Noblis CFO to retire in 2022
Noblis Inc.’s senior vice president, chief financial and administrative officer and treasurer, Mark Simione, will retire July 8, 2022, the Reston-based not-for-profit federal contractor announced this week. Gary Sladic, the company’s vice president of finance and accounting, has been appointed deputy CFO and will assume the top role after Simione’s retirement. “As one of the […][...]
HII taps Northrop Grumman exec as new VP
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Wednesday it has hired Mike Aldinger as vice president of the live, virtual, constructive (LVC) training solutions department in its technical solutions division. Aldinger joins Newport News-based HII after 22 years at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. HII is the United States’ large[...]
Northrop Grumman commits $12.5M to Va. Tech Innovation Campus
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has pledged $12.5 million to support research and teaching in quantum information science and engineering, becoming a partner of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria. Virginia Tech officials announced the donation Wednesday mornin[...]
Reston tech company promotes CFO
Reston-based tech and network security company Electrosoft Services Inc. announced Tuesday that it promoted Justin Lapington to the role of chief financial officer. Lapington had been the company’s vice president of finance since September 2020. He led the implementation of a new resource planning system and expanded the f[...]
CACI wins $785M Army contract
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. won a potentially $785 million contract to support the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), the company announced Tuesday. Under the five-year single-award task order for Special Operations Forces Emerging Threats, Operations and Planning Support, CACI will provide expertise in integrated information warfare and electronic warfare solutions, training, […][...]
BWXT promotes chief strategy officer to CFO
Robb A. LeMasters will be promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) on Nov. 15. “We are extremely fortunate to have someone internal to BWXT who is fully prepared to assume the role of CFO,” BWXT President and CEO Rex Gev[...]
Huntington Ingalls Industries names president of cyber warfare group
Newport News-based Fortune 500 military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) named Grant Hagen president of its technical solutions division’s Cyber and Electronic Warfare business group, it announced Monday. “I’m confident in Grant’s vision to successfully lead our Cyber and EW team. With his exce[...]
Accenture Federal Services wins Greater Washington Government Contractor of the Year
The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce and Professional Services Council named Arlington-based Accenture Federal Services (AFS) the 2021 Greater Washington Government Contractor of the Year in the over $300 million category during their award ceremony last week. “I accept this honor on behalf of the 12,500 people who every [...]
Reston-based CACI acquires SA Photonics Inc. for $275M
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. entered into an agreement to acquire Los Gatos, California-based SA Photonics Inc., CACI announced Wednesday. Total purchase consideration is $275 million. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year. SA Photonics develops and deploys multi-domain photonics technologies for free-space optical (FSO) communications, an area […][...]
Fairfax-based ICF acquires health care data management company
Fairfax-based management consulting firm ICF International Inc. has acquired Rockville, Maryland-based data management and health care information technology provider ESAC Inc., or Enterprise Science and Computing, the company announced Tuesday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2006, ESAC’s 40-person team works on data coordination centers, big data integration and visualization, algorithm [&hell[...]
AT&T wins $182M contract with USAID
Oakton-based AT&T Public Sector and its FirstNet public safety wireless communications platform won a 10-year, $182 million task order from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), if all options are exercised, the company announced Tuesday. The agreement was awarded via the General Service Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract. USAID leads the government’s international development [...]
Leidos wins $531M Air Force task order
Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Leidos Holdings Inc. won a potentially $531 million task order from the Air Combat Command (ACC) Acquisition Management and Integration Center (AMIC), the company announced Monday. Under the single-award, firm-fixed price task order, Leidos will support ACC intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations, providing subject matter expertise, mitigation support, intelligence [&[...]