As the U.S. faces an increasingly competitive global marketplace, leaders within the greater metropolitan Washington, D.C. area must also work to advocate for improving education, infrastructure and low-cost energy if the region’s technology business is to continue moving forward, a group of industry executives said today.
Regional leaders must also do more to ensure an adequate technology workforce continues to flow into the regional economy, and its broad base of technology, communications and other technical services businesses. Keep reading →
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