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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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  • Tanaz Shahrzad: PSS Unit to Support FBI's Financial Mgmt Tech Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Tanaz Shahrzad: PSS Unit to Support FBI’s Financial Mgmt Tech Procurement

    A Preferred Systems Solutions subsidiary has been awarded a five-year blanket purchase agreement to help the FBI procure financial management tools and services. PSS said Wednesday its Government Contract Solutions arm and partner Erimax will provide acquisition, program management and costing and pricing services to FBI’s finance division procurement department. Tanaz Shahrzad, vice president of GCS’ […] More

  • Sandler Research: Green Initiatives to Help Drive US Data Center Construction Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandler Research: Green Initiatives to Help Drive US Data Center Construction Market

    The U.S. data center construction industry is poised to enjoy a 4.18 percent compound annual growth rate from 2014 to 2019, according to a Sandler Research report. Sandler Research said Monday that U.S. organizations are increasingly seeking data repository facilities that use systems designed to cut power consumption and reduce environmental impact. The research firm […] More

  • Steve Totman: Independent Regulator Picks Cloudera Tech to Analyze Securities Market Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Totman: Independent Regulator Picks Cloudera Tech to Analyze Securities Market Data

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has tapped into Cloudera big data technology as part of an initiative to monitor securities trading activities in the United States. Cloudera said Tuesday that FINRA uses a regulatory infrastructure to merge data feeds from more than 4,000 securities companies and stock exchanges each day to uncover market manipulation incidents. The […] More

  • Raytheon Picks Connectrac Wireways to Protect Office Cables - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks Connectrac Wireways to Protect Office Cables

    Raytheon has selected a Connectrac platform to cover and secure electrical audio-visual wiring at the defense and aerospace firm’s conference rooms. JE Snyder Electric recommended Connectrac’s In-Carpet Wireway system to Raytheon and installed the cable enclosure in multiple Raytheon facilities, Connectrac said Wednesday. According to Connectrac, Raytheon has used JE Snyder’s electrical installation services since the […] More

  • Stephen Gold: IBM Aims to Help Commercialize Watson-Powered Healthcare App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stephen Gold: IBM Aims to Help Commercialize Watson-Powered Healthcare App

    IBM has invested in Modernizing Medicine to help that company further develop and launch a Watson-powered, cloud-based mobile clinical decision support application into the marketplace. Modernizing Medicine aims for its schEMA app to analyze large volumes of medical literature to offer clinicians point-of-care data, IBM said Thursday. “IBM’s investment will help speed the introduction of […] More

  • CA Technologies, SAIC Form Public Sector IT Services Partnership; Alyssa Fitzpatrick, Terry Hicks Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies, SAIC Form Public Sector IT Services Partnership; Alyssa Fitzpatrick, Terry Hicks Comment

    CA Technologies and Science Applications International Corp. have partnered to offer information technology services to help public-sector clients address IT management issues. The agreement allows SAIC to use CA’s Unified Infrastructure Management platform to deliver IT managed services in the government market, the companies said Thursday. CA designed UIM for service providers and enterprise customers […] More

  • Sysorex Joins Octo Consulting's Army IT Support Contract Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sysorex Joins Octo Consulting’s Army IT Support Contract Team

    Sysorex has joined an Octo Consulting-led team that won a position under a potential $249 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of enterprise information technology services. Octo Consulting and Sysorex will collaborate to support the military service’s program executive office for enterprise information systems through the EITS program, Sysorex said Wednesday. Nadir […] More

  • Ike Song: Northrop to Integrate Wind River Software into UH-60V Avionics Mission System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ike Song: Northrop to Integrate Wind River Software into UH-60V Avionics Mission System

    Northrop Grumman has chosen Wind River to supply an embedded software technology for integration into a Northrop-designed avionics mission equipment package for the U.S. Army‘s UH-60V helicopters. Wind River will deliver its VxWorks 653 operating system platform to Northrop as part of the Black Hawk cockpit digitization program, Wind River said Wednesday. Dinyar Dastoor, vice […] More

  • Carpathia Releases IT Mgmt Platform for AWS Cloud Users; Peter Weber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carpathia Releases IT Mgmt Platform for AWS Cloud Users; Peter Weber Comments

    Carpathia has introduced a technology offering designed to centrally monitor information technology workloads that are hosted by Carpathia and run on Amazon Web Services cloud environment. The Cloud Operations Platform for AWS will work to provide enterprise clients a consolidated view of their Carpathia- and AWS-supported IT applications through a single portal, Carpathia said Wednesday. […] More

  • BAE, Boeing, Raytheon Join MIT Cyber R&D Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Boeing, Raytheon Join MIT Cyber R&D Alliance

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with BAE Systems, Boeing, Raytheon, BP and BBVA to establish a collaborative research program to tackle cybersecurity issues on a larger scale, the Boston Business Journal reported Monday. Sara Castellanos writes Howard Shrobe, principal research scientist at MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory, said the Cybersecurity@CSAIL initiative […] More

  • Agilex's Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov't IT Systems Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agilex’s Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov’t IT Systems Development

    Roger Baker, chief strategy officer at Agilex, wrote in a blog post published Monday that he learned during his service in federal government that an incremental and agile development methodology could improve the success rate for information technology programs. Baker said the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act offers an opportunity for federal chief information officers […] More