Internet governing body blocks $1.1B sale of Public Interest Registry
The governing body of Internet domain addresses voted Thursday to block the $1.135 billion sale of the Public Interest Registry, a Reston-based nonprofit created by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage the .org top-level domain, to private equity firm Ethos Capital. The Public Interest Registry has operated the .org domain — which is used […]
Axios returns $4.8M in PPP funding
Arlington County-based digital media company Axios Media Inc. is returning $4.8 million it received from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to Axios cofounder and CEO Jim VandeHei, who said the federal relief program aimed at helping small businesses keep their workforces emplo[...]
Reston IT company names president
Tony Crescenzo has been hired as president of Reston-based information technology company Intelligent Waves LLC. Formerly the CEO of Falls Church-based IT company IntelliDyne LLC, Crescenzo earned his bachelor’s degree from Stockton University and his master’s degree in business administration from Rutgers University[...]
Veterans helping veterans
September 2019 was a big month for B3 Group Inc. The Herndon-based information technology services company was among the contract winners for a $686 million task order from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Digital Transformation Center. The same month, it was selected for a 15-year, $59.9 million contract to provide [...]
2020 Virginia’s Fantastic 50
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A catalyst for change
An unhappy customer was the engine for change at Alpha Omega Integration LLC — and is a major factor the Vienna-based information technology solutions company attributes to its success. Alpha Omega won an IT contract from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Information Resource Management in 2018. But three weeks la[...]
High-rise horizon
The numbers are mind-boggling. During the next decade, Amazon.com Inc. plans to develop about 6 million square feet of office space in Arlington County’s Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard areas to accommodate the mammoth e-tailer’s new HQ2 East Coast headquarters. That’s almost as large as the bigges[...]
Metro trains empty, but construction continues
With service limited and thousands of federal employees teleworking during the coronavirus pandemic, Metro stations are ghost towns these days. Nevertheless, that isn’t slowing down construction on the new Potomac Yard Metrorail station in Alexandria, according to city officials. In March, the city and Metro completed pric[...]
Charting growth
As the Virginia Chamber of Commerce marks its 25th year of celebrating the commonwealth’s 50 fastest-growing companies, this unfortunately will be the first year that Virginia’s Fantastic 50 award winners haven’t been recognized with an in-person event. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s Fantast[...]
Leveraging the past
Vernon Green served 20 years, five months and 18 days in the Army, retiring in 2014 as a chief warrant officer after three deployments to Iraq and one to Kuwait. Today he heads his own information technology and cybersecurity business responsible for 10 major government projects. And he hires veterans like himself. During his ti[...]
Highway projects around Virginia
HAMPTON ROADS Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion The $3.3 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion is the largest construction project in the history of the Virginia Department of Transportation. In February 2019, Hampton Roads Connector Partners, a joint venture led by New York-based Dragados USA, won the design-build c[...]
Leidos subsidiary tapped to develop lunar landing system
Dynetics, a wholly owned aerospace subsidiary of Reston-based defense contractor Leidos, is one of three prime contractors awarded contracts by NASA to design the human lunar landing system that will take the first woman and next man to the moon’s surface by 2024. The other two aerospace companies are Amazon.com Inc. Presi[...]