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Peduzzi Associates Ltd. names next president
Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Garry Dean will become the president of Alexandria-based consulting company Peduzzi Associates Ltd. on Friday. Dean has served on the company’s board of advisers for the last four years. He has been an international airline captain for Delta Air Lines since he retired from the Air Force in [...]
Long Bridge expansion to speed up D.C.-Va. rail traffic
Plans for constructing a $1.9 billion, two-track railroad bridge connecting Virginia to Washington, D.C. — doubling the number of tracks going across the Potomac River from the U.S. capital to the commonwealth — are chugging right along. “We’re now moving forward to advance the engineering design and that should be c[...]
DXC moves HQ to Ashburn, shifts to ‘virtual first’
Fortune 500 IT services company DXC Technology is leaving Tysons for a smaller headquarters in Ashburn in November, the company announced this week. DXC’s new 10,000-square-foot building is located at One Loudoun in Ashburn. The new corporate headquarters will reflect the shift to a virtual-first mentality. Employees can w[...]
Peraton awarded $109M cyberspace contract
Herndon-based federal Peraton Inc. announced this week it has been awarded a contract worth up to $109 million by the U.S. Cyber Command, a project that will deliver full-spectrum cyberspace operations for the Department of Defense. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity Cyberspace Operations Support Services task order could last four years, the company said in a news […]
Fluence files plans for IPO
Fluence Energy Inc., an Arlington-based energy storage and digital application company owned by Siemens and AES Corp., announced this week it has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The number of shares and price range for the proposed offer[...]
Alpine-X opens crowdfunding campaign to public investors
Alpine-X LLC, a McLean-based indoor snow sports company, announced a crowdfunding campaign to open the stock to public investors. The offering — started on crowdfunding site Republic — allows accredited and non-accredited investors to own a piece of the McLean-based company that is planning a national chain of indoor ski res[...]
Noblis lands $263M Defense contract
Reston-based not-for-profit federal contractor Noblis has won a five-year, $263 million contract from the Department of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency to implement the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the company announced Tuesday. Under the contract, Noblis will deliver advisory services that will advance the CTR program’s mission to work cooperatively with partners and allies to […][...]
AMSG promotes COO to CEO
Dumfries-based Advanced Management Strategies Group Inc. has named Jim O’Farrell as its new CEO, effective Tuesday. O’Farrell joined AMSG, a management and technology consulting firm with the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) certification, in 2010 as president and chief operating officer. He replaces Mike McCormick, the[...]
Parsons names new president of engineered systems business
Centreville-based defense contractor Parsons Corp. has promoted Jon Moretta as president of the engineered systems business unit, the company announced Monday. Moretta joined Parsons in 2016 and most recently served as the industrial market leader in the company’s critical infrastructure business segment. Under his leaders[...]
2 Va. companies land spots on $151M Navy IT contract
Two Virginia companies have landed spots on a $151 million contract to provide full IT lifecycle support to the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command’s core facilities, management, construction management and installation management systems. Norfolk-based Chitra Productions LLC and Fairfax-based AttainX Inc. will both do work alongside three other companies in Atlanta, Kansas and Ohio, the […][...]
8 Va. companies land spots on $42B Air Force contract
Eight Virginia companies have landed spots on a $46 billion contract with the U.S. Air Force Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition contract. The Air Force awarded spots to 55 firms, according to a Department of Defense announcement this week. The contract provides for work in digital engineering and model-based systems engineering, agile processes, open systems architecture, […]
1.9M-square-foot industrial park being built in Stafford
The Fairfax-based Peterson Cos. is building a 1.9 million-square-foot development in a 270-acre industrial park in Stafford County, and JLL will oversee the leasing, the companies announced Friday. Northern Virginia Gateway, which is expected to be built out within a year, is on Centreport Parkway, off Interstate 95. “Peterson[...]
