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SAIC announces restructuring, longtime executive retirement
Reston-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) announced Thursday it would restructure itself along two business lines as Jim Scanlon, a longtime leader with the company and current head of SAIC’s Defense Systems Group, prepares to retire in January. Starting in the fiscal year [...]
Trustar Bank names senior adviser
Great Falls-based Trustar Bank announced Tuesday it has hired Samuel A. Schreiber as senior adviser. Schreiber was most recently president of Chain Bridge Bank, but spent 25 years of his career with Wachovia as well as Wells Fargo after their 2008 merger. He was Washington, D.C., president and mid-Atlantic regional president wit[...]
Booz Allen Foundation doles out $1M to 21 COVID-related projects
McLean-based global management consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. announced Thursday that its foundation has awarded $1 million through the Innovation Fund it launched in May that was open to nonprofits, small businesses and individuals who had ideas for projects that could help solve COVID-19-related social problems. The 21 winners received between $10,000 and $100,000 […]
Dewberry names VP, business development director
Fairfax-based engineering consulting firm Dewberry announced Wednesday it has hired Jay Harper as vice president and business development director in the company’s federal group. With more than 15 years of experience, Harper is the former senior adviser to the administrator with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [...]
Reston tech company names VP civilian programs
Reston-based tech and network security company Electrosoft announced Wednesday it has hired Teena Lavu as vice president of civilian programs. With more than 20 years of government contracting experience, Lavu was most recently the senior director of civilian services with NTT Data Services LLC. In her new role, she will overs[...]
SAIC lands $185M Army contract
The U.S. Army awarded Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a $185 million task order to support the Decision Support Division for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) in services related to space, space control, high altitude, air and missile defense and cyberspace operations, the company announced Thursday. […]
Northrop Grumman lands $298M Space Force contract
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) awarded Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. a $298 million contract to help the agency develop hardware and software for a new military satellite communications system, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will build a payload to support the Space and Missile […]
HUD awards Fairfax firm $42M contract
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Fairfax-based tech contractor Pyramid Systems a two-year, $42 million contract to migrate loan processing system applications to cloud computing infrastructure designed for government use, the company announced Wednesday. Pyramid Systems will use Salesforce to restructure existing software code for the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) legacy information […][...]
Tysons software company converts $425M cash holdings to bitcoin
The CEO of Tysons-based business software company MicroStrategy Inc., Michael Saylor announced Tuesday that the company has now purchased $425 million worth of bitcoin. In August, the company had announced that it had converted $250 million from its cash holdings into more than 21,000 bitcoins, making it one of the first public companies to use […]
DXC Technology taps CEO for spinoff health and human services business
Tysons-based Fortune 500 company DXC Technology announced Wednesday it has promoted Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh to the new position of CEO of the company’s U.S. State and Local Health and Human Services business, which will be effective upon closing of the sale of the business unit to private equity firm Veritas Capital[...]
Va. ID management, tech company names president, CEO
French ID management and tech company IDEMIA, which has U.S. headquarters in Reston, announced Tuesday it has named Andrew Boyd as president and CEO of IDEMIA National Security Solutions (NSS), located in Alexandria. Boyd was most recently the senior vice president of defense and intelligence at Reston-based Science Applications[...]
Tysons contactless delivery tech company buys Ind.-based firm
Tysons-based startup HomeValet, which develops technology for contactless deliveries, announced Wednesday it has acquired Evansville, Indiana-based Evolve Engineering LLC, which focuses on appliance engineering. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Envolve Engineering’s team has had a hand in developing home appliance products for some of the largest refrigeration brands in the industry,” Jack Simms, […][...]
