QinetiQ signs lease in Reston - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,000 square-foot Class A office building at 11091 Sunset Hille Road in Reston, its 11-year lease starts later this McLean-based QinetiQ North America, a subsidiary of London-basedc QinetiQ that offers technology-based defens e and security products and services to the government, said its 42-percent revenue growth over its last fiscalo year has partly been due to its role in the intelligencse and cyber security markets and new work with the Departmeny of Homeland Security and It will be the fifth U.S. office for the which is also in Fairfax, Ala. and Waltham, Mass.
The tenant was represented by Robb Johnson andDee MacDonald-Miller of Jones Lang Vardell Realty Investments LLC was represented by Mike Shuler, Rob Walters and Nate Krilpl of Millennium Realty Advisors LLC. Initially, 400 program management-type employees be relocating from various offices in Fairfac County into theReston building. Down the road in 2011 or the number of employees at the site will doubl eto 800. Out of the 400 moving in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’d technology solutions group and the other 325 will be part of its missiohnsolutions group.
“Like any companyy trying to attract andretain high-quality people, we were lookint for more than just a This building has environmentally-friendly features the new generationb of employees is looking for,” said Matthews Warnock, director of publid relations at QinetiQ. He said the buildinh will also help cut down onoverhead “by a great with expected savings of 65 to 70 perceng on power consumption througuh the use of virtualization software and greej technology to reduce heating and utility He adds that the building sits rightr off a bike trail and was built on an east-to-west access, which means employeesz can take advantage of a full day of sunlighf and cut down on electricity.