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Williamsburg engineering company acquired by Kansas firm
Williamsburg-based TAM Consultants Inc. has been acquired by Kansas engineering firm Terracon Consultants Inc. Founded in 2002, TAM is a 15-person professional services firm that provides building consulting and facilities engineering services for public- and private-sector clients throughout the mid-Atlantic region. TAM has offices in Richmond, Williamsburg and Newport News. TAM’s employees are now part […][...]
Amazon now a top 10 employer in three NoVa counties
Amazon.com Inc. became one of the top 10 employers in three Northern Virginia counties in 2020, according to fiscal year financial reports in Arlington, Fairfax and Loudoun. In Fairfax, the e-tail giant ranks seventh among top principal employers, making up 1.17% of all county employees, which number between 5,000 and 9,999. In [...]
3Pillar acquires Ariz.-based software company
Fairfax-based product lifecycle management company 3Pillar Global Inc. announced Tuesday it has acquired Tempe, Arizona-based software development company Tiempo Development. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Tiempo Development, which employs more than 400 people, also has three digital delivery centers in Mexico, which will expand 3Pillar’s footprint and offerings of data science, analytics, […][...]
Unmanned aircraft company creating 249 jobs in Warren County
Silent Falcon UAS, an unmanned aircraft systems service provider and equipment manufacturer, will invest $6 million to locate its new East Coast headquarters for research development and manufacturing at the Front Royal-Warren County Airport, creating 249 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. Founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Silent Falcon UAS manufactures patent-pending unmanned aircraft systems […][...]
Northrop Grumman to sell IT, mission support biz for $3.4B
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. announced late Monday that it will sell its federal IT and mission support services business for $3.4 billion in cash to Herndon-based national security contractor Peraton, a Veritas Capital affiliate. This year, the Northrop Grumman business unit is expected to generate approximately $2.3 billion […]
Dewberry to provide advanced mapping of Alaska
Fairfax-based engineering consulting firm Dewberry announced Friday it has won a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) task order to complete updated hydrography (maps of bodies of water) for the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) for approximately 9,880 square miles in northern Alaska. An amount for the task order was not disclosed. From 2010 to 2020, Dewberry mapped […]
Accenture Federal Services secures blanket purchase agreement with U.S. courts
The Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) awarded Arlington-based Accenture Federal Services (AFS) a five-year blanket purchase agreement to modernize the client case-management system of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services (PPS) system, the company announced Monday. PPS works to carry out probation and pretrial service functions in U.S. district courts. Under the […][...]
Tysons IT company acquires Fla.-based tech training company
Tysons-based information technology company By Light Professional IT Services LLC announced Friday it has acquired Port Orange, Florida-based technology training company Raydon. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2002, By Light provides engineering, cyber, modeling and simulation services to defense and government agencies, employing more than 2,000 people. Raydon, which formed […][...]
Carly Fiorina elected chair of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation board
Former GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has been selected as chair of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s board of trustees. The former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company and made an unsuccessful bid for the 2016 GOP nomination for president. Fiorina has[...]
NuWave Solutions acquires San Diego-based analytics company
McLean-based federal technology contractor NuWave Solutions LLC announced Thursday it has acquired BigBear Inc., a cloud-based big data analytics firm in San Diego. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This marks NuWave’s first acquisition since it was acquired by Boca Raton, Florida-based private equity firm AE Industrial Partners LP in June. Founded in […]
ManTech wins $273M Homeland Security contract
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Herndon-based ManTech, a technology contractor for U.S. defense, intelligence and federal civilian agencies, a five-year, $273 million contract to provide business intelligence support services for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the company announced Thursday. Under the contract, ManTech will perform services that prevent crime and terrorism, according to […][...]
IronArch Technology names chief strategy, growth officer
McLean-based federal consulting firm IronArch Technology LLC announced Tuesday it has hired Cameron Hogan as chief strategy and growth officer. With more than 30 years of experience, Hogan was most recently the chief strategy officer at Norfolk-based consultancy Falconwood Inc. In his new role, he will focus on corporate growth [...]
