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SAIC nets $727M Air Force contract
Reston-based information technology company Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) received a $727 million contract from the U.S. Air Force that will move mission applications for the Air Force and Army to the cloud, SAIC announced Friday. SAIC was founded in 2013 and provides systems engineering, cloud migration, analytics, simulation, training and other IT services to […]
Reston-based Ellucian names chief product officer
Reston-based higher education software company Ellucian has named Stephen Laster as its chief product officer, the company announced Friday. Ellucian provides products for higher education such as student information systems, data analytics tools and graduation-tracking platforms for more than 2,700 customers. Laster will lead p[...]
Advantia Health receives $45M investment
Arlington-based Advantia Health, which facilitates women’s health care services via its online platform, announced Friday that it received a $45 million investment from New York City-based investment management company BlueMountain Capital Management. Advantia connects customers to OB-GYN, primary care, mental wellness and specialist care providers. The company will use the investment to hire more providers, […][...]
McLean software company acquires Richmond firm
McLean-based software company KLDiscovery Inc. has completed its 12th acquisition in seven years, buying Richmond-based legal services company Superior Document Services (SDS), KLDiscovery announced Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. SDS was founded in 1998 by Kriss Wilson and Renee Covington. The company provides litigation copying, scanning and database hosting to legal […][...]
Lynchburg’s BWX Technologies promotes Rick Loving to senior VP
Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier BWX Technologies Inc. promoted Richard “Rick” W. Loving to senior vice president and chief administrative officer, the company announced Thursday. Loving has 40 years of experience previously working for energy company Babcock & Wilcox Co. and engineering company McDer[...]
Arlington cloud security company appoints two execs
Arlington-based cloud security company DivvyCloud appointed Brandie Kalinowski as vice president of people and culture and David Geevaratne as vice president of North American Sales, the company announced Thursday. Kalinowski most recently was head of people operations at Etsy in Brooklyn, New York. She will focus on recruitin[...]
Reston’s SOC Telemed names new Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Jason Hallock was named as Reston-based acute-care telemedicine company SOC Telemed’s chief medical officer, the company announced Wednesday. Hallock has more than 20 years of health care experience working in hospital systems. In his new role, he will oversee management of clinical and medical objectives. He most recently worked for US Acute Care Solutions, […]
Tysons cloud computing firm acquires Spanish software company
Tysons-based cloud computing company Appian Corp. has acquired Seville, Spain-based software company Novayre Solutions SL, developer of the Jidoka Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not released. RPA is the use of specialized computer programs to automate repeatable business processes. Using RPA, companies can process transactions, manipulate data, trigger responses […][...]
Newport News medical device company appoints new CFO
Newport News-based medical device company ivWatch LLC announced three executive appointments on Monday, including Teresa “Terry” Blevins as chief financial officer, Erin Wendell as chief marketing officer and Paul Stoddard as vice president of sales. Blevins has more than 30 years of experience in financial planning and most recently worked as CFO for Hampton-based defense […]
New Sim Lab gives nursing students real-life experience
If you thought simulators were just for pilots and astronauts, think again. Nursing students at Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC) can now train on complex, real-life patient-care scenarios inside the Clinical Simulation Lab for Nursing Education at Sovah Health’s Martinsville campus. The Sim Lab, which opens this month, f[...]
JMU program gets into hackers’ heads
From governments to corporations, cybersecurity has become a major focus in protecting customer privacy and assets — but a small group at James Madison University is also thinking about the hackers who commit crimes and what motivates them. In February, three students will be the first to finish the university’s graduate cyb[...]
Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband service comes to Hampton Roads
Verizon announced Monday that its 5G Ultra Wideband mobility service is now active in Hampton Roads. The service is available in 31 cities across the country and works on seven mobile phone models. The fifth-generation cellular network covers several parts of the region, including Virginia Beach Oceanfront, downtown Norfolk, Newport News, Old Dominion University, Hampton […]
