STG Wins Key U.S. Army Logistics Contract

07/14/11 RESTON, Va. | STG, Inc. (STG) has been awarded a $3.25 million prime contract to support the National Warheads and Energetics (NWEC)/Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) Logistics Research...

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Female, Minority Entrepreneur Imports Food Culture While Changing Perspectives

07/13/11 A niche audience provides an emerging food importer with a compelling story to support a compelling productNew York, NY (PRWEB) July 13, 2011 Virginia based businesswoman and all around foodie, Lisa Mushaw, is breaking down barriers by joining a small group of minority-owned European food importers in the United States. Global food import is projected to be a robust 1.2 billion dollar business ...

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Edwards state finalist in national pageant

07/13/11 Taylor Edwards will be representing her hometown of Mechanicsville as a state finalist in the National American Miss Virginia Pageant to be held on July 30 in Reston

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Loudoun Travel Softball Teams Held To Nationals

07/13/11 Several local youth fastpitch softball teams have the opportunity to play for a national championship. The Screaming Eagles Red 12UC, Loudoun Storm 10U and the Ashburn Shooting Stars will begin tournament play later this month.

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Longtime City Resident, CIA Employee Dies

07/12/11 Longtime Falls Church City resident Mary-Paget S. Langalis, 81, died at home July 10, ending a 15-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Read more...

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STG given SPAWAR contract

07/08/11 RESTON, Va., July 8 (UPI) -- STG Inc. of Virginia will support the U.S. Navy's C4ISR systems worldwide under a contract from the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center-Atlantic.

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GRS Receives Minority Investment from FedCap Partners

07/08/11 RESTON, Va., -- Global Resource Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of mission and operational suppo...

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LinkedIn Passes Myspace to Become No. 2 U.S. Social Network

07/08/11 LinkedIn Corp., a website focused on job seekers and recruiters, surpassed Myspace to become the No. 2 social-networking service in the U.S. last month, boosted by its initial public offering in May.

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Thomas Riordan, former managing editor at the Jackson Citizen Patriot, dies of congestive heart failure

07/08/11 Thomas A. RiordanThomas A. Riordan, a former managing editor at the Jackson Citizen Patriot, died Wednesday in Bradenton, Fla. He was 89 and died of congestive heart failure.Riordan, a native of Detroit spent most of his adult life as a...

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Don Rainey Appointed to James Madison University Board of Visitors

07/07/11 Don Rainey of Grotech Ventures (Hunt Valley, MD & McLean, VA) was appointed to the James Madison...

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Officials diplomatic toward Dulles Metro

07/07/11 Metro officials avoided taking sides Thursday over a compromise proposal to move a planned underground rail station at Washington Dulles International Airport above ground to save money, but board members warned the final choice should not be at the expense of transit or customer service. Metro General Manager Richard Sarles ...

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FedCap Partners Acquires Point One

06/30/11 FedCap Partners, LLC, a private equity fund, through its holding company National Security Partners, Inc., acquired Point One, LLC and FuGEN, Inc. from XeDAR Corporation.

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Arts Calendar

06/30/11 Swing Dance with Jimmy Cole Band, July 1, 9 p.m. to midnight; drop-in beginner lesson, 8:30-9 p.m. $15. Hilton Washington Dulles Hotel, 13869 Park Center Road, Herndon. Call 703-359-9882 or visit www.gottaswing.com.

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Weddings and Engagements

06/30/11 Sharon Pell of Franklin, Pa., has announced the engagement of her daughter, Lindsay Jo Pell, to Robert Monier Ryder, son of Robert and Marlene Ryder of Reston. Lindsay is also the daughter of the late R. Scott Pell Sr.

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Sony, Astellas, Intel, Apple, Wal-Mart, Warner: Intellectual Property

06/30/11 Sony Corp. (6758) , Samsung Techwin Co. and Robert Bosch GmbH were named in a U.S. trade complaint filed by closely held ObjectVideo Inc., alleging infringement of patents for video analytics software.

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FBI hits Latvian scareware peddlers who infected 1 million

06/23/11 The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken aim at two Latvian gangs that allegedly made tens of millions of dollars by sneaking fake virus warnings onto victims' computers and then charging them to clean up the mess. It's called scareware, and it's become a big problem for Internet users. According to the FBI, one of the groups infected 960,000 computers, costing users $72 million. A ...

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Chamber Leaders Call On MWAA To Cut Costs

06/23/11 A group of Northern Virginia's largest Chambers of Commerce are calling on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority board of directors to cut costs on the Dulles Rail Phase 2 project. If not, they contend, the project may fail.

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Web-hosting firm says FBI took servers in raid

06/22/11 More than 120 websites have been down for over a day after the FBI removed servers from a web-hosting company in Northern Virginia in an early morning raid on Tuesday, according to the company that runs that facility. FBI officials declined comment on the matter.

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FBI disrupts international cybercrime rings distributing 'scareware'

06/22/11 WASHINGTON, D.C. : U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday announced that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), along with other international law enforcement agencies, has indicted two citizens from Latvia and disrupted international cybercrime rings which were distributing so-called scareware.

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Citizens for Legitimate Government--22 June 2011

06/22/11 Japan has cancelled a tsunami alert after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck in the north-east of the country, rattling the areas hardest hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami disasters. The Japan Meteorological Agency said this morning the latest jolt ...

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