McLean AI health care startup raises $111 million
A McLean-based health care tech startup wants to provide more targeted medical treatments for people with cancer, heart disease and other common diseases. Zephyr AI, founded in 2020, is a precision medicine company on a mission to democratize personalized medicine and is doing it by developing artificial intelligence-powered algorithms that can glean insights from health […]
Weidmuller USA hires president and CEO
Randy Sadler is the new president and CEO of Chesterfield County-based industrial connectivity and automation company Weidmuller USA, German parent company Weidmüller Group announced Thursday. Sadler succeeds Bernd Schröder, who died unexpectedly in late 2023. Weidmüller Group creates smart industrial connectivity products and solutions to connect and automate electrical power and signaling [...]
Chips ahoy
Finally, the world is catching up with Virginia Tech‘s semiconductor curriculum. Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering started a chip-scale integration major in 2016, but it wasn’t exactly high profile when Sheena Deivasigamani arrived at Virginia Tech as a first-year engineering student in 2019. Chip-scale integration wasn’t even on Deivasigamani’s radar. Tech was t[...]
Google investing $1B in Va. data center campuses
Google is investing $1 billion in expanding its Virginia data center campuses this year and is launching a $75 million Google.org AI Opportunity Fund, one of Google’s top executives and Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday at Google’s Reston office. “Today is a great day. We’ve got a $1 billion investment in the commonwealth that we’re […]
Digital divide
In a relatively short time, Josh Thomas has seen the Prince William County district he represents in the Virginia House of Delegates transform from farmland and residential neighborhoods to massive buildings filled with the digital infrastructure that stores, processes and distributes huge amounts of information across the global internet, from cloud computing for businesses to […]
Rocket Lab USA launches first US mission for NRO from Wallops
California-based Rocket Lab USA successfully launched a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office on Thursday from Launch Complex 2 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Accomack County, the aerospace company announced. The Eastern Shore mission, dubbed “Live and Let Fly,” was Rocket Lab’s first launch from U.S. soil for the NRO, which builds, designs, […]
JLL: NoVa is still nation’s top data center market
Northern Virginia remains the country’s largest data center market, according to a report released Monday by real estate company JLL. The 581 megawatts of capacity leased by energized — or built-out — data centers in Northern Virginia for 2023 represented a new record, according to the JLL report. Data centers leased 184 MW in capacity […]
New president and CEO named for Herndon’s Deltek
Deltek announced Tuesday that Bob Hughes will become the Herndon-based software company’s president and CEO in April when current leader Mike Corkery moves to an operating group executive role at Roper Technologies, Deltek’s Florida-based parent company. Previously, Hughes worked as an executive at Kronos, a workforce management software company. When Kronos merged with Ultimate Soft[...]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: ANEESH CHOPRA
FIRST JOB: Bellhop at a Ramada Inn outside of Princeton, New Jersey MOST VALUED POSSESSION: My wedding ring HOW I UNWIND FROM WORK: Playing tag with the kids in the backyard HOW I CHOSE MY CAREER: I was inspired by President Clinton to solve national problems through better use of technology. HOW I BALANCE MY […]
Slowly bot surely
From health care to real estate and law, artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly bigger part of many industries, with executives rolling out new tools and updating policies. Like other businesses, banks and credit unions too have been exploring this electronic frontier, although they’re pairing technological progress with caution. Even if you’re new to the […]
Babel Street acquires Ohio data insights firm
Reston-based data analytics and threat intelligence tech company Babel Street has acquired Vertical Knowledge, a data products, insights and intelligence company based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The acquisition — which has already closed — expands Babel Street’s data sourcing, enrichment and analysis capabilities, according to a news release from the two companies. Babel Street has [&hellip[...]
McLean-based ARG announces new president, CEO
McLean-based IT consulting firm ARG has made several changes to its executive leadership, as its president and CEO retire and move to board memberships. ARG co-owner and former CEO Greg Praske is now chairman of the 2024-25 board of directors, and Steve Praske, ARG co-owner and former president, is vice chairman of the board, according […]