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Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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  • General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls Secure New Contract Funds for Navy Arleigh Burke Destroyers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls Secure New Contract Funds for Navy Arleigh Burke Destroyers

    General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries have received additional  funds from the U.S. Navy to help build two more Arleigh Burke-class missile guided destroyers, USNI News reported Wednesday. Megan Eckstein writes the obligated funds are for the seventh and eighth DDG 51 ships under two separate contracts the military service awarded to General Dynamics unit Bath Iron Works and HII division Ingalls Shipbuilding in […] More

  • Inmarsat to Provide Comm Systems for U.K.'s Joint Service Medical Research Expedition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat to Provide Comm Systems for U.K.’s Joint Service Medical Research Expedition

    Inmarsat has been chosen to supply communications equipment to a group of British military personnel who will climb Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal as part of a joint service medical research initiative. The company said Tuesday the British Services Dhaulagiri Medical Research Expedition team will use six IsatPhone 2 phones, an IsatHub satellite connectivity terminal and four Broadband Global Area […] More

  • India Orders 245 Raytheon Stinger Air-to-Air Missiles From US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    India Orders 245 Raytheon Stinger Air-to-Air Missiles From US

    India has placed an order for 245 Raytheon-built Stinger air-to-air missiles, launchers and related engineering support services through the Defense Department‘s foreign military sales program. Raytheon said Wednesday the Indian military expects to receive the Stingers as part of a potential $3.1 billion FMS agreement forged between the governments of India and the U.S. The deal […] More

  • NASA to Start Orion, Space Launch System Base Development at Kennedy Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Start Orion, Space Launch System Base Development at Kennedy Center

    NASA plans to build ground infrastructure to process the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket that the agency plans to launch in 2018 for an unmanned deep-space exploration. The initiative comes after NASA engineers and aerospace specialists completed a comprehensive assessment on proposed spaceport development at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, the agency said Monday. An engineering team […] More

  • Livermore Lab to Use IBM Neuromorphic Tech for Collaborative Supercomputing Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Livermore Lab to Use IBM Neuromorphic Tech for Collaborative Supercomputing Initiative

    IBM has agreed to provide Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory access to a company-made brain-inspired chip architecture as part of a collaborative project to build supercomputer systems. The company said Tuesday LLNL will receive a 16-chip TrueNorth neurosynaptic system that is designed to process data equivalent to 16 million neurons and four billion synapses. IBM’s research business developed […] More

  • Tim King: MTSI to Help Maintain Army SoS Simulation Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim King: MTSI to Help Maintain Army SoS Simulation Facilities

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has been awarded a $63.8 million contract to support the U.S. Army‘s distributed digital simulation and system-of-systems development efforts. Tim King, vice president of MTSI’s army and missile defense division, said Tuesday the company seeks to help the Army “explore future capabilities, develop complex interfaces and maintain digital simulation, hardware-in-the-loop and prototyping facilities.” The Army […] More

  • Safran Subsidiary Receives Order for Tactical Long-Range IR Binoculars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Safran Subsidiary Receives Order for Tactical Long-Range IR Binoculars

    A Safran Group company has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to provide tactical infrared binocular systems to the armed forces of a NATO member country. Sagem said Thursday it will build more than 200 JIM-LR long-range multifunction  binoculars and associated remote-control terminals for the military customer. JIM-LRs are designed with an open architecture and electro-optical […] More

  • Report: Navy's 'Submarine Unified Build' Plan Sets Roles for General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy’s ‘Submarine Unified Build’ Plan Sets Roles for General Dynamics, Huntington Ingalls

    The U.S. Navy has devised a strategy for General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries to concurrently build Virginia-class and Ohio-class submarines through at least 2023, USNI News reported Monday. USNI News quoted Navy spokeswoman Capt. Thurraya Kent as saying the Submarine Unified Build Strategy calls for General Dynamics Electric Boat to lead the design and delivery of […] More

  • Scott Burns: GovDelivery's Cloud-Based Digital Comms Tech Certified by FedRAMP Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Burns: GovDelivery’s Cloud-Based Digital Comms Tech Certified by FedRAMP Board

    GovDelivery has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based digital communications technology across the government. The company said Monday its Communications Cloud Platform passed moderate security-level requirements of the program’s joint authorization board. “We’re proud to be FedRAMP compliant so that our digital communications platform can help public sector organizations connect even […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils 'Space Fence' Radar Hardware, Software Testing Hub in New Jersey - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils ‘Space Fence’ Radar Hardware, Software Testing Hub in New Jersey

    Lockheed Martin has opened a facility in Moorestown, New Jersey, to evaluate hardware and software of a ground-based space debris monitoring infrastructure for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday it built the Space Fence test center for verification of the S-band radar’s tools that are designed to help the Air Force track, detect and catalog orbital objects. Lockheed is constructing the radar system on Kwajalein […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Agrees to Extend WorldView-3 Access for Int'l Defense Customer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Agrees to Extend WorldView-3 Access for Int’l Defense Customer

    DigitalGlobe has signed a definitive agreement with an international defense and intelligence organization to provide the customer agency with direct access capacity on a commercial Earth observation satellite. The contract will extend the agency’s access to high-resolution images from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite for an additional four years, the company said Wednesday. WorldView-3 launched in August 2014 […] More

  • Iron Bow to Offer Agencies Zipit Messaging Platform Via 2 GWACs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Bow to Offer Agencies Zipit Messaging Platform Via 2 GWACs

    Iron Bow Technologies and Zipit Wireless have partnered to sell an enterprise-grade messaging tool to federal customers through two governmentwide acquisition contract vehicles. The Zipit-built Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution will work to help agencies secure data and comply with federal information processing standards, Keith Finley, director of Iron Bow’s veterans affairs and defense healthcare business, said Wednesday. Iron […] More