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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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  • GSA's Mary Davie: Regional Telecom Contract Extension to Coincide with Networx - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA’s Mary Davie: Regional Telecom Contract Extension to Coincide with Networx

    The General Services Administration intends to extend Regional Local Service Agreements with multiple government telecommunication service providers to coincide with a planned 2020 extension of Networx contracts. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of GSA’s office of integrated technology services, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the agency also plans to add current regional telecommunication offerings […] More

  • Navy Capt. Scott Pratt: USS Freedom to Undergo Dry Dock Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Capt. Scott Pratt: USS Freedom to Undergo Dry Dock Maintenance

    The U.S. Navy has maneuvered its USS Freedom littoral combat ship into a dry dock to undergo system repairs and modifications, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Kris Osborn writes Capt. Scott Pratt, Navy program manager for LCS fleet introduction and sustainment, told Military.com that maintenance work on the Lockheed Martin-built USS Freedom is due to last […] More

  • Websense's Carl Leonard: Attack Pattern Analysis Can Help Financial Services Firms Protect Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Websense’s Carl Leonard: Attack Pattern Analysis Can Help Financial Services Firms Protect Data

    A Raytheon–Vista Equity Partners joint venture has published a report that says the financial services industry encounters cyber attacks about 300 percent more often than other business sectors. Raytheon|Websense said Tuesday the “2015 Financial Services Drill-Down Report” showed the U.S. accounts for the majority of compromised hosts lurking in the sector’s enterprise information networks. “For […] More

  • Roger Lawler: Black Box to Help DOE Manage Federal Comms Infrastructure in Tennessee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Lawler: Black Box to Help DOE Manage Federal Comms Infrastructure in Tennessee

    The U.S. Energy Department has awarded Black Box Network Services a potential five-year, $33.4 million contract to help update, run and maintain a federal integrated communications network located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Black Box said Wednesday it will also provide telecommunication services to DOE and other government offices throughout the Oak Ridge Reservation site. “We […] More

  • Microsoft, Unisys, AppZero Form Govt Cloud Migration Support Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Unisys, AppZero Form Govt Cloud Migration Support Alliance

    AppZero has partnered with Microsoft and Unisys to help enterprise customers migrate their Windows Server 2003 applications into Microsoft-built cloud computing technologies. The goal is to encourage Win2K3 government and commercial users to implement either a Windows Server 2012 R2 or an Azure platform as Microsoft plans end of support for the legacy operating system […] More

  • Smartronix-Led Team to Support Marine Corps' Encryption Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smartronix-Led Team to Support Marine Corps’ Encryption Mgmt System

    Smartronix will lead a team comprising of Booz Allen Hamilton, SRA International and Conscious Security to manage a public key infrastructure for the U.S. Marine Corps. The consortium will support applications, digital certificates, fielded systems and registration authority processes in the military branch’s PKI program, Smartronix said Tuesday. Hollywood, Maryland-based Smartronix maintains a portfolio of […] More

  • Chris Miner: Huntington Ingalls to Help Update USS George HW Bush Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Miner: Huntington Ingalls to Help Update USS George HW Bush Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a $23.8 million contract to help modernize the U.S. Navy‘s USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier. Newport News Shipbuilding will help the military service procure, build and test systems for the modernization of the nuclear-powered vessel, HII said Monday. “We first delivered the ship in […] More

  • Breaking Defense: Army Joint Tactical Vehicle Award Due in Late Summer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Breaking Defense: Army Joint Tactical Vehicle Award Due in Late Summer

    Lockheed Martin, AM General and Oshkosh have used what they call non-traditional approaches to build the protective features of their respective teams’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicle offerings for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes Army chief acquisitions executive Heidi Shyu expects to name the winning contracting team for the $30 […] More

  • Mike Sinnett: Boeing Demos 'Green' Diesel-Powered 757 Plane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Sinnett: Boeing Demos ‘Green’ Diesel-Powered 757 Plane

    Boeing has flown its ecoDemonstrator 757 airplane using a green diesel product designed to produce 80 percent less carbon emissions than traditional petroleum aviation fuel. The company said Friday it collaborated with NASA and TUI Group to conduct a test flight of the aircraft Wednesday from Seattle to the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Navy Maintain Aegis Missile Engineering, Testing Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Navy Maintain Aegis Missile Engineering, Testing Facilities

    Lockheed Martin has received a one-year, $61.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to help manage engineering and testing centers for Aegis ballistic missile defense systems. The Navy exercised an option for Lockheed to continue to provide operational, maintenance and technical support services at the military service’s Combat Systems Engineering Development Site, Naval Systems […] More

  • KPMG's Doug Gates: A&D Firms on Lookout for New Growth Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KPMG’s Doug Gates: A&D Firms on Lookout for New Growth Opportunities

    A KPMG International-commissioned study indicates that aerospace and defense companies aim to drive growth by implementing research and development, supply chain management, targeted divestment and portfolio adjustment initiatives. Fifty-three percent of 68 senior executive respondents to the KPMG A&D Outlook survey said they would prioritize sales growth strategies for the next one to two years, […] More

  • RSA Study Indicates 45% of Firms Lacking in Cybersecurity Risk Mgmt Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA Study Indicates 45% of Firms Lacking in Cybersecurity Risk Mgmt Strategies

    Forty-five percent of more than 400 security professional surveyed by RSA, the security division of EMC, across 61 countries have acknowledged their organizations’ inability to manage cyber risks. RSA said June 9 its global Cybersecurity Poverty Index survey offers insight into how companies rate their cybersecurity measures against a framework developed by the U.S. National […] More