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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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  • CAE's Gene Colabatistto: 'Portfolio Shaping' Efforts Could Drive Simulation Market Consolidation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    CAE’s Gene Colabatistto: ‘Portfolio Shaping’ Efforts Could Drive Simulation Market Consolidation

    Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE‘s defense and security group, expects the training and simulation industry to see further consolidation as he observed many companies seeking to align their product portfolios, he told Defense News in an interview published Saturday. “I think you will see some companies trying to vertically integrate in order to be a full-services […] More

  • AFCENT Taps Intelsat General for Ku-Band Satellite Services; Skot Butler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFCENT Taps Intelsat General for Ku-Band Satellite Services; Skot Butler Comments

    The U.S. Air Forces Central Command has awarded Intelsat General a contract to deliver Ku-band satellite services in support of the command’s communication activities in the Middle East. Intelsat General said Nov. 23 it will provide AFCENT up to 144 megahertz of Ku-band connectivity using the company’s satcom technology. “The deployed airmen are operating satellite ground terminals supporting C4ISR […] More

  • DigitalGlobe: Budget, Innovation Framework Key for Govt-Industry Satellite Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe: Budget, Innovation Framework Key for Govt-Industry Satellite Partnerships

    DigitalGlobe has said it believes the U.S. government should develop innovation and budget management strategies to ensure continued partnership between commercial satellite services providers and their public-sector customers. In a blog article published Tuesday, the company cited the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s EnhancedView program as one example of how industry can help address the earth imagery needs of defense and intelligence […] More

  • Deltek's Alex Rossino: Fiscal 2015 Federal Cloud Investments Exceed $2B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Fiscal 2015 Federal Cloud Investments Exceed $2B

    A Deltek report indicates federal civilian and defense agencies have collectively spent about $2.29 billion on cloud computing products and services during fiscal 2015. Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, writes in a blog article published Tuesday the company found that the U.S. Defense Department awarded $1.14 billion in contracts to cloud vendors over […] More

  • Fortinet Forecasts Internet of Things, Cloud Security Trends for 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Forecasts Internet of Things, Cloud Security Trends for 2016

    Fortinet‘s security research division has released its annual list of cyber activity predictions to help other companies and government organizations prepare strategies against emerging malicious threats. The “New Rules: The Evolving Threat Landscape in 2016” report predicts hackers will use software tools to exploit vulnerabilities or target communication protocols of Internet-connected devices, Fortinet said Tuesday. […] More

  • Sandia Labs Researchers Develop Tools for Motion, Image Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandia Labs Researchers Develop Tools for Motion, Image Analysis

    Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed two computer codes with the intent to help national security analysts examine and manage complex datasets in a short period of time. Data scientist Mark Rintoul led a team of Sandia Labs researchers that built a code for automated monitoring of motion and trajectories through the Pattern Analytics to Support High-Performance Exploitation and Reasoning […] More

  • Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin Puts 'New Shepard' Rocket Through 2nd Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin Puts ‘New Shepard’ Rocket Through 2nd Flight Test

    Blue Orgin‘s New Shepard rocket technology has completed a launch and landing process during an unmanned flight test Monday at a private range in West Texas, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in a blog entry posted after the exercise. He said New Shepard flew at a high altitude through 119 miles per hour crosswinds before the system reignited a BE-3 […] More

  • Teresa Weipert: Sutherland Global Unit Added to GSA IT Contracting Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teresa Weipert: Sutherland Global Unit Added to GSA IT Contracting Vehicle

    A Sutherland Global Services subsidiary will offer its portfolio of information technology products and services through a governmentwide acquisition vehicle managed by the U.S. General Services Administration. GSA has awarded Sutherland Government Solutions a position on the multiple-award Schedule 70, through which federal agencies can access the company’s IT offerings. Sutherland Global said Monday. “It’s particularly timely that we were […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Awarded $1B+ in SLS Engine, CST-100 Propulsion Tech Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Awarded $1B+ in SLS Engine, CST-100 Propulsion Tech Contracts

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has secured two contracts worth a combined $1.36 billion for the development of technologies to power the Space Launch System rocket and the CST-100 Starliner crew module that Boeing is building for NASA. NASA said Tuesday Aerojet Rocketdyne will build an expendable version of the company’s RS-25 engine for the SLS heavy-lift launch vehicle under a […] More

  • US Army Kicks Off Cyber Innovation Challenge for Govt-Industry Teams - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Army Kicks Off Cyber Innovation Challenge for Govt-Industry Teams

    The U.S. Army has introduced a competition that aims to encourage government, academic and commercial organizations to develop cyberspace situational awareness technology for tactical commanders. The military branch will use an “other transaction” procurement framework to choose prototype systems from participants in the Cyber Innovation Challenge, according to an article published Thursday on the Army […] More

  • DSA Lands Task Order for NAVFAC Southeast GeoReadiness Center Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSA Lands Task Order for NAVFAC Southeast GeoReadiness Center Support

    Data Systems Analysts has received a task order to support geospatial decision support and facilities management systems for the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command. DSA said will help install and maintain geographic information systems and the web-based GeoReadiness Explorer application at multiple facilities in NAVFAC’s southeastern area of responsibility. The GRX platform is designed to merge tabular and spatial data […] More

  • Vencore's FedRAMP 3PAO Status Renewed; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore’s FedRAMP 3PAO Status Renewed; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has been recertified by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation to assess cloud service providers under the government’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Friday it obtained reaccreditation as a FedRAMP third-party assessment organization after A2LA audited the firm’s compliance with the program’s technical requirements. “As the federal government and commercial customers accelerate the […] More