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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in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Raytheon’s Indianapolis Hub Expansion Seeks to Add 250 Jobs; Dave Wajsgras Comments

Raytheon expects to add as many as 250 positions through an expansion of the company’s systems modernization and sustainment facility in Indianapolis. The company said Monday it currently employs approximately 1,000 workers at the site to upgrade, engineer, install and maintain computer or weapon systems for military customers. “The workÂ RaytheonÂ doesÂ in IndianapolisÂ supports some of the most […] More

March 10, 2015, 10:26 am
in Cybersecurity News, News

Booz Allen-Sponsored Roundtable Highlights IoT’s Role in National Security; Greg Wenzel Comments

Greg Wenzel, a Booz Allen Hamilton executive vice president, believes the challenge of adopting Internet of Things technology starts with device or organizational integration, The Daily Transcript reported Monday. â€œWe buy these things in stovepipes and then we know we need to connect to the left and right of us to get part of the […] More

March 10, 2015, 9:18 am
in Industry News, News

Analysts: Aerospace Firms Grow Interest in NASA’s Cargo Resupply Services Program

At least five companies have submitted bids to NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station through a second round of commercial resupply services competition, the Washington Post reported Monday. Christian Davenport writes NASA’s decision to partner with industry for ISS cargo resupply missions has drawn interest from bigger contractors and encouraged investor-backed startup […] More

March 10, 2015, 4:57 am
in Industry News, News

Raytheon-Teldat Team Completes Patriot Router Design Review; Daniel Crowley, Henryk Kruszynski Comment

A Raytheon–Teldat alliance has wrapped up the design assessment on a militarized router technology for Patriot air and missile defense weapons. Raytheon said Monday that Teldat is set to enter the manufacturing and design certification phase under the companies’ Patriot router development partnership. “Teldat has demonstrated exemplary technical capabilities in support of this key initiative,” […] More

March 9, 2015, 11:14 am
in Industry News, News

Orbital ATK-Built Dawn Probe Arrives in Ceres Orbit; Mike Miller Comments

NASA and Orbital ATK confirmed that the Dawn probe has made it into orbit around the Ceres dwarf planet after a 7.5-year journey. Ceres’ gravity captured the Orbital ATK-built spacecraft Friday at 4:39 a.m. Pacific time, NASA said Friday. Dawn took off in September 2007 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and initially encountered Vesta, orbiting the […] More

March 9, 2015, 5:10 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Plan Kennedy Carrier Construction; Mike Petters Comments

Huntington Ingalls Industries has been awarded a $23 million contract to help the U.S. Navy develop a construction plan for the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Hugh Lessig writes the goal is for HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division to apply cost and efficiency measures the shipbuilder used during the […] More

March 6, 2015, 10:17 am
in Government Cloud, News

Wayne Balta: Carnegie Mellon to Use IBM Cloud Analytics for ‘Smart’ Building Project

Carnegie Mellon University is set to deploy an IBM cloud-based analytics platform under a facility management partnership aimed at helping the academic institution use data to manage its building systems. IBM said Thursday that CMU aims to use IBM technology to monitor systems utilization on the university’s 36-building Pittsburgh campus and save up to $2 […] More

March 6, 2015, 9:14 am
in Industry News, News

CGI Selected for North Wales Police Dept’s ICT Modernization Project

CGI has been awarded a five-year, $27.3 million contract to help North Wales Police design, build and operate a new information and communications technology system. The North Wales Police ICT modernization effort is part of the agency’s strategy to transform service delivery and operational activities, CGI said Tuesday. Under the contract, the company will also […] More

March 4, 2015, 5:45 am
in Industry News, News

Navy Picks IXI’s Data Converter for Shipboard EW System

IXI Technology has been awarded a contract to provide a tactical data conversion platform for electronic warfare systems onboard U.S. Navy ships. The Navy chose IXI’s Data I/O Converter to translate information stored in the legacy Naval Tactical Data System into a format intended to support the military branch’s AN/SLQ-32(V) shipboard EW system, IXI said […] More

March 4, 2015, 5:01 am
in Government Cloud, News

VMware Platform Added to UK Govt Cloud Marketplace; Andy Tait Comments

VMware will offer a hybrid cloud platform through a U.K. government procurement vehicle meant to help the country’s public sector organizations to acquire cloud computing services. The company holds a position on the G-Cloud 6 framework contract to supply its VCloud Air products to British customer agencies, VMware said Tuesday. VCloud Air is designed to […] More

March 4, 2015, 2:32 am
in Industry News, News

Research and Markets: Storage-as-a-Service Market to Grow 38% Annually Through 2019

A Research and Markets report predicts the global market for managed data storage, backup and archiving services will grow at a 37.96 percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2019. The research firm said Friday the storage-as-a-service model is designed to help organizations recover enterprise data and ensure business continuity in the event of […] More

March 2, 2015, 11:55 am
in Industry News, News

Engility’s Tony Smeraglinolo: Customer-Focused Approach Key in Pursuit of Federal Programs

Engility Holdings aims to step up pursuit of federal government contracts with its acquisition of TASC, the Washington Post reported Sunday. â€œWe now have the gravitas to go after any bid,â€ Tony Smeraglinolo, Engility CEO and an inductee into Executive Mosaicâ€™s Wash100 list for 2015, told The Post. â€œTo win work in this environment, you […] More

March 2, 2015, 7:57 am