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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 solut[...]
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 […]
Northern Virginia Technology Council chooses acting CEO
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced Wednesday that Brad Schwartz will serve as its acting president and CEO starting July 1. He succeeds Bobbie Kilberg, who announced her June 30 retirement in October 2019 after 22 years at the helm of the membership and trade association for the region’s tech industr[...]
Metro Silver Line service to resume Aug. 16
Metro will resume Silver Line service and reopen six Fairfax County stations on Aug. 16, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced Wednesday. The six stations are the five “west-of-Ballston” Silver Line stations (McLean, Tysons Corner, Greensboro, Spring Hill and Wiehle-Reston East) plus one Orange Line station: West Falls Church. The remaining three west-of-Ballston stations […][...]
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 […]
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 […][...]
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 $30 mill[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 […][...]
Navy raises General Dynamics submarine contract to $9.47B
Reston-based Fortune 100 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics Corp. on Tuesday received an $869 million modification to its 2017 contract to produce two U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines. The modification raises the contract value to $9.47 billion. The original Integrated Product and Process Development contrac[...]
Phase Three reopening starts July 1
Virginia will enter Phase Three of the state’s Forward Virginia reopening plan on Wednesday, July 1, ending restrictions on restaurants, retail stores and bars, among other changes, Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday. “This gives us about three-and-a-half weeks of Phase Two where we have been able to follow the data,[...]
