QinetiQ signs lease in Reston - The Business Review (Albany):

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As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,00p0 square-foot Class A offics building at 11091 Sunset Hillsw Road in Reston, its 11-yea r lease starts later this year. McLean-based QinetiwQ North America, a subsidiary of London-based QinetiQ that offersx technology-based defense and security products and services to the saidits 42-percent revenue growth over its last fisca l year has partly been due to its role in the intelligencwe and cyber security markets and new work with the Department of Homelane Security and NASA. It will be the fifth U.S. officed for the company, which is also in Huntsville, Ala.
and Waltham, The tenant was represented by Robb Johnson andDee MacDonald-Millerf of Jones Lang LaSalle. Vardell Realt y Investments LLC was represented byMike Shuler, Rob Walterds and Nate Krill of Millennium Realty Advisorse LLC. Initially, 400 program management-type employees be relocatingb from various offices in Fairfax County into theRestonj building. Down the road in 2011 or the number of employees at the site will doublesto 800. Out of the 400 movinvg in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’e technology solutions group and the othefr 325 will be part of its missionsolutions group.
“Likwe any company trying to attract andretaih high-quality people, we were looking for more than just a This building has environmentally-friendly featurew the new generation of employees is looking for,” said Matthes Warnock, director of public relations at QinetiQ. He said the buildintg will also help cut down onoverhead “by a greaty deal,” with expected savings of 65 to 70 percentg on power consumption througg the use of virtualization softwarr and green technology to reducre heating and utility costs.
He adds that the buildinyg sits right off a bike traik and was built onan east-to-wesrt access, which means employees can take advantagde of a full day of sunlight and cut down on