AeroAstro Inc., an Ashburn provider of satellite
technology and services, won a contract from NASA to
develop electronic satellite communication systems with
much finer redundancy by using reusable circuit blocks. (PRNewswire)
The Equal Footing Foundation of Herndon, the
charitable arm of the Northern Virginia Technology
Council, chose Wills & Associates Inc. of
Bethesda,
Md., as its public relations agency. Wills will help
the foundation increase awareness of the Computer Clubhouse,
an after-school education program for youth ages 8-18
in
Northern Virginia. (PRNewswire)
LevelVison, a Roanoke-based producer of digital
advertising displays (formerly known as IntelliMat) entered
a partnership with
Roanoke athletic apparel distributor C&N Sports to
market LevelVision’s IntelliMat digital floor displays
to approximately 750 colleges bookstores nationwide. (News
release)
Interstate Hotels &
Resorts, an
Arlington hotel management company, formed a joint venture
with
Maryland’s Meisel Capital Partners to buy the Radisson
Hotel Cross Keys in
Baltimore for $17 million. Interstate also entered into
a long-term management agreement for the 147-room facility. (PRNewswire)
MicroStrategy, a McLean-based provider of business
intelligence software, renewed a marketing and joint
business development deal with SPSS Inc. of Chicago,
a provider of analytic software, to create forecasting
models for businesses. (PRNewswire) MicroStrategy
also secured deals with KB Toys Inc. for software to
track inventory; with shipping firm DHL Express to provide
analysis services in sales, marketing and other operations;
and with Priceline.com to track search engine marketing
data to target online advertising efforts. (The
Washington Post)
Orbital Sciences Corp., a Dulles provider of
satellite operations, received an order from Optus Networks
of Australia for a communications satellite to provide
director television broadcasting services to
Australia
and
New Zealand
. Delivery is scheduled for 2009. (News release)
Royal Caribbean International, a Miami-based
cruise line operator just beginning its first season
in
Norfolk, announced it will return to
Norfolk in 2008. Based on strong bookings for its inaugural
season, Royal Caribbean will service
Norfolk departures with a larger ship. (The Virginia-Pilot)
Trainikins Inc. of
Lynchburg entered into a distribution agreement in
Japan
with IMI CO. Ltd to sell a version of its CPR Teddy,
an instructive tool to teach parents how to treat a child
who is choking or has stopped breathing. (News release)
Virginia reached agreement with a construction
consortium led by Bechtel Inc. to begin expansion of
the Metro rail line to
Washington
Dulles
International
Airport. Cost estimate for first phase of the project
by Dulles Transit Partners is between $2.4 and
2.7 billion. (The
Washington Post)
Virginia Tech and Corning Inc. entered into partnerships
with research and development operations in
India
to advance work on clean, sustainable energy sources.
The initial phase of work will focus on research on fuel
cells. (News release)
