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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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  • SolarWinds Eyes Federal Business Expansion with New Herndon Office; David Kimball Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SolarWinds Eyes Federal Business Expansion with New Herndon Office; David Kimball Comments

    SolarWinds has opened a new Herndon, Virginia-based office with the intent to expand the software company’s federal business operations in the Washington metropolitan area. The office is meant to accommodate SolarWinds employees who provide information technology management products and support services to federal civilian, defense and intelligence customers, SolarWinds said Tuesday. David Kimball, SolarWinds federal […] More

  • Capstone to Extend Navy-Marines Intranet Program Work; Rich White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone to Extend Navy-Marines Intranet Program Work; Rich White Comments

    Capstone has won a task order to help the U.S. Navy transition the military service’s information technology services to the Next Generation Enterprise Network. The company said Thursday it will also continue to work with the Commander of the Navy Installations Command to support the Navy Marine Corps Intranet. “This is our third consecutive award […] More

  • Maximus' Tom Romeo: Gov't Clients Turn to Outcome-Based Contracts for Services Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maximus’ Tom Romeo: Gov’t Clients Turn to Outcome-Based Contracts for Services Procurement

    Tom Romeo, president of Maximus‘ federal services business, has observed many government organizations turning to an outcomes-based contracting model to acquire services for large-scale projects, CivSource reported Tuesday. Bailey McCann writes Maximus aims to adapt strategies as public sector organizations look to change the way they manage technical and business processes. “Focusing on tools and […] More

  • PV Puvvada: Federal Sector a 'Growth Engine' for Unisys - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PV Puvvada: Federal Sector a ‘Growth Engine’ for Unisys

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal systems business, sees government customers as an engine that will drive the company’s growth strategies, he told the Washington Business Journal in an interview published Thursday. Puvvada told reporter Jill Aitoro the company can turn a commercial information technology product into a pubic sector IT offering and vice versa. “Our […] More

  • General Dynamics Adds MUOS Wireless Connectivity Testing Service; Chris Marzilli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Adds MUOS Wireless Connectivity Testing Service; Chris Marzilli Comments

    General Dynamics has introduced an “over-the-air” satellite connectivity testing service for companies that aim to link their radio or antenna products to the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System. The service is offered at General Dynamics’ MUOS radio testing laboratory in Scottsdale and allows radio vendors to evaluate data and voice transmission with the tactical […] More

  • Larry Price: Lockheed Uses Flight Test Data to Improve Orion Spacecraft's Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Larry Price: Lockheed Uses Flight Test Data to Improve Orion Spacecraft’s Design

    Larry Price, a deputy program manager at Lockheed Martin, said data from the December test flight of the Orion spacecraft helped validate the company’s spacecraft design and performance models, Florida Today reported Tuesday. James Dean writes Price offered details of the Exploration Flight Test-1 during a presentation at a National Space Club Florida Committee luncheon […] More

  • BANC3 to Support Army's Tech R&D, Engineering Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BANC3 to Support Army’s Tech R&D, Engineering Programs

    BANC3 has secured $35 million in contract funds to help the U.S. Army research, develop and engineer mission-based systems for military personnel. The technology firm said Monday it will work with the Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command to build imaging sensors, microdisplays, advanced optical materials, lasers, digital image processors and related software programs. The Army […] More

  • BAE to Help Army Manage Battlespace Data Systems; Mark Keeler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help Army Manage Battlespace Data Systems; Mark Keeler Comments

    BAE Systems has been awarded a potential two-year, $23 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide infrastructure support at a battlespace command and control facility. The company will also update mobile training platforms and manage networks for the U.S. military’s Non-Organic Radar Access initiative, BAE said Tuesday. Mark Keeler, vice president and general manager […] More

  • Jack Dangermond: FedRAMP Green Lights Esri's GIS Cloud Service for Federal Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jack Dangermond: FedRAMP Green Lights Esri’s GIS Cloud Service for Federal Clients

    Esri has been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer cloud services for government users of a geographic information system technology. Jack Dangermond, president of Esri, announced at the company’s annual geospatial conference that its managed cloud service offering is designated FedRAMP compliant at the moderate security level, Esri said Monday. […] More

  • Cisco CEO John Chambers: Internet of Things Could Drive IT Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco CEO John Chambers: Internet of Things Could Drive IT Transformation

    John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, forecasts that Internet of Things and digital technologies will transform organizations and be at the forefront of market transitions, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. “I think in this next decade, information technology will be in vogue again,” he told WSJ reporter Scott Thurm. […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Extends Navy Aerial Refueling Tech Development Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Extends Navy Aerial Refueling Tech Development Support

    Engility Holdings has won a potential five-year, $27.5 million recompete task order to help the U.S. Navy develop automated technology for aerial refueling of manned and unmanned aircraft. The company said Monday it will continue to provide technical services to the aircraft department at the Naval Air Warfare Center in Maryland. “Engility personnel have supported […] More