,” VEDP President and CEO Stephen Moret said in a statement. “During this time when businesses need growth opportunities more than ever, we are proud to have a proven program like VALET available to propel Virginia exporters to compete in the global marketplace.”
Arlington-based software company Ostendio Inc. announced Tuesday that it has hired Marc Bandini as president and chief operations officer.
With more than 20 years of experience, Bandini was most recently the president of the Americas for cloud provider Medius. In his new role, he will work closely with Ostendio Founder, CEO and Chairman Grant Elliott and will be responsible for day-to-day operations.
“Marc’s proven track record of scaling operations in line with rapid growth makes him the ideal person for this role,” Elliott said in a statement. “As well as his valuable experience, he also shares our view on organizational culture and I believe he will be an asset to our company.”
Bandini earned his bachelor’s degree in business and psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Founded in 2013, Ostendio offers an integrated risk management platform. Its investors include Blue Ventures Investors, the Center for Innovative Technology and Riverbend Capital.
Herndon-based information technology company Iron Bow Technologies LLC and Gainesville-based computer manufacturer NCS Technologies Inc. secured spots on a $5 billion U.S. Army contract to provide technology products to the Army Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) office.
“The CHESS team is excited about seeing the years of effort finally coming to fruition,” CHESS Product Lead Wayne Sok said in a statement. “I’m very proud of the work that the CHESS team … has done to award this contract vehicle. Industry has also invested a lot of time and effort, so I know the awardees are eager to get started supporting warfighters.”
Under the Army Desktop and Mobile Computing-3 (ADMC-3) contract, the companies (also including Dell Federal Systems LP, Sterling Computers Corp., Strategic Communications LLC, Blue Tech Inc., HPI Federal LLC and ACE Computers) will provide integrated desktop computers, tablets, notebooks, workstations, electronic displays, printers, thin clients and multifunction devices. Iron Bow Technologies provides IT services to the Army and other Department of Defense clients.
“We are honored to be among the companies awarded ADMC-3 to provide end user devices and support services to warfighters as they connect to the Army’s Network anytime anywhere,” James Ebeler, Iron Bow Technologies’ DoD chief technology officer, said in a statement. “We have a long history of serving the Army and DoD through a variety of contract vehicles and are confident we will continue to be a valued partner.”
Work on the contract is expected to take 10 years.
Haizhou Hu was preparing to board a flight to China at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport when a routine screening uncovered that the U.Va. scientist was allegedly in possession of bio-inspired research simulation software code that he was not authorized to have. Hu, a Chinese national, was charged with accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorization to obtain information from a protected computer and theft of trade secrets, according to The Associated Press.
In an op-ed published by Fox News, Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), wrote, “The security and integrity of America’s research enterprise … are being undermined by some researchers and foreign governments that are robbing the American people of federal research dollars, new discoveries and innovations.”
During his talk Thursday, Droegemeier will discuss the importance of security and the work being done to address foreign government interference in the U.S. research enterprise.
The webinar, scheduled Thursday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. and hosted by VCU, is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Several Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland and North Carolina institutions will also participate.
The event is open only to university faculty, staff and students, but readers may contact Jordan Hunter (OSTP) or A.J. Hostetler (VCU) for more information.
Under the $13.3 billion engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program awarded Tuesday, Northrop Grumman will perform weapon system design, qualification, test and evaluation and nuclear certification to replace and modernize the country’s current Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) nuclear weapon system.
“Our nation is facing a rapidly evolving threat environment and protecting our citizens with a modern strategic deterrent capability has never been more critical,” Northrop Grumman Chairman, CEO and President Kathy Warden said in a statement. “With more than 65 years of technical leadership on every ICBM system, our nationwide team is honored and committed to continuing our partnership with the U.S. Air Force to deliver a safe, secure and effective system that will contribute to global stability for years to come.”
Following the EMD phase, Northrop Grumman will then begin producing and delivering a modern and fully integrated ground-based ICBM nuclear weapon system by 2029.
Northrop Grumman for more than a year has been the sole competitor for the contract after The Boeing Co. announced in July 2019 that it had withdrawn its proposal. In 2018, Northrop Grumman acquired rocket motor producer Orbital ATK, which Boeing defense CEO said caused the Air Force to “take no steps to mitigate Northrop’s anticompetitive and inherently unfair cost, resource and integration advantages” related to solid rocket motors, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post.
Northrop Grumman has also formed a team of more than 10,000 people to help build the modernized weapons system infrastructure for the new missiles. Team members include companies in the defense, engineering and construction industries such as Aerojet Rocketdyne, Bechtel Corp., Clark Construction, Collins Aerospace, General Dynamics, HDT Global, Honeywell, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin and Textron Systems, along with other small- and medium-sized businesses.
Work on the contract will be performed in Roy and Promontory, Utah; Huntsville and Montgomery, Alabama; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Bellevue, Nebraska; San Diego and Woodland Hills, California; Chandler Arizona; Annapolis Junction, Maryland; and other nationwide offices.
Northrop Grumman employs more than 90,000 people and reported $33.8 billion in 2019 revenue.
McLean-based Gannett Co. Inc., the nation’s largest newspaper publisher, announced Tuesday it has hired Mayur Gupta as its chief marketing and strategy officer, a newly created position.
Gupta most recently served as chief marketing officer at meal preparation company Freshly and, before that, was global vice president for growth and marketing for music streaming company Spotify. In his new role, he will focus on growing the company’s subscription business for its audience of nearly 175 million in the U.S. and United Kingdom.
In October 2019, Gupta joined Gannett’s board of directors, which has begun a search process for replacing him on the board.
“Mayur has a strong track record as a growth and content marketer at big CPGs like Kimberly-Clark as well as disruptive start-ups like Spotify and Freshly that have reshaped their categories,” Gannett Chairman and CEO Michael Reed said in a statement. “Mayur has already played a key role on our board over the past year and we are excited to leverage his unique capabilities to continue to transform our business model and drive purpose-driven growth.”
Gannett announced in early April that it was negotiating with its vendors, creditors and pension regulators in order to preserve the company’s liquidity. It was noticeably not on the Fortune 1000 list released in mid-May.
The company also announced mass layoffs, furlough and pay cuts in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The owner of USA Today, Gannett has a portfolio of 261 local daily newspapers in 46 states and Guam, including the Arizona Republic, the Des Moines Register and the Burlington Free Press.
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