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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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  • Joe Jordan: FedBid Marketplace Now Includes Contract Mgmt Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Jordan: FedBid Marketplace Now Includes Contract Mgmt Tools

    FedBid has updated its business-to-government online marketplace to include new tools designed to help agencies create and manage indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity or blanket purchase agreement contracts. “BPAs and IDIQs are often used by government buyers to help leverage savings and streamline the process for purchasing frequently-used goods and services that are needed across their organizations,” Joe Jordan, […] More

  • SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Certified by Air Force; Elon Musk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Certified by Air Force; Elon Musk Comments

    The U.S. Air Force has approved SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket, clearing the way for the company to pursue military launch service contracts. The military branch said Tuesday it spent more than $60 million and took almost two years to complete the certification process. “This is an important step toward bringing competition to national security space […] More

  • NASA Selects 9 Tech Proposals for Jupiter Moon Research Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Selects 9 Tech Proposals for Jupiter Moon Research Mission

    NASA has picked nine out of 33 scientific instrument proposals for the agency’s planned space mission to investigate whether the structure of a Jupiter moon could support life. The agency said Monday it aims to build and put a solar-powered spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter for three years to study the planet’s Europa moon. Participants […] More

  • Cisco to Hold Tech Demos at Ohio Health Innovation Center; Barbara Casey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco to Hold Tech Demos at Ohio Health Innovation Center; Barbara Casey Comments

    Cisco will set up a 900-square-feet showroom at the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland, Ohio, to demonstrate a range of medical information technology platforms. The company said Tuesday its Healthcare Customer eXperience Center would showcase interactive displays, collaboration tools, data analytics and telemedicine systems. Barbara Casey, senior practice director for healthcare transformation at Cisco, […] More

  • Northrop CEO Wes Bush: Defense Innovation Entails Pentagon, Industry Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop CEO Wes Bush: Defense Innovation Entails Pentagon, Industry Partnerships

    Wes Bush, CEO of Northrop Grumman, has said he believes that public-private alliances can help drive national security innovation in the current fiscal environment, Defense News reported Tuesday. “To me, research and development is a partnership issue,” Bush told an audience at a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted panel discussion Tuesday in Washington. He […] More

  • Microsoft's Susie Adams: Data Governance Critical for Federal BYOD Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Susie Adams: Data Governance Critical for Federal BYOD Programs

    Susie Adams, chief technology officer of Microsoft‘s federal government business, has recommended that agencies implement user-focused security policies to manage personal devices in the workplace, GCN reported Friday. “It’s about governance first,” Adams told GCN in an interview. “Maintaining control over employee access to data regardless of the device becomes probably the most important thing […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Saab Form 3D Geospatial Modeling JV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Saab Form 3D Geospatial Modeling JV

    DigitalGlobe and Saab have created a joint venture to offer three-dimensional Earth imagery and elevation data products to commercial and government organizations. The companies said Tuesday that Vricon aims to integrate a Saab-made 3D imaging technology and DigitalGlobe’s database of satellite images to develop new geospatial products. The business will initially focus on producing topographic […] More

  • Cisco Seeks to Help Accelerate Internet of Things Adoption with New Computing Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Seeks to Help Accelerate Internet of Things Adoption with New Computing Platform

    Cisco has introduced a second version of its IOx fog computing platform in an effort to help enterprises implement Internet of Things, 365 Cloud Technology reported Saturday. IOx is designed to allow Linux and other third-party operating applications to run on Cisco-built network architectures, according to 365 Cloud Technology. The article says Cisco has also […] More

  • Lockheed, Wyle to Participate in NASA-NSBRI Space Medicine Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Wyle to Participate in NASA-NSBRI Space Medicine Research Program

    Lockheed Martin and Wyle Laboratories have submitted research proposals for a new program that seeks to examine potential health issues that astronauts may encounter during deep-space missions. The companies’ submissions are among 24 research projects that will receive $12.9 million in total funds from NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, NSBRI said Thursday. […] More

  • Exelis, UrsaNav, DHS, Coast Guard to Test Potential GPS Backup; Ed Sayadian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis, UrsaNav, DHS, Coast Guard to Test Potential GPS Backup; Ed Sayadian Comments

    Exelis has partnered with UrsaNav, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security to demonstrate a potential alternative to USCG’s decommissioned Loran-C radio navigation system. Exelis, UrsaNav, USCG and DHS signed a cooperative agreement to test the eLoran low-frequency technology as a backup for GPS infrastructure being used by the public and private […] More

  • Harris Tests MUOS Waveform on Tactical Radios; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Tests MUOS Waveform on Tactical Radios; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. has demonstrated the company’s Falcon III tactical radios with a Mobile User Objective System waveform technology. The demonstration aimed to validate the ability of a multiband radio platform to deliver narrowband communications over the U.S. Defense Department‘s MUOS satellite network, Harris said Wednesday. “More than 30,000 AN/PRC-117G radios are already deployed and capable […] More

  • Michael Maiorana: Verizon Includes Cloud Platform on Networx, WITS Contract Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Maiorana: Verizon Includes Cloud Platform on Networx, WITS Contract Vehicles

    A Verizon cloud computing suite has been added to two contract vehicles that U.S. government agencies use to procure telecommunication products and services. Verizon said Wednesday its Enterprise Cloud: Federal Edition offering can now be purchased by agencies through the General Services Administration‘s Networx Universal and Enterprise program and the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 3 […] More