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Friday, May 24, 2013

Now hear this: The Fairfax County E-Bird will not fly  Monday because the FCEDA is observing the Memorial Day holiday. A tip of the ol' editor's green eyeshades to loyal readers who take a moment this weekend to remember all those who died in service to our great country.

Hot off the presses: We told you Wednesday that Amazon Web Services plans to establish a new office in Herndon, creating 500 jobs to support its cloud-computing services for commercial and government customers. It's a media jungle out there, but the Washington Post, Virginia Business, Tech Bisnow and ExecutiveBiz among many others worked up items about this announcement about a company that will further diversify the county's economic base of Our Fair Parish.

Faceoff: Chantilly-based Digital Signal Corporation, which sells 3-D long-range facial recognition technology to government and commercial clients, landed a $50 million investment from Saudi Arabia's Technology Control Corp. Digital Signal plans to use the funding to expand its sales and marketing efforts and establish an international headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. You won't need 3-D glasses to read this Yahoo! release.

C this company grow: Tysons Corner-based event management software firm Cvent announced plans to open an office in London, its first European office. The company said the location will allow it to better support nearly 250 U.K. clients. Put down the fish 'n chips and check this release picked up by Potomac Tech Wire.

Brothers (and sisters) in arms: Just in time for Memorial Day, the Washington Business Journal out today takes a closer look at the efforts by Merrifield-based service-disabled veteran-owned small business CPS Professional Services to help veterans. Check out this story by Christina Huynh -- that's an order, soldier!

What the hack: Andrew Rudin of Vienna-based sales strategy firm Outside Technologies attended the first Hackathon at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in fair Annandale to watch students create demo-ready software. Afterward he wrote in the Customerthink blog that the Washington area is fertile ground for innovation, and he worked in a pithy quote from FCEDA President/CEO Jerry Gordon. Get down to business and check out Rudin's post.

Dogged pursuit of success: Jay Margolis, managing partner of Northern Virginia Veterinary Associates, which has offices in Fairfax, Falls Church, Chantilly and Centreville, shares details of his background in this purr-fect Executive Profile unleashed in the Washington Business Journal out today.

Well, now that you ask: WashingtonExec is asking top area executives what books are on their summer reading list. Paul Leslie, CEO of Tysons Corner-based IT contractor Dovel Technologies covers history and cloud computing on his reading list. 

This week's FairFact:

The combined revenue of the 10 Fairfax County companies among Fortune magazine's list of the 500 biggest companies in the U.S. is $211 billion. That is almost equal to the gross domestic product of the Republic of Ireland.

Notable contract wins:

  • ITT Exelis won a $435 million subcontract to operate and engineer an international communications network for NASA. GovConWire.
     
  • Iron Bow Technologies won a $108 million contract with the U.S. Coast Guard to provide IT services and equipment. GovConWire.

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