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Mar 19, 2020

MicroStrategy CEO draws fire for denying COVID-19 is health crisis

Michael Saylor, the CEO of Tysons-based tech company MicroStrategy Inc., wrote a later-redacted three-page memo to his 2,400 employees this week arguing that COVID-19 is not a public health crisis and saying he refused to close down MicroStrategy’s offices and shift to teleworking unless he was legally required to do so. In the letter, he […]

David Brown, Learning Tree CEO
Mar 18, 2020

Herndon-based Learning Tree names new CEO

Herndon-based information technology and management training course provider Learning Tree International Inc. on Wednesday named David Brown as its new CEO and a member of the board of directors. Brown most recently worked as the global head of sales and services for information services company Clarivate Analytics. He also previously worked for international multimedia company […]

Mar 18, 2020

Falls Church company sends text from space satellite to phone

Falls Church-based wireless network company Lynk Global Inc. said Wednesday that it has sent a text message from a satellite in space to a standard mobile phone on Earth.  “This is a game-changer for the billions of people who own a mobile phone, for the billions who do not have affordable connectivity, and for the […]

Mar 11, 2020

Tysons-based IT company announces new leadership

Tysons-based information technology company Applied Insight announced Wednesday several executive appointments including a new executive chairman, CEO, chief product officer, chief technology officer and chief financial officer.  Former CEO John Hynes has taken on the role of executive chairman. “As executive chairman, I’ll be providing strategic counsel to the leadership and working to e[...]

Ken Corless, DXC Technology executive vice president, offerings and strategic partners
Mar 7, 2020

DXC Technology names executive vice president, offerings and strategic partners

Tysons-based DXC Technology named Ken Corless as executive vice president, offerings and strategic partners, on Friday. Corless will be based in the company’s Chicago office. Corless was most recently the chief technology officer for Deloitte’s Cloud Practice in his 30-year career in the information technology industry. Before Deloitte, he spent more than 28 years at […]

Mar 4, 2020

OBXtek Inc. wins $44.2M State Dept. contract

McLean-based information technology government contractor OBXtek Inc. was awarded a five-year, $44.2 million contract from the Department of State to support the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Technical Security Engineering (TSE) Division, OBXtek announced Wednesday. OBXtek will provide program management, operational support and administrative support, as well as developing training analys[...]

(L to R) Virginia Chief Workforce Development Advisor Megan Healy; Fairfax County Economic Development Authority CEO Victor Hoskins; Northern Virginia Community College President Anne Kress with Alarm.com apprentices, Alarm.com CEO Stephen Trundle and Vice President of Human Resources Victoria Schillinger. Photo courtesy Northern Virginia Community College
Feb 21, 2020

Alarm.com launches apprenticeship program

In cooperation with Northern Virginia Community College, Tysons-based Alarm.com launched an apprenticeship program Friday aimed at producing workers with in-demand tech skills. Supported by the state’s GO Virginia economic development initiative, 10 initial apprentices, including three from the military community, will participate in Alarm.com’s paid yearlong apprenticeship program. Th[...]

Feb 20, 2020

Falls Church federal contractor NetImpact Strategies names COO

Falls Church-based federal contractor NetImpact Strategies Inc. promoted Stephanie Wilson to the company’s newly created role of chief operating officer. Most recently, Wilson served as chief strategy officer for the company and focused on business development. She has almost 30 years of experience and has also worked for Anthem’s National Government Services federal platform and [&hel[...]

Feb 19, 2020

Arlington machine learning developer receives $63M investment

Arlington- and Boston-based machine learning developer Carbon Relay received a $63 million investment from New York City-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, the companies announced Wednesday. Carbon Relay will use the investment to grow its Red Sky Ops platform for optimizing application performance in Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes — originally developed by Goog[...]

Feb 19, 2020

UiPath donates $16.4M in software licenses to GMU business school

New York City-based software developer UiPath has donated $16.4 million in software licenses to George Mason University’s School of Business for students to learn robotic process automation (RPA) technologies, the university announced Wednesday. RPA configures computer software for users to integrate human interaction actions in digital systems for business processes. With RPA, robots can ca[...]

John Luongo, IndraSoft chief growth officer
Feb 13, 2020

Reston-based IndraSoft promotes exec to chief growth officer

Reston-based software company IndraSoft Inc. promoted John Luongo to chief growth officer, the company announced Thursday. Luongo joined the company in 2018 and was the vice president of growth and strategy. In his previous role and new role, he will focus on business development and corporate strategy. Before his time at IndraSoft, Luongo worked for […]

Feb 11, 2020

Reston-based tech firm acquires Danish company

Reston-based federal contractor and tech firm SOS International LLC (SOSi) has acquired Denmark-based analytics software company NorthStar Systems, SOSi announced Tuesday, making it the company’s fifth acquisition since 2016, including New World Solutions, Defense Group Inc., STG Group Holdings Inc. and Vykin Corp. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  “We’re continuing t[...]

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