Post 200 The 2011 guide to the region's top businesses

SunTrust Bank Northrop Grumman Lockheed Martin HSBC Bank USA Hilton Worldwide BAE Systems Citigroup Wal-Mart AT&T Comcast Giant Food (Ahold USA) General Dynamics Geico Verizon Gannett Wells Fargo FedEx Bank of America CSC AES UPS Danaher BB&T MedStar Health ATK PNC Financial Services Science Applications International Corp McDonald's Johns Hopkins Medicine Mars Safeway Sunrise Senior Living Booz Allen Hamilton Macy's Interstate Hotels & Resorts M&T Capital One Financial American Red Cross Sodexo Marriott International NII Holdings Maximus Micros Systems Mitre Washington Post Co. Navy Federal Credit Union Smithsonian Institution Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom ManTech International Pepco Holdings Population Services International QinetiQ North America Brickman Group CACI International Ratner W.R. Grace CGI Children's National Medical Center Ciena Clark Enterprises Coventry Health Care Adventist HealthCare Discovery Communications University of Maryland at College Park Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Allegis Group George Mason University George Washington University Georgetown University TASC Howard University ICF International Synutra International Inova Health System ITT Exelis K&L Gates American Woodmark Strayer Education SRA International NCI Corporate Executive Board Primus Telecommunications Group NVR K12 Blackboard ARINC GP Strategies American University Choice Hotels International Vornado/Charles E. Smith TeleCommunication Systems Holland & Knight M.C. Dean Arbitron AARP American Chemical Society AvalonBay Communities Orbital Sciences MicroStrategy Catalyst Health Solutions American Institutes for Research Darcars Automotive Group Deltek DAI WilmerHale Advisory Board Colfax USEC Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld Dewberry Long & Foster Total Wine & More Covington and Burling Feld Entertainment Alion Science and Technology Thompson Hospitality Rosetta Stone CoStar Group VSE United Therapeutics Presidio Arnold & Porter Brownstein Hyatt CapitalSource Carlyle Group Chindex International Cogent Communications ComScore Crowell and Moring Donohoe Emergent BioSolutions ePlus Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner GeoEye GTSI Hitt Contracting Human Genome Sciences Intelsat Intersections Kettler Keyw Learning Tree International Liquidity Services Monumental Sports and Entertainment National Geographic Society Neustar Online Resources Opnet Technologies Ourisman Automotive Enterprises Patton Boggs Pentagon Federal Credit Union Steptoe and Johnson TNS Tower Federal Credit Union Trex USA Mobility Versar WGL Holdings Wiley Rein Legal Services Corp. Williams & Jensen LaSalle Hotel Properties James G. Davis Construction Intelligent Decisions ImmixGroup Host Hotels and Resorts Hogan Lovells First Potomac Realty Trust Tier Technologies Wills Group Federal Realty Investment Trust XcelHR American Capital FBR & Co. DuPont Fabros Technology DiamondRock Hospitality Ogilvy Government Relations D.C. United Van Scoyoc Associates Corporation for Public Broadcasting Northwest Federal Credit Union Corporate Office Properties Trust Cassidy and Associates Bank Fund Staff Federal Credit Union Washington Nationals ATS Corp. Washington Real Estate Investment Trust Washington Redskins Argan Virginia Commerce Iridium Communications RLJ Lodging Trust Radio One Saul Centers Podesta Group New Enterprise Associates Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. MicroTech Sourcefire

Note: Text size indicates total number of employees. Darker text color indicates a higher percentage of local employees.

NOTE: Our methodology for the rankings.
DATE: December 15, 2011.
CREDIT: Dan Beyers, Abha Bhattarai, Emily Chow and Jeremy Bowers - The Washington Post.