Ms. Armstrong has more than 25 years of experience in technology journalism and publishing. She spent a number of years editing IT publications, including the primary publication of the American Society for Information Science. She founded Langley Publications in 1984 to cover storage technologies. Ms. Armstrong was on the launch team for FCW in 1987 and became editor in 1992, a position she held until 1999 when she became president of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. CIT is a non-profit created by Virginia to spur the growth of technology businesses in the commonwealth. She returned to FCW in September 2002 as publisher and business unit leader.

Ms. Armstrong has a B.A. degree in English from Vanderbilt University and a master's in the history of ideas from Johns Hopkins University.