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Photo courtesy Loudoun County Economic Development
Jun 25, 2020

Loudoun County funds 400 additional small businesses

Loudoun County Economic Development on Tuesday randomly selected 400 local small businesses to each receive $5,000 COVID-19 Business Interruption Fund grants, totaling $2 million. The funding was allocated from the $36.1 million in federal funding to Loudoun County from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) A[...]

Jun 25, 2020

Reston security firm acquired by French company

Reston-based managed security firm Paladion will be acquired by Bezons, France-based information technology company Atos.  A transaction amount was not disclosed.  “We found with Paladion a mature team and advanced technology built to deliver outcomes and reduce customers risks,” Pierre Barnabé, Atos senior executive vice president and head of big data and cybersecurity, said in […]

Jun 24, 2020

McLean company to send six satellites into orbit

Los Angeles-based aerospace manufacturer Relativity Space announced Wednesday that McLean-based Iridium Communications Inc. has signed a contract to deliver up to six of Irdium’s satellites into orbit. Iridium currently operates a network of 66 satellites used for mobile voice and data communications. A contract amount was[...]

Manuel Miranda. Photo courtesy Electrosoft
Jun 24, 2020

Reston network security firm taps new president

Reston-based tech and network security company Electrosoft announced Wednesday it has hired Manuel Miranda as its new president. In his new role, he will focus on company growth, business development, customer operations, information technology, human resources and recruiting. Before joining Electrosoft, Miranda had been chief o[...]

Jun 24, 2020

Reston tech firm names chief technology officer

Reston-based data and analytics tech firm Hitachi Vantara Federal Corp. announced Wednesday it has promoted Gary Hix to chief technology officer. As CTO, he will ensure products meet federal standards and work with the company’s government clients to develop new products. Hix most recently led the Hitachi Vantara Federal s[...]

Jun 24, 2020

Health care providers fear cancellation of telehealth coverage after pandemic ceases

FAIRFAX, Va. — Meg Fregoso, a nurse practitioner, used to see patients who previously had a lung transplant at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Now she uses telehealth to meet patients. Fregoso is one of many health care providers offering more telehealth services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, providers are concerned that they will no longer […]

Jun 24, 2020

Va. hotel revenues remain down

As the lodging industry struggles to bounce back from the economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia hotel revenues for the week ending June 20 dropped by 65% compared with the same period in 2019, according to new data from STR Inc., a division of CoStar Group providing market data on the hospitality […]

Jun 24, 2020

S.C. manufacturer relocating to Grayson County

Metalworx Inc., a manufacturer of highly-engineered and precision-manufactured components, assemblies and products for industrial uses, is investing $7.6 million to relocate its headquarters and manufacturing operations from South Carolina to the former Core Fitness Complex in Grayson County, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday. Virginia competed with North Carolina for the project, which will create […][...]

Jun 24, 2020

TowneBank and CHKD buy Norfolk Southern Tower for $30M

UPDATED JULY 2 | Suffolk-based TowneBank and Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD) have jointly purchased the 22-story Norfolk Southern Tower in downtown Norfolk from the Fortune 500 railroad corporation, which is in the process of migrating its corporate headquarters to Atlanta.  The building sold for [...]

David Mitchell. Photo courtesy LeaseAccelerator Inc.
Jun 23, 2020

Reston software company selects chief revenue officer

Reston-based lease management software company LeaseAccelerator Inc. announced Tuesday it has named David Mitchell as its chief revenue officer.  Mitchell was most recently senior vice president of worldwide sales at McLean-based cloud computing company Appian Corp. In his new role, he will focus on sales execution in North Ame[...]

Screenshot of GeoSpark Analytics' coronavirus dashboard
Jun 23, 2020

HHS contracts Herndon company for COVID-19 modeling

Herndon-based artificial intelligence company GeoSpark Analytics Inc. announced Tuesday it has been awarded a five-year, multimillion-dollar contract to provide COVID-19 and infectious disease modeling for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). An exact contract amount was not disclosed.  “If we’ve learn[...]

Jun 23, 2020

Boston media company buys Reston marketing automation firm

Reston-based marketing automation company Triblio has been acquired by Boston-based tech marketing and media company IDG Communications, the companies announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Triblio, which was founded in 2013 by former employees of Oracle’s software-as-a-service product Eloqua, focuses on account-based marketing (ABM).  “Triblio is the most complete ABM platform […][...]

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