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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.
IBM and Computer Programs and Systems will collaborate on a healthcare project that seeks to leverage predictive analytics technology to help rural and community hospitals cut readmission rates. CPSI and its TruBridge subsidiary plan to use IBM’s SPSS Modeler data mining and analytics platform to identify patients at increased risk of readmission in hospitals participating […] More
HumanTouch will provide the General Services Administration with a software-as-a-service platform designed to integrate and manage enterprise information technology functions. GSA picked the company’s EnLight SaaS application to help agency personnel monitor IT programs, investments and portfolios across the organization, HumanTouch said Tuesday. “EnLight is an example of the type of solution organizations can configure […] More
Lockheed Martin has entered the final production stage of a new Mars lander that is scheduled for launch by NASA in March 2016. The company said Monday its technicians will integrate avionics, power, telecommunication, navigation, control, guidance and thermal systems in the InSight spacecraft during the six-month assembly phase. “Physically, InSight looks very much like […] More
Raytheon has won a contract to manufacture hyperspectral imaging technology for two Earth-observation spacecraft under development by Boeing. Boeing is building the satellites for HySpecIQ and chose Raytheon to provide sensing instruments intended to capture data across the electromagnetic spectrum, Raytheon said Monday. According to Raytheon, the satellite sensors will work to provide analysts with […] More
Vista Outdoor, a sporting goods company that will spinoff from ATK, is considering several possible sites in Utah to be its global headquarters. ATK said Thursday Vista Outdoor aims to employ as many as 5,800 workers globally and to have a manufacturing presence in approximately 10 U.S. states. Mark DeYoung, ATK president and CEO, said the […] More
Jerry Hogge, deputy group president of Leidos’ health solutions group, said interoperability and connectivity are among key features the U.S. Defense Department want from the agency’s future electronic health records system, EHRintelligence reported Thursday. Jennifer Bresnick interviewed Hogge along with Jim Traficant, managing director of Accenture Federal Services, and Travis Dalton, general manager of Cerner‘s […] More
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, said the USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier project presents a challenge because the ship will incorporate newer technologies, the Daily Press reported Thursday. “We’re now at the point where we have to tie all this new technology together and test it,” Petters told an audience at […] More
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 200th MH-60R maritime helicopter to the U.S. Navy with the goal of supporting the branch’s surface and submarine warfare operations. Sikorsky manufactured the Romeo multirole helicopter and Lockheed built the vehicle’s sensor technology and other mission systems, Lockheed said Thursday. The Navy’s MH-60R fleet has recorded more than 250,000 flight […] More
A joint venture of Battelle and Stony Brook University has received a $3.2 billion contract to continue to run the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York until Jan. 4, 2020. The Energy Department awarded the five-year management and operations contract to Brookhaven Science Associates through competition, DOE said Wednesday. Brookhaven Science Associates has supported the […] More
Cubic Corp. has received a multiyear $4.25 million task order to help the U.S. Army develop instructional strategies and game-based learning tools for military personnel. The company will work with the Army’s Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia to integrate military doctrine into interactive training materials, Cubic said Thursday. “Numerous studies have shown […] More
Cisco has added an Internet of Things focus to its channel partner program in an effort to help Cisco partners identify opportunities in the IoT technology market. Steve Benvenuto, Cisco senior director of business development, writes Thursday the company launched three specialization programs designed to offer collaborators IoT-specific tools and training. The company will offer […] More
IBM has debuted an entrepreneurial program with the goal of helping technology startups and developers access cloud development tools and bring new offerings to the cloud market more quickly. The Global Entrepreneur Program for Cloud Startups initiative gives entrepreneurs a chance to leverage a suite of IBM platforms designed to help users build cloud-based applications […] More
