March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
American Systems Inc., a Chantilly-based IT solutions provider for the government and commercial sectors, was one of 12 companies chosen to help with development, design and testing of a biometric identification system under a Department of Defense contract. (News release)
March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
Benjamin A. Comm has joined Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers in Washington, D.C., as director of property management.

March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
HCA plans hospital in Goochland County.
March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
ADMMicro Inc., a Roanoke-based energy technology firm, received a patent for an energy-management system and method for the control of multiple sub-loads.
March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
Capon Valley Bank, a Wardensville, W.Va., bank, bought the former BB&T branch office on South Main Street in Stephens City to open a new branch, its second in Frederick County. (The Winchester Star)
March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
Longtime retail analyst thinks entrepreneurial spirit has waned.
March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
Virginia’s attempt to legislate green construction fails.
March 27, 2009 12:00 AM
CRT/tanaka, a Richmond-based public relations firm, has bought Lewis & Neale, a New York-based marketing and communications agency that focuses on the food industry. Mark Raper, the chief executive of CRT/tanaka, said the deal will boost the firm’s revenue by 20 percent. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

March 26, 2009 11:59 PM
Employees at Walker’s Carpets & Interiors used to have a hard time getting around the back lot of its Glen Allen headquarters because it was jammed with 120 40-foot waste receptacles.
March 26, 2009 8:46 AM
A group of four Asian shipping companies has decided to make the Port of Virginia its first stop in the U.S.