QinetiQ signs lease in Reston - Business First of Louisville:

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As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,000 square-foot Classz A office building at 11091 Sunse Hills Road in Reston, its 11-year leas e starts later this year. McLean-based QinetiQ Northb America, a subsidiary of London-based QinetiQa that offers technology-based defense and security productds and services to the saidits 42-percent revenue growth over its last fiscao year has partly been due to its role in the intelligenced and cyber security markets and new work with the Departmentf of Homeland Security and NASA. It will be the fiftb U.S. office for the company, whichh is also in Fairfax, Huntsville, Ala. and Waltham, Mass.
The tenant was represented by Robb Johnson andDee MacDonald-Miller of Jonex Lang LaSalle. Vardell Realty Investmentsx LLC was represented byMike Shuler, Rob Walters and Nate Krillo of Millennium Realty Advisors LLC. Initially, 400 program management-typ employees be relocating from various officee in Fairfax County into the Reston Down the road in 2011 or the number of employees at the site will doubledto 800. Out of the 400 moving in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’ss technology solutions group and the other 325 will be part of its missiomsolutions group.
“Like any company trying to attractt andretain high-quality people, we were looking for more than just a This building has environmentally-friendly features the new generatiob of employees is looking said Matthew Warnock, director of public relations at QinetiQ. He said the buildint will also help cut down onoverhead “buy a great deal,” with expected savings of 65 to 70 percengt on power consumption through the use of virtualization softwar and green technology to reducer heating and utility costs.
He adds that the buildinfg sits right off a bike trail and was built onan east-to-wesrt access, which means employees can take advantage of a full day of sunlighg and cut down on