According to founder Ahmad Ishaq, it has been a spectacular year of growth for government tech consulting firm ByteCubed. Though the company was founded back in 2011, it spent its first couple years boasting only two real employees (Ishaq and his wife) and an “office” in their condo.

But oh how things have changed. This past Friday ByteCubed officially cut the ribbon on its new 17,000-square-foot headquarters at 2231 Crystal Dr., a new home to the company’s 150 employees.

See, ByteCubed is a government consulting firm that wants to change the way the government does tech. It “specializes in reimagining and replacing government systems,” according to a statement on the new office. For the first couple years of the company’s existence it did this by partnering with larger contracting firms to get jobs. But about 36 months ago, Ishaq said, he realized that the way forward for ByteCubed was to go do it on their own.

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