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GDIT gets $136 million Navy contract
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) Inc. has won a $136 million contract from the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. The IT subsidiary of Fortune 500 contractor General Dynamics, which generated $39.7 billion in revenue last year, GDIT will support the consolidation of all Tier 1 information technology help desks and […]
Alexandria-based ASI acquires New Hampshire company
Alexandria’s Advanced Solutions International (ASI) has acquired New Hampshire-based WBT Systems, a learning solutions provider, the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1991, ASI provides subscription-based software and services for associations and nonprofits worldwide. WBT helps organizations expand their online learning portfolio. The company developed TopClass LMS, an education [&helli[...]
Arlington’s Macfadden wins $177.5M USAID contract
Arlington-based Macfadden & Associates Inc., a subsidiary of Falls Church-based Pacific Architects and Engineers Co. (PAE), has been awarded a $177.5 million task order to support the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, the company announced Wednesday. Macfadden, an international consulting firm offering technical services to governments, will deliver administrative[...]
Herndon tech company gets $184M IRS contract
Herndon-based cloud services provider ViON Corp. has been awarded a $184 million contract with the Internal Revenue Service, the company announced Wednesday. ViON will perform work under the IRS’s Managed Infrastructure Data Service program. It will provide managed services to reengineer, maintain and operate the IRS’s storage and compute infrastructure environment with on-site, infrastructure-as-a-service for […][...]
Leidos nabs $270M NASA contract
Reston-based Leidos Holdings Inc., a Fortune 500 government contractor, won a $270 million contract with NASA, according to the space agency. Leidos will provide program, science, engineering, operations and project management support at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Work under the contract will include biosciences flight development projects, collaborative science programs, aeronautics [&hellip[...]
Alexandria’s SPA lands $185M contract for Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Alexandria-based Systems Planning and Analysis Inc. (SPA) has signed a contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the company announced Tuesday. The $185 million contract will be for research, development, test and evaluation subject matter expertise advisory and assistance support, according to a news release from SPA. The work will be performed at Fort Belvoir, […]
AT&T and NOVA launch IT apprenticeship program
AT&T has created an IT apprenticeship program with Northern Virginia Community College and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry, the company announced Tuesday. The two-year program will offer students information technology training and 2,000 hours of on-the-job training in technical, soft skills, lab work and related skills. They will earn five industry certifications in […]
Bloomberg Industry Group appoints diversity, inclusion and community head
Arlington-based Bloomberg Industry Group appointed Ebony Amoroso as its first head of diversity, inclusion and community, it announced Friday. “Ebony has developed a stellar track record leading cutting-edge diversity programs across the media landscape, and I’m excited to welcome her on board to fill this critically[...]
Herndon data center company to acquire Israeli company
Herndon-based EdgeConneX, a data center solutions company, has entered an agreement to acquire Israel-based Global Data Center (GDC), it announced Monday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Once completed, EdgeConneX will gain GDC’s two underground facilities in Israel, in Herzliya Pituach and Petah Tikva. The company’s two data centers are built in accordance […][...]
NoVa housing forecast: Still tight for single-family homebuyers
In the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors’ mid-year forecast released Friday, a panel of real estate experts predict a continued tight market for single-family homes and higher residential prices in the second half of the year, but the market appears to be normalizing from last year’s heights. “This year, th[...]
Metro unveils major Falls Church redevelopment agreement
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has signed an agreement to redevelop the West Falls Church Metro Station site as a more than 1 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Construction is expected to begin in 2023. The agreement was reached with FGCP-Metro LLC, a joint real estate development partnership involvi[...]
Reston consulting firm acquires Stafford technical solutions company
Reston-based consulting firm Counter Threat Solutions LLC has acquired Stafford-based Quantitative Analytics LLC, completing its second acquisition, CTS announced Thursday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. CTS is a consulting company that provides subject matter experts to the intelligence and defense communities. Both are service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Founded in 2011, Quantitative Analytics [&[...]
