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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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  • SolarWinds' Joel Dolisy: Agencies Should Adopt Policies, Tools to Avoid Shadow IT-Related Breach - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SolarWinds’ Joel Dolisy: Agencies Should Adopt Policies, Tools to Avoid Shadow IT-Related Breach

    Federal information technology leaders can avoid the potential security risks of shadow IT activities within their agencies by implementing multiple strategies, Joel Dolisy, chief information officer and chief technology officer of SolarWinds, wrote in an opinion piece published Friday on GCN. Dolisy recommended that agency IT managers create a watch list of suspicious or unauthorized […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Lands Missile Defense System Engineering, Integration Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Lands Missile Defense System Engineering, Integration Order

    A Parsons-led team has been awarded a task order of an undisclosed value to help the U.S. Missile Defense Agency engineer and integrate a weapon system against ballistic missile threats. Parsons said Thursday it will also provide architecture and technical baseline development, testing and verification services for the agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System. “Our team […] More

  • Federal Times: DHS Plans New 5-Year Gov't Cybersecurity Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal Times: DHS Plans New 5-Year Gov’t Cybersecurity Support Contract

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security could award a classified five-year contract for the development, operations and maintenance of federal cybersecurity tools by the end of August or early next month, Federal Times reported Thursday. Aaron Boyd writes DHS will seek contractors to help manage DHS’ National Cybersecurity Protection System as well as update the […] More

  • BAE to Continue Army Rocket Propellant Production; Reed McPeak Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Continue Army Rocket Propellant Production; Reed McPeak Comments

    BAE Systems has been awarded a $50 million contract to manufacture additional propellant grains for the U.S. Army‘s Hydra 70 rockets. The company said Thursday it has built MK 90 military-grade propellants at the Radford Amy Munition Plant in Virginia since October 2012. Production work is slated to occur in the next two years. Reed […] More

  • LMI's Brennan Hogan Calls for 'Revolutionary Change' in Defense Tech Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI’s Brennan Hogan Calls for ‘Revolutionary Change’ in Defense Tech Programs

    Brennan Hogan, program manager at LMI Research Institute, has said at a panel discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution that an incremental approach is one method for the U.S. Defense Department to innovate. LMI said Wednesday that during the forum, Hogan also provided her insight into how the defense sector should leverage three-dimensional printing technology. […] More

  • Roger Krone: Leidos to Lead DoD Health Record System Modernization Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone: Leidos to Lead DoD Health Record System Modernization Team

    Leidos will lead a health information technology consortium to build, integrate and deploy a commercial electronic medical records platform for the U.S. Defense Department under a potential $4.3 billion contract. “We are honored to have been selected as the best-value solution for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract,” Roger Krone, Leidos chairman and CEO, […] More

  • Tom Keane: Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud Adds 4 Federal Certifications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Keane: Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud Adds 4 Federal Certifications

    Microsoft has received additional federal certifications for its Azure Government cloud computing platform after evaluations of the product’s data security features for U.S. public sector organizations. Tom Keane, partner director for Microsoft Azure program management, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the platform obtained a moderate provisional authority-to-operate status under the Federal Risk and Authorization […] More

  • Lockheed Embarks on New Surveillance Aircraft R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Embarks on New Surveillance Aircraft R&D Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works unit is developing a high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft that would look as an upgraded version of the company’s U-2 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaisance platform, Flightglobal reported Monday. James Drew writes Skunk Works envisions the future RQ-X/UQ-2 having an unmanned and a manned operational mode, an F118 engine and multiple sensors. “Think of […] More

  • Northrop, IRT Partner to Develop Public Safety Incident Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, IRT Partner to Develop Public Safety Incident Mgmt Tool

    Northrop Grumman has collaborated with Incident Response Technologies to build a new tool for public safety organizations to manage critical situations. IRT said Tuesday that Northrop’s Tactical Incident Management System is based upon IRT’s cloud-based Rhodium incident management software. The platform works to help law enforcement personnel plan, manage and track events as well as […] More

  • IRS Wants Info on Contact Center SaaS Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    IRS Wants Info on Contact Center SaaS Offerings

    The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is requesting information about potential providers of a software-as-a-service platform designed for contact center operations. IRS said Aug. 10 in a FedBizOpps notice that it seeks a vendor who can deliver SaaS that complies with the agency’s information technology security and data privacy policies. The agency also wants to know […] More

  • Jim Benson: CorasCloud's AppDev Tool Available on AWS GovCloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Benson: CorasCloud’s AppDev Tool Available on AWS GovCloud

    CorasCloud has made its application development tool available on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region to help U.S. government clients design, build and implement cloud computing apps. The AppDev tool is also designed to help organizations transfer apps to an infrastructure-as-a-service provider without having to reconfigure them, CorasCloud said Tuesday. “Our goal is to provide every option […] More

  • FireEye, Europol Sign Cyber Threat Detection Pact; Richard Turner, Wil van Gemert Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, Europol Sign Cyber Threat Detection Pact; Richard Turner, Wil van Gemert Comment

    FireEye has agreed to exchange cybersecurity expertise with Europol in an effort to help the law enforcement agency detect and monitor threats in cyberspace. The company will offer the agency’s European Cybercrime Centre access to threat intelligence data under a memorandum of understanding, Richard Turner, FireEye vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Asia, […] More