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Dec 10, 2024

Developer plans $3B data center in Appomattox County

A Connecticut developer plans to build a $3 billion data center on a 452-acre site in Appomattox County. AVAIO Digital Partners announced Tuesday it had signed an agreement with the Appomattox County Economic Development Authority to purchase the industrial site. “This project in Appomattox County exemplifies our strategy of e[...]

Xuesu Xiao, George Mason University RobotiXX Lab director, conducts a demonstration with his team’s robots at the Lab's new home in Mason's Fuse building. Photo by Courtney Mabeus-Brown
Dec 6, 2024

George Mason’s Fuse tech hub opens to public

On the third floor of George Mason University’s new state-of-the-art Fuse tech hub, robots jumped, begged, rolled over and offered a mechanical paw to shake Friday while a small drone hovered above. The endearing welcome by George Mason’s RobotiXX Lab robots offered a brief glimpse into the future for the group of academ[...]

A worker pins blue upholstery to a chair
Dec 5, 2024

Customer bankruptcy, severance charges push Hooker’s loss in Q3

Martinsville-based Hooker Furnishings reported consolidated net sales of $104.4 million in the third quarter ended Oct. 27, a decrease of $12.5 million, or 10.7%, from last year. It also reported an operating loss of $7.3 million, marking its third quarterly loss in a row. The company attributed ongoing low demand as a reason fo[...]

A DroneUp drone in flight. Photo courtesy DroneUp
Dec 5, 2024

FAA certification clears way for DroneUp to scale up

Virginia Beach-based drone delivery company DroneUp has received a Federal Aviation Administration certificate that will allow it to grow its delivery operations. On Tuesday, the company announcedi t received an FAA Part 119 air carrier certificate under Part 135. The certificate allows DroneUp to carry third-party property as a[...]

USS Green Bay (LPD 20) departed San Diego for forward deployment to the Navy's 7th Fleet in 2015. Photo by U.S. Navy/MCCS Donnie W. Ryan.
Dec 3, 2024

BAE Systems wins up to $238M Navy ship repair contract

Falls Church-based federal contractor BAE Systems Inc. has won a Navy contract worth up to $238.8 million to maintain, modernize and repair a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. The Department of Defense announced the $212 million firm-fixed-price contract award, which has options that would bring its cumulative va[...]

electronic warfare aircraft flys in sky
Dec 2, 2024

Navy awards RTX subsidiary $590.8M contract for electronic attack system

The Navy has awarded Raytheon, a subsidiary of Arlington County Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor RTX, a $590.8 million contract to produce nine Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) ship sets for the military branch’s EA-18 Growler electronic warfare aircraft and four more sets for the Royal Australian Air Force[...]

Nov 29, 2024

Engineering without boundaries

The surging demand for energy. The country’s aging, overwhelmed electrical grid. Threats of cyberattacks. The explosion of interest in — and confusion about — artificial intelligence. These real-life problems don’t know boundaries. Neither should the search for solutions, says Azim Eskandarian, dean of Virginia Commonwea[...]

Nov 26, 2024

Maximus announces feds have backed off $6.6B contract rebid

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to correct an error in the original version, which incorrectly stated that the contract, not the rebidding process, had been canceled. Tysons-based Maximus, a government contractor specializing in administrative support for Medicare and Medicaid, announced Tuesday that the U.S. Depart[...]

GDIT received two contracts worth a combined $330 million to provide training support services to the Army.
Nov 26, 2024

GDIT wins $330M in Army training support contracts

Falls Church federal contractor General Dynamics Information Technology has won two Army contracts totaling $330 million, the General Dynamics subsidiary announced Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command – Orlando awarded the task orders to GDIT in August as part of the $975 million Mission Training Complex Capabilities Supp[...]

Lines of code on a screen
Nov 26, 2024

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 governme[...]

A United Airlines Airbus A321neo. The plane is in flight, pictured against a clear sky, and bearing the United logo. Photo courtesy United Airlines
Nov 25, 2024

United begins building $16M training center in Fairfax County

United Airlines has started construction on a $16 million inflight training center in Fairfax County, the county’s economic development authority announced Monday. The 20,000-square-foot facility near the airline’s hub at Washington Dulles International Airport, which straddles the Fairfax and Loudoun county lines, is expect[...]

L to R: Stephen Meadows, Rick West, Dorcas Helfant-Browning and Steve DuBrueler. Photo courtesy Coldwell Banker Premier.
Nov 22, 2024

Coldwell Banker Premier acquires Hampton Roads Coldwell affiliate

Winchester-based Coldwell Banker Premier has acquired Virginia Beach-based Coldwell Banker Now, merging into a brokerage with a combined $600 million sales volume in 2023. Coldwell Banker Premier did not disclose financial details of the merger, which it announced Monday. The combined real estate company is the second-fastest gr[...]

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