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16 Va. companies receive LGBTQ inclusivity awards
Sixteen Virginia companies received the top score in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index, released in November. Nationally, more than 1,384 companies, including 378 Fortune 500 companies, participated in the organization’s 21st Corporate Equality Index (CEI) survey. Companies that do not[...]
Parsons lands $250M classified contract
Parsons won a classified federal contract valued at more than $250 million, the Chantilly-based Fortune 1000 defense contractor announced Tuesday. “This award represents a critical task that the corporation and its acquired companies have been performing for over a decade,” according to a Parsons news release. The contract has a base period of one year […]
SAIC reorganizes C-suite, with changes effective in Feb.
Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) announced Monday that it is reorganizing its business, leading to four executives’ promotions and the departure of two others, effective Feb. 2, 2024. SAIC’s defense and civilian sector and national security and space sector will be replaced by five new business groups: Army, Navy, Air […][...]
Noblis CIO set to retire in April 2024
Gail Hogan, Noblis’ chief information officer and vice president, will retire after 44 years, the not-for-profit federal contractor announced Thursday. Her last day is April 5, 2024. In addition to overseeing the company’s IT workforce, Hogan assumed leadership for Noblis’ facilities, real estate and corporate asset management. Noblis has started an executive search for the […]
RTX’s Pratt & Whitney division receives $701M aircraft contract
Arlington-based defense giant RTX’s Pratt & Whitney aerospace division in Connecticut will provide sustainment and other support services for propulsion systems on the F-35 fighter jet under a $701 million modification to a Navy contract. Pratt & Whitney will provide program management, propulsion integration, engi[...]
Boeing receives $2.3B Air Force contract for tanker aircraft
Arlington County-based Boeing has received a $2.3 billion contract to build 15 more KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the Air Force. The Pentagon announced the award for production lot 10 of the tankers Tuesday. Boeing has 153 of the aerial refuelers under contract globally and has delivered 76 to the Air Force and two to Japan, [&hell[...]
HII’s Mission Technologies names new CIO
Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries has named Marc Sosa as chief information officer for its McLean-based Mission Technologies division, the Fortune 500 contractor announced Thursday. Sosa will be responsible for all aspects of information technology, including guiding the division’s day-to-day leadership of inf[...]
HII division to boost intel sharing for Five Eyes alliance
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ McLean-based Mission Technologies division has received a three-year contract to provide information sharing capabilities between the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. Newport News-based HII announced the award Nov. 21; information about the award was not disclosed. The Pegasus contract is administrated by the Secretary of the Air Force’s Concept, Development and Management Mission […][...]
Electra’s hybrid prototype aircraft takes first flight
This story was updated Dec. 1. A Manassas aircraft manufacturer that’s developing an electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft logged a significant milestone Nov. 19 when it completed its first hybrid-electric flight. Electra’s EL-2 Goldfinch took off from Manassas Regional Airport and flew 23 minutes, reac[...]
Northrop Grumman to establish $200M Waynesboro facility
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman will invest more than $200 million to establish an advanced electronics manufacturing and testing facility in Waynesboro, creating an estimated 300 jobs over the next five years, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. “Northrop Grumman’s expanding Virgini[...]
McLean tech firm Pangiam to sell to BigBear.ai for $70M
Columbia, Maryland-based BigBear.ai Holdings is acquiring Pangiam Intermediate Holdings, a McLean-based facial recognition and biometrics solutions provider for the trade, travel and digital identification industries, in a $70 million, all-stock deal, BigBear announced Monday. The move will combine Pangiam’s technologies with BigBear.ai’s computer vision capabilities and allow BigBear.ai to expand its customer base and offer[...]
Newport News Shipbuilding expands to Norfolk
With the largest workload it’s had in four decades, Newport News Shipbuilding has had to get creative about how to use the limited footprint at its shipyard in Newport News. So when an opportunity to set up a second campus not far away — on the other side of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, in Norfolk […]
