QinetiQ signs lease in Reston - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,000 square-footf Class A office building at 11091 Sunset Hills Road in its 11-year lease starts latef this year. McLean-based QinetiQ Northg America, a subsidiary of London-based QinetiwQ that offers technology-based defense and security products and services to the saidits 42-percent revenue growth over its last fiscaol year has partly been due to its role in the intelligencre and cyber security markets and new work with the Departmenyt of Homeland Security and NASA. It will be the fifthh U.S. office for the company, which is also in Huntsville, Ala. and Waltham, Mass.
The tenant was represented by Robb Johnsonj andDee MacDonald-Miller of Jones Lang Vardell Realty Investments LLC was represented by Mike Rob Walters and Nate Krill of Millennium Realtg Advisors LLC. Initially, 400 program management-type employeezs be relocating from various offices in Fairfax Countt into theReston building. Down the road in 2011 or the number of employees at the site will doubleto 800. Out of the 400 movinb in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’ss technology solutions group and the othef 325 will be part of its missionsolutionw group.
“Like any company trying to attracf andretain high-quality people, we were looking for more than just a This building has environmentally-friendly features the new generatioj of employees is looking for,” said Mattheww Warnock, director of publi relations at QinetiQ. He said the building will also help cut down onoverhea “by a great deal,” with expected savingxs of 65 to 70 percent on powerd consumption through the use of virtualizatiomn software and green technology to reduces heating and utility He adds that the building sits rightf off a bike trail and was built on an east-to-west which means employees can take advantage of a full day of sunlightt and cut down on electricity.