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Amazon signs lease on PBS HQ space in Arlington
Amazon.com Inc. has signed a lease with its HQ2 landlord and developer JBG Smith Properties for a 272,000-square-feet building in Arlington that has served as the headquarters for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) since 2006. The e-commerce giant expects to move into the space at 2100 Crystal Drive by the end of 2020. PBS will […]
Arlington’s Venture Global LNG signs sales agreement with French utility
A subsidiary of Arlington-based liquefied natural gas producer Venture Global LNG Inc. has entered into a 20-year sales and purchase agreement to provide 1 million tons of liquified natural gas per year to the world’s largest electricity producer, Électricité de France (EDF), Venture Global announced Tuesday. Venture Global Plaquemines LNG LLC, a 630-acre natural gas […]
Reston-based Stanley-Martin to acquire Essex Homes
Reston-based construction company Stanley-Martin Communities LLC will acquire the home-building assets of Lexington, South Carolina-based home-building company Essex Homes in North Carolina and South Carolina in a deal expected to close by the end of the month. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Stanley-Martin — a subsidiary of a Japanese firm, Daiwa House […]
Booz Allen Hamilton awarded $147.4M NIH contract
McLean-based information technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a $147.4 million contract to provide technical support for the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Under the five-year contract, Booz Allen will work with NIAID’s Office of Computer Infrastructure and Computational Biology to develop and maintain clinical […][...]
George Mason University names new president
The George Mason University Board of Visitors has selected Gregory Washington, the dean of the University of California, Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering, as the eighth president of George Mason. Washington will start on July 1. He takes over from former state Secretary of Education Anne Holton, who has served [...]
Alarm.com launches apprenticeship program
In cooperation with Northern Virginia Community College, Tysons-based Alarm.com launched an apprenticeship program Friday aimed at producing workers with in-demand tech skills. Supported by the state’s GO Virginia economic development initiative, 10 initial apprentices, including three from the military community, will par[...]
SAIC exec joins Intelligence and National Security Alliance board
Arlington-based nonprofit Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) named Michael LaRouche, an executive with Reston-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), to its board of directors, INSA announced Thursday. INSA is a nonpartisan and nonprofit trade association that creates a public-private partnership for intelligence and national security issues. It has more than 160 corporate members and […][...]
Booz Allen Hamilton lands $113M SEC cyber defense contract
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded McLean-based Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. a $113 million, 10-year contract for cyber defense operations support, the company announced Thursday. The contract was awarded on Dec. 12, 2019, but announced Thursday. “Our team will provide the SEC with leading-edge, threat-centric, proactive cyber defense with the ability to detect and […]
Falls Church federal contractor NetImpact Strategies names COO
Falls Church-based federal contractor NetImpact Strategies Inc. promoted Stephanie Wilson to the company’s newly created role of chief operating officer. Most recently, Wilson served as chief strategy officer for the company and focused on business development. She has almost 30 years of experience and has also worked for Anthem’s National Government Services federal platform and […][...]
Morgan Stanley to acquire E-Trade for $13B
New York City-based wealth management company Morgan Stanley will acquire Arlington-based E-Trade Financial Corp. under a $13 billion definitive agreement expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, the companies announced Thursday. E-Trade stockholders will receive 1.0432 Morgan Stanley stares for each of their E-Trad[...]
Arlington machine learning developer receives $63M investment
Arlington– and Boston-based machine learning developer Carbon Relay received a $63 million investment from New York City-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, the companies announced Wednesday. Carbon Relay will use the investment to grow its Red Sky Ops platform for optimizing application performance in Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes — originally developed by Google […][...]
UiPath donates $16.4M in software licenses to GMU business school
New York City-based software developer UiPath has donated $16.4 million in software licenses to George Mason University’s School of Business for students to learn robotic process automation (RPA) technologies, the university announced Wednesday. RPA configures computer software for users to integrate human interaction actions in digital systems for business processes. With RPA, robots can capture […][...]
