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DroneUp inks deal with Walmart, acquires AirMap
Virginia Beach-based DroneUp LLC is making moves at the end of the year, with a new partnership with Walmart Inc. and the acquisition of Santa Monica, California-based AirMap Inc., a company specializing in air traffic management software for drones. DroneUp and Walmart will have the first multisite commercial drone delivery ope[...]
Appian CFO to retire in 2022
Mark Lynch, Appian Corp.’s chief financial officer, will retire effective March 31, 2022, the McLean-based cloud computing company announced Friday. Appian will fill the position through an executive search process. Mark Matheos, the company’s senior vice president and global controller, will be promoted to chief acc[...]
The Carlyle Group to acquire CNSI
Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group announced Thursday that affiliated funds under its management have agreed to acquire McLean-based health information technology provider CNSI. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in December, were not disclosed. Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners currently owns CNSI. “We believe CNSI […][...]
MicroStrategy buys $414M more bitcoin in Q4
MicroStrategy Inc. bought $414.4 million worth of bitcoin — about 7,002 units — from Oct. 1 to Nov. 29, the Tysons-based business software company reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The company now holds about 121,044 bitcoins, for which it paid $3.57 billion total. The average purchase price [...]
3Pillar Global promotes COO, chief people officer
Fairfax-based product lifecycle management company 3Pillar Global Inc. announced two promotions Tuesday: David Sawatzky to chief operating officer and Jamie Whitacre to chief people officer. Sawatzky was previously the company’s chief delivery officer. Whitacre served as the senior vice president of talent. “Dave and Jam[...]
BlueHalo acquires Md. software company
Arlington-based tech contractor BlueHalo announced Tuesday that it had acquired Annapolis Junction, Maryland-based software solutions provider Asymmetrik Ltd. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2008, Asymmetrik develops software solutions and technology tools to enable the intelligence community’s programs. It delivers open-source intelligence technologies to enable the collection and analysis of p[...]
GDIT wins $829M Defense Intelligence Agency contract
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. (GDIT) won an $829 million contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday. Under the fixed-price, award-fee task order, the Fortune 500 General Dynamics Corp. subsidiary will provide all IT help desk services for[...]
Amazon has hired 3,500 HQ2 workers
Amazon.com Inc. has hired 3,500 of its 25,000 planned workers for HQ2, the tech behemoth’s $2.5 billion East Coast headquarters in Arlington. Meanwhile, construction on the two office towers for HQ2’s first phase, Metropolitan Park, is more than halfway complete, company representatives said during a site tour Wednes[...]
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[...]
MicroStrategy bought $420M more bitcoin in Q3
MicroStrategy Inc. purchased nearly 9,000 additional bitcoins in the third quarter for almost $420 million, according to a quarterly report the Tysons-based business software company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 28. As of Sept. 30, MicroStrategy’s holds a total of 114,042 bitcoins, valued at $7.5 billion based on a price […]
GTT Communications files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
McLean-based telecommunications company GTT Communications Inc. announced this week that the company and some subsidiaries had filed prepackaged Chapter 11 cases. The close of GTT’s estimated $2.15 billion sale of its infrastructure division to Miami-based I Squared Capital on Sept. 16 allowed GTT to move forward on its bankruptcy cases, which it and some subsidiaries […]
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[...]
