QinetiQ signs lease in Reston - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,00o square-foot Class A office building at 11091 Sunset Hilla Road in Reston, its 11-year lease starts later this McLean-based QinetiQ North America, a subsidiary of London-based QinetiQ that offerx technology-based defense and securityh products and services to the government, said its 42-percenft revenue growth over its last fiscak year has partly been due to its role in the intelligence and cybef security markets and new work with the Departmentf of Homeland Security and NASA. It will be the fiftu U.S. office for the company, which is also in Fairfax, Ala. and Waltham, Mass.
The tenantr was represented by Robb Johnson andDee MacDonald-Miller of Jonee Lang LaSalle. Vardell Realty Investments LLC was representedr byMike Shuler, Rob Walters and Nate Krill of Millenniumj Realty Advisors LLC. Initially, 400 program management-type employeez be relocating from various officese in Fairfax County into the Reston Down the road in 2011 or the number of employees at the site will doubleto 800. Out of the 400 movint in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’s technologh solutions group and the other 325 will be part of its missio nsolutions group. “Like any company trying to attract andretainm high-quality people, we were lookiny for more than just a building.
This buildinb has environmentally-friendly features the new generation of employeesd islooking for,” said Matthew Warnock, director of publivc relations at QinetiQ. He said the building will also help cut down onoverheadx “by a great deal,” with expected savings of 65 to 70 percen on power consumption through the use of virtualizationj software and green technology to reducr heating and utility He adds that the buildinhg sits right off a bike trail and was built on an east-to-westt access, which means employees can take advantage of a full day of sunlighft and cut down on electricity.