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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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  • Energy Dept Awards PARC New Metal Sorting Tech Development Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Energy Dept Awards PARC New Metal Sorting Tech Development Funds

    Xerox subsidiary PARC has secured additional funds from the U.S. Energy Department to further develop a technology for processing and recycling scrap aluminum materials. PARC is developing an aluminum alloy detection system through the Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for Light-metal Systems Program, run by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Xerox said Monday. “Our technology could change […] More

  • Lockheed, Danish Firm to Collaborate on Ballistic Missile Radar Development; Brad Hicks Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Lockheed, Danish Firm to Collaborate on Ballistic Missile Radar Development; Brad Hicks Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Weibel Scientific to design, build and test a doppler radar technology for helping military customers to defeat ballistic missile threats. The Gap-Filling Tracking Radar will be built to have precision tracking and discrimination features and to leverage NATO‘s European ballistic missile defense architecture, Lockheed said Monday. The companies formed their […] More

  • Booz Allen, Raytheon|Websense Form Insider Threat Risk Mgmt Partnership; Brad Medairy, Ed Hammersla Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Booz Allen, Raytheon|Websense Form Insider Threat Risk Mgmt Partnership; Brad Medairy, Ed Hammersla Comment

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Raytheon|Websense have partnered to offer technology and service offerings intended to help organizations avoid, detect and respond to insider threats. The companies agreed to integrate Booz Allen’s Insider4Sight suite of consulting and integration services with Raytheon’s insider threat management platform SureView, Booz Allen said Friday. “Organizations are paying more and more […] More

  • USAF Taps Wright State Applied Research Corp. to Help Develop Human-Machine Intell Analysis Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    USAF Taps Wright State Applied Research Corp. to Help Develop Human-Machine Intell Analysis Tech

    Wright State Applied Research Corp. has won a $42.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force explore tools to facilitate human-machine collaboration on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data analysis. The Defense Department said Friday that WSARC will perform ISR knowledge elicitation, concept design and development and performance assessment services for the Air Force Research […] More

  • Deloitte's Mike Marshall: Federal Agencies Need 'Proactive' Cyber Strategy to Secure Financial Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Deloitte’s Mike Marshall: Federal Agencies Need ‘Proactive’ Cyber Strategy to Secure Financial Data

    Federal chief financial officers should ensure that their agencies prioritize cyber preparedness and have enough funds to acquire technologies against sophisticated threat actors, according to Mike Marshall, a director at Deloitte‘s advisory services practice. Marshall said in a Deloitte Insights piece published Friday that he observed financial data have increasingly become a target for malicious […] More

  • DHS Taps Northrop, UTC, HRL Labs to Help Develop Mobile User Authentication Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps Northrop, UTC, HRL Labs to Help Develop Mobile User Authentication Tools

    Northrop Grumman, United Technologies Corp.‘s research center and HRL Laboratories have received contracts to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security develop user authentication platforms for mobile devices, Fedscoop reported Thursday. Greg Otto writes DHS awarded $2.2 million to HRL, $1.7 million to Northrop and $790,000 to United Technologies Research Center. Northrop will develop a machine learning-based […] More

  • Air Force Releases Insider Threat Program RFP for Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Air Force Releases Insider Threat Program RFP for Small Businesses

    The U.S. Air Force is seeking bids on a small business set-aside contract covering services for the management of a program to prevent, detect and respond to insider threats. The contract will have a firm-fixed-price structure and calls for a vendor to help the military service develop an insider threat implementation plan as well as create […] More

  • NRO Calls for Analytics, Sensing Tech R&D Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    NRO Calls for Analytics, Sensing Tech R&D Proposals

    The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has announced plans to competitively fund industry projects to explore sensing, aperture and sensemaking analytics technologies. NRO said in a broad agency announcement posted Aug. 6 on FedBizOpps that it wants research and development proposals from companies as well as nonprofit and academic organizations. The agency expects to issue multiple […] More

  • Anne Altman: FedRAMP Board Certifies IBM Mobile Device Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Altman: FedRAMP Board Certifies IBM Mobile Device Mgmt Platform

    IBM has been authorized to offer government agencies a cloud-based mobile device management platform through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. This is the first instance of an enterprise mobility management offering to receive a provisional authority-to-operate designation from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board, the company said Wednesday. IBM’s MaaS360 enterprise mobility system will be available for […] More

  • Jim Propps: DLT to Offer GitHub App Development Tool in Gov't Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    Jim Propps: DLT to Offer GitHub App Development Tool in Gov’t Market

    DLT Solutions and GitHub have partnered to market a programming code management tool for open source and private software development projects in the government sector. DLT said Thursday the GitHub Enterprise platform is an on-premise variant of GitHub.com and works to help developers search, review and share codes. Jim Propps, director of DLT’s enterprise platforms […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Use Atlas V Rocket for Upcoming Space Cargo Resupply Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Orbital ATK to Use Atlas V Rocket for Upcoming Space Cargo Resupply Missions

    Orbital ATK has bought two United Launch Alliance-built rockets to deliver supplies to the International Space Station for NASA in December and in early 2016, Space News reported Tuesday. Dan Leone writes the Atlas V launch system would help Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft deliver approximately 7,716 pounds of pressurized cargo to ISS. ULA, a Boeing–Lockheed Martin […] More