Osama Malik, principal for digital strategy and management at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said that low-code platforms can help organizations automate information technology modernization processes and reduce system maintenance and development costs.

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has been appointed to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors. Desch brings to the council more than 35 years of experience in the telecommunications and global wireless industries, NVTC said Tuesday. Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, is a member of President …

Northern Virginia Technology Council board members and member company executives held a meeting with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) on June 7 to discuss how H-1B non-immigrant visas help technology firms and universities gain access to highly-skilled employees. NVTC leaders told Cotton how H-1B visas help companies employ workers to fill …

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on potential industry sources that can help the service branch to design, build, test, implement and sustain an enterprise-grade contract writing system. In a FedBizOpps notice published Monday, the Air Force looks to configure and further develop the Defense Information Systems Agency-hosted Integrated Defense …

Salient CRGT Inc. has received a three-year, $15 million task order through its Guident subsidiary to operate and maintain the applications of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. Salient CRGT will work with partners VersaTech and Appian to perform information technology support for CVM applications, systems and …

Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of the U.S. public sector at HP Enterprise Services, has won the Tech Executive of the Year award from the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Crouther accepted the recognition Monday at NVTC’s TechCelebration annual banquet in Virginia, the tech council said Monday. Crouther, an inductee into Executive …

The Washington Post has selected several GovCon firms for recognition in the newspaper’s annual list of the 150 “Top Workplaces” in the greater Washington area. The Post chose the recipients based on overall employee perceptions of leadership quality, pay and benefits and work-life balance strategies at the organizations. Companies selected for the …

The nonprofit organization Women in Technology has selected a group of executives from the public and private sectors to receive its 2015 Leadership Awards, which recognize female executives for their leadership roles in the industry. WIT said Thursday it honored the recipients of the 16th annual Women in Technology during a ceremony at the …

Booz Allen Hamilton has joined a program run by the University of Maryland that helps place students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics at participating companies through internships and jobs. The company will also sponsor a computer science student with a $5,000 scholarship and contribute to a …

This week, General Dynamics awarded Lockheed Martin a deal in conjunction with the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical deal; CSC won a deal from the U.S. Army to provide technical and engineering support for its Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center. QinetiQ picked up a Navy deal; Appian won a …