Booz Allen Hamilton has signed an agreement with JBG Smith to expand and renew its lease on an office space located at the Crystal City area in Northern Virginia. The defense firm said Thursday it will occupy an 84K-square-foot space at 1550 Crystal Drive within the National Landing neighborhood’s central district retail development by September.
Read More »HII Launches Navy’s 18th Virginia-Class Submarine; Dave Bolcar Quoted
Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s 18th Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine into the water at a company facility in Newport News, Va. HII said Monday it used a transfer car system in order to put USS Delaware into a floating dry platform that was submerged to discharge the submarine into the James River. …
Read More »Deloitte to Help Update Medicaid IT Systems in Four States
Deloitte has received contracts to provide a cloud-based enterprise information technology platform for the integration of new modules into the Medicaid systems being used in Montana, Ohio, Virginia and Wyoming. The company said Tuesday it will help state agencies implement the HealthInteractive Platform to address system modularity and interoperability requirements. The platform is …
Read More »AWS Partners With Eastern Foundry to Host SBA Hackathon; David Levy Quoted
Amazon Web Services and Eastern Foundry will host a hackathon from Dec. 15 to 16 to help the U.S. Small Business Administration address challenges in disaster response for small businesses, FedScoop reported Wednesday. The two companies aim to provide SBA with the technologies and methods that could speed up a …
Read More »Virginia DOT Taps Woolpert to Collect, Analyze Highway Asset Data
Virginia’s transportation department has selected Woolpert to gather and process data of highway condition assets from roads across the state. The company said Tuesday it will assess over 40 types of these assets such as guardrails and fences based on the department’s standard criteria and submit processed data to Leidos …
Read More »Medallia Opens Public Sector Group HQ in Virginia
Customer experience management company Medallia has selected McLean, Va., as the location of its public sector arm’s headquarters facility. Medallia said Wednesday it aims to help government clients integrate public comments and obtain a unified view of citizen experience with a single technology platform. The company designed its Experience Cloud platform to process citizen feedback …
Read More »Northrop Completes Critical Design Review of Naval Inertial Navigation System; Todd Leavitt Quoted
Northrop Grumman will begin manufacturing 10 pre-production units of an inertial navigation system for the U.S. Navy after completing the critical design review phase of the technology. Todd Leavitt, vice president of maritime systems at Northrop, said in a statement published Wednesday that completing the CDR allows the program for …
Read More »CGI Federal Seeks to Collaborate With Clients Through Virginia-Based Innovation Hub
CGI Federal has established an innovation center in Arlington, Va., in a move to help federal clients address challenges with the use of technology, Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. The facility, which is located at Marymount University’s Ballston Center, will host interactive workshops and showcase company-made information technology platforms through …
Read More »Gerald Gordon, Fairfax County EDA President & CEO, to Retire at Year’s End
Gerald Gordon, president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, will retire by the end of December after more than three decades at the helm. He will join the South Carolina-based College of Charleston in January to serve as a fellow at the Joseph P. Riley Center for …
Read More »Joseph Wells Promoted to Dewberry Intell Community Market Leader
Joseph Wells, a nearly 40-year architectural and engineering industry veteran, has been promoted as intelligence community market leader at Dewberry‘s office in Fairfax, Va. He will coordinate with federal clients on life cycle cost management, cybersecurity, general architecture, asset management, engineering, resilience efforts, Dewberry said Tuesday. Wells previously served as principal-in-charge of the …
Read More »Gov. Ralph Northam: VITA-SAIC Partnership to Generate 40 IT Jobs
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that an agreement between the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Science Applications International Corp. will generate 40 information technology jobs in Clinton, Dickenson County. “These jobs will be key to helping the Commonwealth modernize its technology infrastructure and support the changing IT needs of our …
Read More »Accenture to Support Virginia Medicaid Processing System Modernization Under $138M Contract
Accenture has secured a potential six-year, $138 million contract to help modernize the Commonwealth of Virginia’s system for processing and managing Medicaid claims. The company said Thursday it will support the implementation and operation of core systems for the state’s Medicaid Enterprise infrastructure as part of the Modular Core Services Solutions contract. The …
Read More »Michael Niggel, Neil Albert, Claudio Monticelli Speak at ACT I’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, addressed a crowd of approximately 200 attendees during the company’s 20th anniversary celebration on Jan. 20 at Fort Myer in Virginia. Niggel discussed ACT I’s efforts to deliver total acquisition management and foreign military sales platforms and services to government clients across …
Read More »Orbital ATK to Perform 2 ISS Cargo Resupply Missions for NASA in 2018
Orbital ATK plans to use its Cygnus spacecraft to perform two cargo delivery missions this year to the International Space Station under the first Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The ninth ISS cargo supply mission, dubbed OA-9, is set to take off in May aboard the …
Read More »Technomile Relocates Corporate HQ to McLean, VA; Ashish Khot Comments
Cloud application and service provider Technomile has moved its corporate headquarters from Vienna to Mclean, Virginia, in an effort to accommodate additional employees to fill key positions across the organization. The company said Wednesday its main office is now located at 1861 International Drive Suite 270 in McLean. “We intend to continue adding talented …
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