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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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  • DHS Taps Small Businesses for Sensor, Emergency Response, Security Tech Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps Small Businesses for Sensor, Emergency Response, Security Tech Ideas

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to collaborate with small businesses to develop tools for management of 13 technical areas identified by DHS’ science and technology directorate and domestic nuclear detection office. Both DHS organizations will gather proposals from industry beginning Wednesday through a joint solicitation for the effort under an upcoming Small Business Innovation Research Program, […] More

  • Louis Berger to Help Assess Power Transmission Line Rebuild Project in New York - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger to Help Assess Power Transmission Line Rebuild Project in New York

    Louis Berger has been awarded a $2.7 million contract to provide environmental research, assessment, certification and licensing services for the first phase of an 85-mile power distribution system modernization effort in New York. The New York Power Authority seeks to rebuild electric transmission lines that run between St. Lawrence and Lewis counties through the Strengthening Moses-Adirondack with Resilient Technology Path initiative, Louis […] More

  • General Dynamics NASSCO Unveils SEA-Vista Product Tanker 'Independence' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics NASSCO Unveils SEA-Vista Product Tanker ‘Independence’

    General Dynamics‘ NASSCO subsidiary on Saturday unveiled the first ECO tanker for client SEA-Vista’s crude oil and  petroleum product shipping operations. RaceTrac Petroleum CEO Allison Moran broke a champagne bottle against product tanker Independence and former US Joiner CEO Jayne Rathburn pulled the ship’s trigger during a christening and launch event held Saturday at NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, […] More

  • Lockheed Taps SeaRobotics to Help Build Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 'Marlin' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps SeaRobotics to Help Build Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ‘Marlin’

    Lockheed Martin has chosen SeaRobotics as an original equipment manufacturer to help produce Marlin Mk3 autonomous underwater vehicles for clients in the offshore services industry. Marlin is designed to help offshore oil and gas and pipeline surveyors perform deepwater exploration and inspection activities, Lockheed said Monday. Rich Holmberg, vice president of Lockheed’s mission and unmanned systems business, said the company embedded […] More

  • Reports: Northrop Designs Flying-Wing UAS Under DARPA 'Tern' Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Northrop Designs Flying-Wing UAS Under DARPA ‘Tern’ Program

    Northrop Grumman has unveiled a design of its proposed unmanned aircraft system for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node initiative, Breaking Defense reported Sunday. Colin Clark writes Northrop’s Tern UAS offering is designed with a flying-wing structure and counter-rotating rotor blades. The company intends for its platform to takeoff and land on the U.S. Navy‘s DDG 51 […] More

  • Gene Colabatistto: CAE Eyes New Drone Pilot Training Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gene Colabatistto: CAE Eyes New Drone Pilot Training Opportunities

    Gene Colabatistto, CAE‘s group president for defense and security, has said the company is eyeing new unmanned aircraft programs as it aims for a bigger share of the pilot training services market, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Sandra Erwin writes CAE has helped the U.S. Air Force train around 1,500 aircrews a year to operate General Atomics-built Predator […] More

  • IBM to Help South Africa, India Manage Urban Air Quality with IoT, Analytics Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Help South Africa, India Manage Urban Air Quality with IoT, Analytics Tech

    IBM has partnered with the governments of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Delhi, India, to help both cities implement air quality management plans through the use of Internet of Things, cognitive computing analytics and machine learning technology. The company said Thursday it will collaborate with Johannesburg’s local government researchers to analyze environmental data, identify pollution sources […] More

  • MDA Puts Aegis Ashore, Standard Missile-3 Through Intercept Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Puts Aegis Ashore, Standard Missile-3 Through Intercept Test

    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has evaluated a ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system in conjunction with a Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 Block IB at an outdoor testing complex in Kauai, Hawaii. MDA said Thursday the Aegis Ashore system installed at the Pacific Missile Range Facility fired an SM-3 missile at a medium-range BM target that came […] More

  • Northrop Hands Lockheed Fuselage for Japan's 1st F-35 Jet; Brian Chappel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Lockheed Fuselage for Japan’s 1st F-35 Jet; Brian Chappel Comments

    Northrop Grumman has supplied Lockheed Martin a center fuselage to be integrated into an F-35 variant for the Japanese military. “This on-time delivery marks another important step in the F-35 team’s drive to support and help fulfill our allies’ 21st century national security requirements,” Brian Chappel, a vice president and F-35 program manager at Northrop’s aerospace systems […] More

  • US Navy, MDA, Japan Test Raytheon SM-3 Variant; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy, MDA, Japan Test Raytheon SM-3 Variant; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Navy and the Japanese defense department have demonstrated a variant of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-3 weapon during a live-fire flight test in Point Mogu, California. Raytheon built a 21-inch-diameter system against medium and intermediate ballistic missile threats for U.S. and Japan’s SM-3 Cooperative Development Project, MDA said Tuesday. The company said its SM-3 Block IIA launched from an […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Dataguise Info Security Platform to GSA Schedule; Michael Shrader Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Dataguise Info Security Platform to GSA Schedule; Michael Shrader Comments

    Dataguise has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to offer U.S. public-sector clients access to data protection technology through a General Services Administration  acquisition vehicle. DgSecure is now available to government organizations via Carahsoft’s GSA schedule contract, Dataguise said Tuesday. “Given the exponential growth of data and the increasingly aggressive cyber attacks on government agencies, cybersecurity initiatives need to start […] More

  • IARPA Taps IBM for Logical Quantum Bit Research Grant; Arvind Krishna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Taps IBM for Logical Quantum Bit Research Grant; Arvind Krishna Comments

    IBM has received a multi-year grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to further study superconducting qubits the company believes could eventually facilitate development of a universal quantum computer. The company said Tuesday it aims to help IARPA design a logical qubit from multiple imperfect physical qubits and tackle computational limitations in existing quantum systems through the […] More