Inova receives $75M donation for heart, vascular programs
Northern Virginia philanthropists Dwight and Martha Schar have made a $75 million matching gift to support Inova Health System’s heart and vascular treatment programs, Inova announced Tuesday. The Schars have donated a total of $126 million to the Falls Church-based health system since 1993, including $50 million in 2015 t[...]
Alexandria’s QED Investors raises $925M for two new funds
Alexandria-based fintech venture capital firm QED Investors raised $925 million for two new funds, QED announced Tuesday. The funding comes from two capital commitments: a $650 million oversubscribed early stage fund and a $275 million early growth stage fund, according to a news release from QED, a key investor in San Francisco[...]
DISYS and acquired company rebrand as Dexian
McLean-based staffing firm Digital Intelligence Systems LLC (DISYS) and Florida-based Signature Consultants LLC have rebranded their combined company as Dexian, DISYS announced Monday. DISYS first announced its acquisition agreement with Signature Consultants in April 2021. The new company has a combined revenue of more than $1[...]
Amazon begins HQ2 move-in
Amazon.com Inc. is moving more than 8,000 employees into the first phase of HQ2, its $2.5 billion East Coast headquarters in Arlington‘s emerging National Landing area, this week. The e-tailer plans to officially open HQ2’s first phase, Metropolitan Park (Met Park), in June and to complete its move-in by the end of t[...]
Construction begins on $135M Loudoun biz park’s first phase
Construction has started on the first four buildings in an approximately $135 million, 10-building business community in Dulles, project owner-developer St. John Properties Inc. of Baltimore announced Wednesday. The project, Arcola Center, will be a 34-acre business park at the intersection of Loudoun County Parkway and Dulles W[...]
SAIC announces CEO transition
Nazzic S. Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), will retire in October, the Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor announced Thursday. She will be succeeded by former Microsoft Corp. executive Toni Townes-Whitley, also formerly president of CGI Federal. Townes-Whitley will become CEO-elect on June 12, takin[...]
Bowman acquires Ga., Fla. engineering firms
Updated May 18 Reston-based engineering services firm Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. completed two acquisitions early this week, its 19th and 20th purchases since going public in May 2021. The company announced Monday it had acquired Georgia-based Fisher Engineering Inc. and followed it with a Wednesday announcement it had acquired Florida-based civil engineering firm Hole Montes […]
NG receives $244.6M for ballistic missile work
Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $244.6 million modification to a previously awarded contract to continue work on ballistic missile defense system capabilities, the Pentagon announced May 9. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract continues development, integration, testing and fielding of complex advanced discrimination techniques, operation and sustainment of complex modeling, and simulation techniq[...]
Snyder, Harris reach agreement on Washington Commanders sale
Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder has reached an agreement for the reported $6 billion sale of the Ashburn-based NFL team to a group led by Bethesda, Maryland-based billionaire Josh Harris. News of the sale was posted on the team’s website and on Twitter Friday afternoon. “We are very pleased to have reached an [...]
ASRC Federal closes $350M purchase of SAIC logistics biz
The $350 million cash sale of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)’s logistics and supply chain management business to ASRC Federal Holding Company LLC is complete, the Reston-based companies announced Monday. ASRC and Fortune 500 tech contractor SAIC first announced the deal in March. With the sale’s completion, 240 SAIC employees transitioned to ASRC Federal. “We […][...]
Boeing reaches $40B deal with Ryanair
Irish air carrier Ryanair plans to order as many as 300 Boeing 737 MAX-10 aircraft from Arlington County-based Fortune 100 contractor Boeing Co. in a $40 billion deal, the two companies announced Tuesday. Subject to approval by Ryanair’s stockholders, the deal includes a firm order from the airline for 150 aircraft and an [...]
IT contractor to add 90 jobs in Fairfax
Reston-based Dev Technology Group will invest $366,000 to expand in Fairfax County, adding 90 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. The investment includes 10,000 square feet of additional office space. Founded in 1998, Dev Technology Group provides IT services to the federal government, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, multiple […][...]

















