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Intelligent Waves announces new senior vice president
Kathy Barlow will oversee contracts and pricing for Reston IT contractor
Reston-based federal information technology contractor Intelligent Waves LLC has named Kathy Barlow as its senior vice president of contracts and pricing, it announced May 6. Barlow spent more than 10 years with government contractor IntelliDyne LLC, where she served as senior director of contracts. She also held roles overseeing contracts at QinetiQ and Horne International.
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Atlantic Broadband announces $7.2 million partnership
State grant will help expand broadband in four counties
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Atlantic Broadband has announced a $7.2 million partnership to deliver broadband to more than 1,200 homes and businesses in Caroline, Mathews, Lancaster and Middlesex counties. A $4.2 million grant from the Virginia Telecommunication Initiative pays for the bulk of the project, with $1.5 million coming from Atlantic Broadband and the remaining $1.5 contributed by the
Axios-Athletic merger gets axed
Arlington-based Axios is daily news site with podcasts, HBO show
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A proposed merger between Arlington-based digital news company Axios Media Inc. and San Francisco-based sports media firm the Athletic is no longer going forward, according to a May 6 report from The Wall Street Journal. The Journal had previously reported that the companies had been exploring merging and going public through through a special purpose
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Parsons lands $618M GSA contract
Centreville-based defense contractor also posts first-quarter results
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Centreville-based Parsons Corp. has won a $618 million contract with the U.S. General Services Administration, it announced this week, bringing the company’s total contracts won since the end of the first quarter to approximately $1 billion. The new contract covers professional services that advance the intelligence community’s global cyber and intelligence technologies for C5ISR, the
UPDATED: Peraton completes $7.1B Perspecta acquisition
Perspecta shareholders sealed deal on May 6
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UPDATED MAY 7, 8:20 A.M. Herndon-based national security contractor Peraton Inc. completed its $7.1 billion, all-cash acquisition of Chantilly-based federal IT contractor Perspecta Inc. on Thursday, according to a news release from Peraton’s parent company, New York-based private investment firm Veritas Capital. The combined companies will be known as Peraton and will be overseen by
George Mason University approved to start school of computing
Program will be first of its kind in Virginia
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The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia gave the green light to George Mason University’s plan to start a school of computing, the Fairfax-based university announced today. Three departments will comprise the core of the school, which will be the first of its kind in Virginia, the university said: statistics, computer science and information
Mitre names new cyber technologies VP
Wen Masters joins McLean nonprofit from Georgia Tech
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McLean-based The Mitre Corp. has hired research scientist Wen Masters as its vice president for cyber technologies, effective May 17. Masters most recently worked at Georgia Tech Research Institute, where she served as deputy director for research and led its Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate. She was principal research scientist at Georgia Tech. Founded in
Arlington-based Higher Logic acquires Montreal’s Vanilla
Tech firms offer community engagement platforms
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Arlington-based tech company Higher Logic has acquired Canadian cloud-based community software company Vanilla. Vanilla was owned by New York-based growth equity investment firm Level Equity. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, Higher Logic offers a community engagement software platform aimed at associations and the corporate B2B market. With the acquisition
Booz Allen Hamilton acquires Herndon IT company for $725M
McLean-based Fortune 500 firm acquires Liberty IT Solutions
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McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. announced Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Herndon-based Liberty IT Solutions LLC for $725 million. In a statement, Booz Allen President and CEO Horacio Rozanski said, “This acquisition supports our long-term strategy to drive continued growth by investing in innovative
AES to provide carbon-free power for Google’s Loudoun data centers
Arlington-based Fortune 500 utility signs 10-year agreement with Google
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As part of Google LLC’s ambitious “moonshot” to produce all of its energy from carbon-free sources, Arlington-based The AES Corp. announced Tuesday that it has signed a 10-year agreement to provide carbon-free power for Google’s data centers in Loudoun County. A Fortune 500 international electrical utility, AES will provide 90% of the Google data centers’