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Va. Beach manufacturing company investing $15.8M in expansion
Virginia Beach-based Acoustical Sheetmetal Co. (ASC) will invest $15.8 million to expand its operations, adding a 100,000- square-foot facility and creating 200 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday. ASC manufactures sound-reducing and weather-protective enclosures for onsite power generation equipment, such as control rooms, house generators, pumps, compressors, switchgear and HVAC equipment. “Advanced manufacturing contin[...]
Virginia Space launches rocket for first U.S. Space Force mission
The Minotaur IV rocket, carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), launched its first U.S. Space Force (USSF) mission from the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority’s (Virginia Space) Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Eastern Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday. “The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport continues to serve the […][...]
Va. Lottery Board advances Portsmouth casino
The city of Portsmouth announced Wednesday that its preferred casino gaming partner, Chicago-based Rush Street Gaming, has been pre-certified by the Virginia Lottery Board to operate a Virginia casino. The pre-certification is necessary to move forward with a local gaming referendum in November. “We are grateful for the Lottery Board’s diligence on this matter and […]
Perspecta Labs lands $37M defense contract
Chantilly-based federal contractor Perspecta Inc. announced Tuesday that its research arm, Perspecta Labs, has landed a $37 million contract to develop network hardware to speed up complex computing applications for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Perspecta will work on DARPA’s Fast Network Interface Cards program with a goal to accelerate — by 100 […]
Engineering consulting firm names Richmond office executive
Pittsburgh-based engineering consulting firm Michael Baker International announced Tuesday that Paul Baginski has been named as office executive for its Richmond location. Baginski was most recently CEO and chief marketing officer for engineering and tech company PAB Consulting Inc. In his new role, he will oversee federal, st[...]
SCHEV announces council appointments, leadership
Marge Connelly will chair the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. SCHEV is the state’s coordinating agency for higher education. Connelly was appointed to the council in 2014 and reappointed in 2018. She currently serves on the board of directors at Norfolk-based PRA Gr[...]
Primary care practices must be reinvented, research paper says
Primary care practices were not prepared for the pandemic and must reinvent the ways in which they do business, according to a paper authored by several Virginia doctors published Monday in the Annals of Family Medicine. Dr. Alex Krist, a Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Population […]
Amherst County creates small business relief fund
Amherst County launched a grant program for small businesses suffering economic downturns due to the coronavirus epidemic, the county announced Tuesday. Amherst supervisors designated $300,000 in federal CARES Act funding, which will be administered by the county’s Economic Development Authority. Applications are being accepted now for locally owned, for-profit businesses in the county for payroll, […][...]
Dewberry names operating unit manager
Fairfax-based engineering consulting firm Dewberry announced Tuesday that Robert Victor will lead its mid-Atlantic business as an operating unit manager. Victor was most recently the transportation group lead with design company HDR, where he oversaw Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Virginia business. In his new role, he[...]
Governor: State will step up enforcement of masks, distancing
Gov. Ralph Northam said that because the number of daily COVID-19 cases has shot up more than five-fold in the Hampton Roads region in the past month, he will increase social distancing and mask enforcement at businesses, starting immediately. Daily positive cases have gone from an average of 60 a day to 346 a day […]
American Woodmark overhauls leadership after internal investigation
Winchester-based cabinetry manufacturer American Woodmark Corp. announced Tuesday a leadership overhaul following an internal investigation of R. Perry Campbell, senior vice president of sales and commercial operations, which found he had violated company policy and values. President and CEO S. Cary Dunston has retired and res[...]
Chantilly digital ad agency hires CTO
John Schneider has been hired as chief technology officer at Whereoware, a Chantilly-based digital advertising and marketing agency, the company announced Tuesday. He has more than 20 years’ experience in technology leadership, including at SapientNitro and Rightpoint, and has developed customer experience projects for bra[...]
