Leidos names new CFO
Longtime Leidos Holdings Inc. executive Christopher Cage has been named as the Reston-based federal contractor‘s new chief financial officer. Cage will begin his role July 5. He currently serves as senior vice president and chief accounting officer for the Fortune 500 company, where he’s worked since 1999. Cage was director of financial planning and analysis […]
Raytheon Intelligence & Space receives $318M TSA contract
Arlington-based Raytheon Intelligence & Space will expand its deployment of checked baggage screening equipment to all federally managed airports nationwide under a five-year, $318 million contract with the Transportation Security Administration. A subsidiary of Massachusetts-based Raytheon Technologies Corp., Raytheon Intelligence & Space previously had a contract to install and/or upgrade checked baggage screening equipment i[...]
Reston-based Maximus gets $951M contract for national COVID hotline
Reston-based government services company Maximus has received a potential $951 million contract to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 national surge support and vaccine assistance hotline. In the early months of the pandemic, Maximus staffed a 500-person CDC call center to respond to call and emails from health care providers and the […]
Northrop Grumman receives $959M defense contract
Falls Church-based aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. was awarded a $959.1 million contract Friday from the U.S. Army for production of infrared countermeasures, which protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles. The work is to be completed by April 29, 2026. The contract comes on the heels of a $2.3 billion defense contract Northrop Grumman […]
Noblis acquires McKean Defense
Reston-based not-for-profit federal contractor Noblis announced Monday that it has acquired Philadelphia-based McKean Defense and its affiliates, Mikros Systems and Cabrillo Technologies. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed. Formerly an employee-owned defense contractor specializing in surface ship readiness for the U.S. Navy, McKean Defense is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Noblis. Glenn […][...]
Valve manufacturer announces $1.9M expansion in Norfolk
Norfolk-based Dante Valve Co. will expand its operations with a $1.9 million investment, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced today. The family-owned business, which marked its 60th anniversary last year, is an international manufacturer and distributor of pressure-relief valves and related products — primarily for submarines, aircraft carriers and other naval vessels. The U.S. Navy is […][...]
Two Virginia companies make 2021 LinkedIn Top Companies list
Virginia-based Fortune 500 companies Northrop Grumman Corp. and Capital One Financial Corp. are among the 50 best workplaces to grow your career, according to LinkedIn’s Top Companies List, released this week. Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman, which ranks No. 32 on the LinkedIn Top Companies list, was cited for a variety of mentorship programs for women. […]
Ashburn-based CIS acquired by Indiana private equity firm
On April 20, Indianapolis-based private equity firm Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Co. Inc. (HKW) announced that it had acquired Ashburn-based technology company CIS Secure Computing Inc. (CIS) from Oklahoma City-based Acorn Growth Cos. LLC. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CIS is a provider of secure and customized communications technologies that help […]
SAIC plans to purchase Seattle AI company
Reston-based Fortune 500 government and defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) plans to acquire Koverse, a Seattle data management company focused on artificial intelligence, SAIC announced Monday. The companies have entered into a definitive agreement, and financial terms of the deal were not disclos[...]
Chantilly-based VTG awarded $116M defense contract
Chantilly-based engineering firm VTG announced Tuesday that it has been awarded a $116 million, five-year contract from the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC-PAC) to provide C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) engineering and production services to the center’s Network Integration Engineering Facility (NIEF). The NIWC-PAC NIEF, located at San Diego’s[...]
Technica Corp. wins $38M FBI contract
Sterling-based Technica Corp. announced Monday it has received a $38 million contract from the FBI to support the agency’s data, optical and communications networks over the next four-and-a-half years if all options are exercised. The network services and engineering support task order was awarded from the FBI’s IT Supplies and Support Services contract for the […]
Maximus acquires Houston veterans services company for $1.4B
Reston-based government services company Maximus announced Wednesday that it will purchase the parent company of Veterans Evaluation Services Inc. (VES) for $1.4 billion. Based in Houston, VES is a privately held company that serves the federal government, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, as a provider of medical disability examinations to determine veterans’ eligibility […][...]