RESTON, VA – Tues. Dec. 9. 2025 – Foundry’s Computerworld announces MetroStar as a 2026 Best Place to Work in IT, marking the company’s fifteenth win. This award recognizes the top organizations that challenge their IT staff while providing great benefits, engagement and training opportunities.
"MetroStar’s enduring strength is rooted in the incredible people who shape our culture and propel our work,” said Debbie Peterson, MetroStar’s SVP of People & Culture. “We bring that same dedication to our customers empowering our teams to lead with heart, innovate boldly, and deliver meaningful mission outcomes."
Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, MetroStar has spent nearly three decades accelerating mission outcomes across Defense and National Security. The company combines deep domain expertise with advanced AI-enabled solutions that deliver time-to-value at mission speed, helping agencies deploy technology faster, make smarter decisions, and achieve impact sooner. The company’s expertise has earned a first place title in IT growth by Computerworld for small organizations (1,000 employees or less).
MetroStar’s recent launch of Mira, an AI-powered Digital Labor solution built on Microsoft Azure AI, exemplifies the company’s people-first approach to innovation. Designed to enhance—not replace—the human experience, Mira supports recruitment by providing mission-aligned, personalized interactions for candidates while freeing internal recruitment teams to focus on strategic, high-value work.
The Best Places to Work in IT list by Computerworld honors top organizations for technology professionals, recognizing excellence in benefits, career development, culture, modernization, and employee engagement. Rankings are determined through a comprehensive review process and vetted by industry experts.
“It’s clear that AI is having a disruptive impact on IT operations and IT talent,” says Barbara Call, Global Director of Content Strategy at Foundry. “This year’s honorees demonstrated how organizations are proactively evolving their talent strategies to fill much-needed skills gaps and reskill existing staff to be more resilient and responsive to changing needs.”
MetroStar is a trusted provider of AI-enabled solutions for U.S. government agencies, advancing the nation’s most critical missions through speed, innovation, and purpose. With a focus on AI, digital transformation, and secure enterprise modernization, MetroStar delivers technology that translates mission needs into capability at record pace, empowering defense and national security leaders to outpace emerging threats and accelerate mission success. For more information, visit www.metrostar.com.
Computerworld is the leading technology media brand empowering enterprise users and their managers, helping them create business advantage by skillfully exploiting today's abundantly powerful web, mobile, and desktop applications. Computerworld also offers guidance to IT managers tasked with optimizing client systems—and helps businesses revolutionize the customer and employee experience with new collaboration platforms. Computerworld's award-winning website (www.computerworld.com), strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world's largest global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld is published by Foundry. Company information is available at www.foundryco.com.