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Most Americans will have to rely on their savings to fund their retirement, but financial stress makes it hard for many workers to save. A new CNBC Your Money Survey conducted by SurveyMonkey found that 74% of Americans are feeling financially stressed, up from 70% in an April survey. About 37% of respondents indicated that they are “very stressed” about their personal finances, compared to only 30% in April.

A fast-casual chain known for its salad and stir fry is opening three more Greater Baltimore locations this year. Honeygrow’s newest restaurants are coming to Columbia, Timonium and Annapolis by the end of this fall. The planned restaurants will bring the company’s Maryland spots to nine, with eight being in Greater Baltimore.

The pizza is hand-crafted with dough fermented for 72 hours, making it both chewy and crunchy, the savory tomato sauce is made with only natural ingredients, and fresh, rich cheese crowns each slice. That is Andy’s Pizza and it’s that attention to detail that won it the title of world champion for best traditional cheese pizza at the 2021 International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas.

Columbia cyber company Sealing Technologies Inc. is now part of one of the country’s largest government contractors after a deal worth up to $200 million. Centreville, Virginia-based Parsons Corp. (NYSE: PSN) hopes to leverage Sealing Tech’s expertise to boost its artificial intelligence products, add new government clients and establish a stronger foothold in the expanding cybersecurity industry. Sealing Tech will be a standalone subsidiary within Parsons.

Sports betting has finally come to Montgomery County — just in time for football season. Sports & Social, a large sports-themed restaurant in North Bethesda, began taking bets over Labor Day weekend after the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission issued a wagering license to Whitman Gaming Inc. and FanDuel, the entities operating the sportsbook within Sports & Social.

The view from the 11th floor of a Harbor East office tower has given new perspective to the nearly 100-person DLA Piper Baltimore office. The firm ended a 23-year stay on a leafy, sprawling campus in Mt. Washington to move to 650 S. Exeter St. in June. DLA’s 10-year lease there allows the firm to join Gordon Feinblatt LLC, Hogan Lovells LLP and Saul Ewing LLP at the upscale waterfront enclave that seems like a world away from some older office buildings in the nearby central business district.

Ten Lockheed Martin-built satellites have successfully been deployed into low-Earth orbit (LEO) in support of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer (T0TL) mission. SDA’s T0TL is a proliferated LEO constellation that will demonstrate low-latency communication and provide a resilient network of integrated capabilities.