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IRS drops plan to use Va. firm’s facial recognition tech
The Internal Revenue Service is dropping a controversial plan to require taxpayers to submit to facial recognition to access their online accounts, the agency announced Monday. McLean-based contractor ID.me was working on the facial recognition system, which the IRS had earlier said would be implemented on its website this summe[...]
JLL announces NoVa office move
JLL is moving its Northern Virginia office from Vienna to 1800 Tysons Blvd. in McLean, the commercial real estate company announced Monday. JLL will occupy nearly 24,000 square feet of the building, owned by Lerner Enterprises, with the move set during the first quarter of the year. Form Architects designed the office, which mee[...]
Herndon telehealth company to be acquired
Herndon-based acute care telemedicine provider SOC Telemed Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired and taken private by California-based health care investment firm Patient Square Capital, it announced Thursday. SOC Telemed stockholders will receive $3 in cash per share, which represents a 366.1% premium over SOC Telemed’s closing share price on Wednesday, […]
ManTech secures $118M Navy contract
Herndon-based tech contractor ManTech International Corp. has secured a $188 million, five-year contract to support the U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane by providing tech solutions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance by unmanned aircraft systems. “At ManTech, intelligent systems engineering is a core competency where we excel at developing innovation solutions. … Under this […][...]
Washington Football Team has new name: Commanders
The Washington Football Team became the Washington Commanders Wednesday. President Jason Wright announced the new name for the Ashburn-based NFL team on NBC’s “Today” show. “It’s a name that has the weight and meaning befitting a 90-year-old franchise,” Wright said. “It’s something that broadly resona[...]
GDIT wins $518M Army contract
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. (GDIT) won a $518 million task order from the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM), the company announced Monday. Under the Worldwide Field Support task order, the Fortune 500 General Dynamics Corp. subsidiary will provide logistics, sustainment and maintenance services for joint U.S. and coalition forces in the […][...]
Prince William data center sells for $222.5M
Columbia, Maryland-based Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) sold DC-6, a data center in Prince William County, for $222.5 million to Cloud Capital, an affiliate company of Washington, D.C.-based CloudHQ, COPT announced Jan. 25. The data center, which was built in 2009, is located at 9651 Hornbaker Road and has 100,000 square feet in raised floor […]
Dumfries’ Rose gaming resort could have big local impact
Athough casinos being built in four Virginia cities have grabbed the lion’s share of media attention, construction is also underway on The Rose, a $400 million gaming facility and hotel in Prince William County that represents an additional outcome of the state’s 2020 casino legislation. Colonial Downs Group is build[...]
Middleburg Communities hires CTO
Vienna-based Middleburg Communities hired Heath Flowers as its chief technology officer, the company announced Jan. 27. Flowers has overall responsibility for technology operations and strategies for the multifamily development, investment, construction and management company. “Middleburg has long embraced a tech-forward appro[...]
Parsons Corp. elects new chairwoman
The board of directors of Centreville-based defense contractor Parsons Corp. has elected President and CEO Carey A. Smith as its chairwoman, effective April 14, the company announced Monday. Smith will replace Charles “Chuck” Harrington, the current executive chairman, who will retire when his board term expires in A[...]
Son replaces father as Smith-Midland Corp. chairman
Rodney I. Smith, who worked at his family’s precast concrete company in Fauquier County for 62 years, has stepped down as Smith-Midland Corp.’s board chairman, making way for his son, Ashley B. Smith, who is also president and CEO. The company, which manufactures, licenses, rents and sells precast concrete products, [...]
CTSI acquires N.C. tech firm
Chantilly-based technology firm Corbett Technology Solutions Inc. (CTSI) has acquired Knightdale, North Carolina-based Systems Electronics Inc., the company announced Jan. 20. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CTSI is a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners and this makes CTSI’s eighth transaction since it was acquired by Wind Point […][...]
