The balance of buying power is swinging, but Uncle Sam is still the biggest customer for Northern Virginia's ITT industry. BTG survived the conclusion of the Cold War. Founded in 1982, the company has evolved from a small systems integrator for the military to a sophisticated, 1,600-worker ITT enterprise that handles everything from computer networking to data fusion. It's a ratio that will change, promises BTG Chairman and CEO Edward Bersoff. It's hard to grow the commercial business all by itself.
Successful companies stay hungry.
In the meantime, federal business remains solid, says Paul Lombardi, CEO and president of DynCorp. They're about four levels of efficiency below where they want to be. Lombardi's DynCorp was founded in 1946 as a small airline and aircraft maintenance services company. Today it's a global operation with 4,000 employees in Virginia and 17,500 worldwide. The Pentagon developed a crude precursor to the Internet called Darpanet.