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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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  • Deltek: 38 Cloud Offerings From Industry Hold FedRAMP-Compliant Status - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: 38 Cloud Offerings From Industry Hold FedRAMP-Compliant Status

    Deltek has found that 38 cloud computing platforms from industry are certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to date. Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek, writes in a blog post published Tuesday that vendors provide their FedRAMP-compliant offerings to government clients using infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service delivery models. Eighteen cloud […] More

  • Marine Corps Tests Harris-Made UAS Data Link; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Tests Harris-Made UAS Data Link; Ed Zoiss Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps demonstrated an unmanned aircraft system equipped with a Harris Corp.-built data link technology during USMC’s Talon Reach exercise, Defense Systems reported Thursday. Kevin McCaney writes Small Secure Data Link platform is designed to leverage very high and ultra high frequency radio networks and certified to protect classified communications. Harris derived the […] More

  • Cary Ludtke: Ball Aerospace Activates Power in Joint Polar Satellite System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cary Ludtke: Ball Aerospace Activates Power in Joint Polar Satellite System

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has tested the power system of an environmental monitoring satellite that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA plan to launch in 2017. Cary Ludtke, vice president and general manager of Ball Aerospace’s operational space business said Tuesday the company powered on the Joint Polar Satellite System to gain […] More

  • Lockheed Hands Marine Corps F-35 Training, Fleet Mgmt Systems; James Sprang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands Marine Corps F-35 Training, Fleet Mgmt Systems; James Sprang Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an F-35 operations management backbone technology and a flight training system to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Autonomic Logistics Information System is designed to help military users operate and maintain the fighter aircraft, James Sprang, Lockheed’s ALIS field lead, said Tuesday. The Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) received version 2.0.1 […] More

  • Boeing-Embraer Alliance to Conduct Environmental Flight Tests; Marc Allen, Frederico Curado Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Embraer Alliance to Conduct Environmental Flight Tests; Marc Allen, Frederico Curado Comment

    Boeing has expanded a partnership with Embraer to test new aircraft technologies designed to help minimize the environmental impact of aviation. The U.S. aerospace firm said Tuesday it has tried more than 50 green platforms on 737, 787 and 757 commercial airplanes through the company’s ecoDemonstrator Program. Boeing and Embraer plan to conduct environmental flight […] More

  • Sam Gordy: Leidos to Help Maintain Army's Asset Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sam Gordy: Leidos to Help Maintain Army’s Asset Tracking System

    Leidos has been awarded a potential three-year, $10 million task order to help the U.S. Army maintain and operate a system designed to track military equipment. The company said Tuesday it will support the Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced platform in collaboration with the Army Communications Electronic Command’s Software Engineering Center. “We look forward to […] More

  • AT&T, Hitachi Consulting Form Cloud IT Service Partnership; Randall Porter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T, Hitachi Consulting Form Cloud IT Service Partnership; Randall Porter Comments

    Hitachi Consulting has partnered with AT&T to offer a cloud computing service for enterprise client applications through AT&T’s partner exchange program. AT&T will also support a Hitachi Data Systems-powered framework meant to help organizations adopt cloud technology, Hitachi Consulting said Monday. “By collaborating with Hitachi Consulting, we will help them accelerate their customers’ adoption of […] More

  • Ray Duquette: CAE to Build Poseidon Flight Simulators for US, Australian Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Duquette: CAE to Build Poseidon Flight Simulators for US, Australian Military

    CAE has received a contract from Boeing to build P-8A Poseidon flight training simulators for the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. Boeing ordered simulation hardware for an additional four P-8A operational flight trainers through the contract, CAE said Monday. “We are pleased to be supporting Boeing and the U.S. Navy in developing […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Projectile Guidance System Passes Safety, Reliability Tests; Mike Kahn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Projectile Guidance System Passes Safety, Reliability Tests; Mike Kahn Comments

    An Orbital ATK-made precision guidance technology for the U.S. Army‘s 155-millimeter artillery shells achieved reliability and safety objectives in a recent lot acceptance test. The company said Monday its Precision Guidance Kit demonstrated a less than 10-meter median accuracy during the evaluation. Mike Kahn, president of Orbital ATK’s defense systems group, said he believes that “accuracy […] More

  • TASC Awarded Navy Radar Engineering, Logistics Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TASC Awarded Navy Radar Engineering, Logistics Support Contract

    TASC, an Engility Holdings subsidiary, has received a potential $53.2 million contract to help the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center engineer radar systems. The Defense Department said Friday the contract has an initial value of $35.4 million and includes foreign military sales transactions with South Korea, Taiwan and Poland. TASC will also provide logistics, […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: Man-Portable Military Electronics Industry to See 4% CAGR Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Man-Portable Military Electronics Industry to See 4% CAGR Through 2019

    The man-portable military electronics industry is poised to enjoy a 3.8 percent compound annual growth rate from 2012 to 2019 due to an increase in defense system modernization efforts globally, according to a Transparency Market Research report. The research firm said Thursday it forecasts man-portable military electronics to reach a market value of $19.7 billion […] More

  • Capgemini to Build, Install Cloud-Based ERP System for British Airport Operator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capgemini to Build, Install Cloud-Based ERP System for British Airport Operator

    Capgemini has won a contract of an undisclosed value to help U.K.-based Manchester Airports Group to build, implement and run an enterprise resource planning system through summer 2016. MAG seeks to integrate multiple business applications and functions across its network of four airports through the project, Capgemini said Thursday. The information technology firm plans to […] More