Attain, a year-old firm based in Vienna that provides operational, support and IT services to government clients, on Monday announced several key hires. The company named Michael Fox as its vice president of corporate business development and chief strategy officer, Timothy Hays as a partner in research and healthcare solutions and Richard Roberts as its president of federal services. Fox most recently served as a senior vice president at SRA International, Hays was federal director of the Research, Condition and Disease Categorization project at NIH, and Roberts was the chairman, executive vice president of global public services and COO at BearingPoint. The hires come at a time of rapid growth for Attain, which has closed 26 new contracts and contract continuations worth more than $13 million since September. The firm, which has about 200 employees, was co-founded by Greg Baroni the former president of federal systems at Unisy