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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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  • IBM Unveils OpenStack Gov't Cloud Services Suite; Angel Diaz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils OpenStack Gov’t Cloud Services Suite; Angel Diaz Comments

    IBM has developed a new portfolio of OpenStack-based cloud computing offerings intended to help organizations connect on-premise and hosted information technology systems. The IBM Cloud OpenStack Services suite is available on the company’s online store and allows customers to implement applications through the Softlayer cloud infrastructure, IBM said Tuesday. “Today’s announcement further demonstrates IBM’s commitment […] More

  • SRA-SAP NS2 Team Updates Agriculture Dept's Supply Chain Mgmt System; Gil Dussek Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRA-SAP NS2 Team Updates Agriculture Dept’s Supply Chain Mgmt System; Gil Dussek Comments

    An SRA International and SAP NS2 alliance helped the U.S. Department of Agriculture build an integrated platform for managing the agency’s local and oversees food and nutrition programs. USDA’s Web Based Supply Chain Management system is based on SAP technology and works to help agency users order, purchase and track commodities for school lunch initiatives […] More

  • Verizon: Enterprise Cloud Spending Up 38% Over Previous Year - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon: Enterprise Cloud Spending Up 38% Over Previous Year

    A new Verizon study has found that 65 percent of businesses leverage cloud computing products and services to manage their information technology infrastructure. Kevin King, corporate communications director at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Tuesday the “State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014” report indicates chief information officers and chief technology officers oversee about 62 percent […] More

  • Lockheed-Pentagon F-35 Deal to Provide Fighters for US Allies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Pentagon F-35 Deal to Provide Fighters for US Allies

    An agreement between Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Defense Department for the eighth F-35 batch includes a provision to deliver some of the fighters to U.S. partner nations, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes Lockheed is scheduled to begin low-rate initial production of 43 additional F-35s for U.S. and allied forces in 2016. Israel, […] More

  • Navy Conducts 'Engage on Remote' Test of Raytheon SM-6 Interceptors; Mike Campisi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Conducts ‘Engage on Remote’ Test of Raytheon SM-6 Interceptors; Mike Campisi Comments

    A Raytheon-built missile interceptor system has used offboard targeting data to engage targets in a recent at-sea trial conducted by the U.S. Navy. Raytheon said Friday two Standard Missile-6 interceptors launched from a USS Chancellorsville ship by taking cues from another cruiser that was equipped with the Aegis missile defense system during the demonstration. According […] More

  • Report: General Atomics Seeks Partners to Offer Electromagnetic Systems in Indian Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: General Atomics Seeks Partners to Offer Electromagnetic Systems in Indian Market

    General Atomics  is looking for partners to build and market new electromagnetic weapons and associated equipment for defense customers in India, The Financial Express newspaper reported Saturday. Huma Siddiqui writes that India-based technology companies Pipavav and L&T are interested in collaborating with the U.S. contractor. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently met with Vivek Lall, […] More

  • Deltek Sees Health IT as Potential Growth Area for Federal Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Sees Health IT as Potential Growth Area for Federal Contractors

    Deltek projects U.S. government spending on electronic health record systems and other health information technology platforms to reach almost $5 billion by 2019, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Angie Petty, a Deltek senior principal research analyst, writes that federal programs and rules for health data management could accelerate use of EHRs, telemedicine and HIT analytics or cloud tools across […] More

  • Mark Jules: Hitachi Unveils Cloud-Based Data Visualization Tools for Public Safety Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Jules: Hitachi Unveils Cloud-Based Data Visualization Tools for Public Safety Agencies

    Hitachi Data Systems has introduced a set of hardware and software products for law enforcement and emergency organizations to collect, analyze and integrate disparate information during a critical situation. The Hitachi Visualization portfolio includes video capture and gateway appliances as well as map-based applications intended to help public safety personnel manage incident data in real-time, […] More

  • Globecomm Builds Ground Satcom Terminals for Int'l Oil Exploration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm Builds Ground Satcom Terminals for Int’l Oil Exploration Project

    Globecomm has built and deployed ground-based satellite communications terminals for a European company that is exploring for oil and natural gas in Iraq. The client will use Globecomm’s very small aperture terminal network to help oil exploration crews access data and voice communications in the field, the satcom technology firm said Wednesday. Globecomm says the […] More

  • Cubic to Help Queensland Transit Org Install Travel Info Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Queensland Transit Org Install Travel Info Systems

    A Cubic Transportation Systems subsidiary has won a contract to build GPS-based equipment for displaying vehicle arrival information across the TransLink public transportation network in Queensland, Australia. NextBus will provide its Real-Time Passenger Information Systems to 19 TransLink operators throughout southeast Queensland, Cubic said Wednesday. Installation of NextBus RTPIS consoles is slated to be complete […] More

  • Ian Thomas: Boeing-COMAC Partnership Seeks to Demo 'Sustainable' Aviation Biofuels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ian Thomas: Boeing-COMAC Partnership Seeks to Demo ‘Sustainable’ Aviation Biofuels

    Boeing has partnered with Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China for a project that aims to convert used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel for the aviation market. The companies established a demonstration facility that will use a Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology-built technology designed to produce up to 160 gallons of jet fuel derived from purified […] More

  • Rick Edwards: Lockheed, Roketsan Partner on F-35 Cruise Missile Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Edwards: Lockheed, Roketsan Partner on F-35 Cruise Missile Offering

    Lockheed Martin and Turkish weapons manufacturer Roketsan have signed a partnership agreement to develop, produce and market air-to-surface missiles for the F-35 fighter program. The companies seek to offer a new Standoff Cruise Missile variant that can be placed in F-35 internal carriage bays or on external carriage of other aircraft platforms, Lockheed said Tuesday. […] More