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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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  • CenturyLink, SAP Partner on HANA Enterprise Cloud Offering; Gary Gauba Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink, SAP Partner on HANA Enterprise Cloud Offering; Gary Gauba Comments

    CenturyLink has agreed to offer supplier services for an SAP private cloud hosting platform under a global premium supplier partnership agreement between the two companies. Gary Gauba, president of CenturyLink unit Cognilytics, said Wednesday the company seeks to help customers migrate their business applications to cloud infrastructure through the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service. CenturyLink noted it aims to […] More

  • Rupert Pearce: Inmarsat Adds Regional Office to Address APAC Mobile Broadband Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rupert Pearce: Inmarsat Adds Regional Office to Address APAC Mobile Broadband Demand

    Inmarsat has opened a new regional office in Singapore as the company aims to help address a growing demand for mobile satellite communication services in the Asia Pacific market. The 19,500-square-foot office is located at Toa Payoh and includes a solutions laboratory, demonstration and training rooms, knowledge and support centers and a production facility, Inmarsat said Wednesday. “With […] More

  • NOAA to Deploy Raytheon-Built UAS to Track Atlantic Hurricanes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA to Deploy Raytheon-Built UAS to Track Atlantic Hurricanes

    Raytheon has built an unmanned air system for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in an effort to help agency and company researchers study hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA and Raytheon launched an upgraded version of the company’s Coyote UAS from a P-3 Orion aircraft over Avon Park, Florida, during a recent calibration flight test, the […] More

  • David Keasey: NETCOM Approves Catbird's Security Software for Army Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Keasey: NETCOM Approves Catbird’s Security Software for Army Networks

    Catbird has received authorization from the U.S. Army‘s Network Enterprise Technology Command to deploy a company-built security platform on Army networks. NETCOM granted Catbird a certificate of networthiness for its Secure software after the technology passed Defense Department‘s network security standards, the company said Wednesday. Secure works to help users create network segments within a virtual data center and facilitate continuous […] More

  • Chemring Unit Gets Detection Tech Orders From US Army, Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring Unit Gets Detection Tech Orders From US Army, Saudi Arabia

    A Chemring Group subsidiary has received contracts worth almost $4 million to provide bomb detection systems to the U.S. Army and subsurface object detectors to Saudi Arabia. NIITEK will build technology for the Army to detect underground roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices under the Next-Generation Handheld Multi-Sensor Explosive contract, Chemring said Tuesday. The Army Research Laboratory awarded […] More

  • Sevatec Lands EAGLE II Contract to Help Manage Coast Guard's Intell Data Online - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Lands EAGLE II Contract to Help Manage Coast Guard’s Intell Data Online

    Sevatec has been awarded a five-year prime contract to help the U.S. Coast Guard‘s Intelligence Coordination Center maintain its classified and unclassified web content. Sevatec said Tuesday it will collaborate with BAE Systems to customize web-based technology for the companies to support intelligence data and products on ICC websites. Sonny Kakar, CEO of Sevatec, noted the company also […] More

  • Gary Gauba: CenturyLink, WISeKey Forge Internet of Things Security Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gary Gauba: CenturyLink, WISeKey Forge Internet of Things Security Collaboration

    CenturyLink and WISeKey have agreed to explore strategies for the companies to jointly develop and market cybersecurity services in the Internet of Things market. Both companies will look to offer a managed digital identity services platform in a bid to help enterprise clients secure connected devices and maintain data privacy, WISeKey said Wednesday. “As the number of connected […] More

  • Juniper to Support USAF's Data Network Modernization Effort; Bob Fortna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Juniper to Support USAF’s Data Network Modernization Effort; Bob Fortna Comments

    Juniper Networks will collaborate with two information technology companies to integrate a new networking switch into the U.S. Air Force‘s data transport system. Affigent and ThunderCat Technology chose Juniper as an original equipment manufacturer to help build an open networking architecture under the Air Force’s Base Information Transport Infrastructure modernization project, Juniper said Monday. Bob Fortna, vice […] More

  • NCR to Help DoD Adopt Multichannel Commissary Retail Platform; Stan Ratcliffe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCR to Help DoD Adopt Multichannel Commissary Retail Platform; Stan Ratcliffe Comments

    NCR has been selected to help build a commerce platform for the Defense Commissary Agency to drive customer experience across the agency’s global network of military commissaries. DeCA plans to begin deployment of the company’s Retail ONE omnichannel retailing hub at the agency later this year, NCR said Monday. Retail One will work to integrate the agency’s store and sales channel management and back office […] More

  • CAE Enters Into Neurosurgery Simulation Tech Licensing Deal; Robert Amyot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Enters Into Neurosurgery Simulation Tech Licensing Deal; Robert Amyot Comments

    CAE  and a Canadian research agency have signed a licensing agreement for the Montreal-based company to market and distribute simulation technology designed for endoscopic and cranial brain surgery training programs. The National Research Council of Canada granted CAE exclusive global marketing rights to NeuroVR simulator and will collaborate with CAE’s healthcare business to create new training modules for neurosurgeons, […] More

  • IARPA Posts RFI on Neural Computing Principles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Posts RFI on Neural Computing Principles

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is soliciting ideas to apply neural information processing methods for the next-generation design of computers. IARPA specifically encouraged computer scientists and neuroscientists in a FedBizOpps notice published Jan. 6 to submit input on the potential role of spike-based neuronal models and sparse codes in computing technology. The agency also requested information about the human brain’s […] More

  • Draper Lab Helps Update Army's Guided Airdrop Cargo Delivery System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab Helps Update Army’s Guided Airdrop Cargo Delivery System

    The U.S. Army and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have collaborated to update and test an autonomous military platform designed to deliver supplies and equipment to U.S. troops who operate in remote or dangerous areas. Draper said Jan. 12 it helped the Army’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center demonstrate laboratory-built navigation software for the Joint Precision Airdrop System. The lab designed the software to employ […] More