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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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  • HP Helped Calif. Corrections Agency Build an Automated Prison Data System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Helped Calif. Corrections Agency Build an Automated Prison Data System

    The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation worked with Hewlett Packard to implement a technology infrastructure designed to process, manage and share data on prison inmates, GCN reported Thursday. Karen Schwartz writes HP acts as the system integrator under the $400 million project and has helped agency personnel build the state’s integrated Electronic Offender Management […] More

  • YouTube Adds Communication Tool for Gov't Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    YouTube Adds Communication Tool for Gov’t Agencies

    YouTube has introduced a channel for U.S. government organizations and officials to upload videos and engage citizens about issues of national interest The YouTube for Government site is designed to share explainer videos as well as live streams of congressional hearings and State of the Union addresses with the public, according to a Google Politics […] More

  • Siemens to Integrate Grid Mgmt Software into Dell Desktops; Joyce Mullen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens to Integrate Grid Mgmt Software into Dell Desktops; Joyce Mullen Comments

    Dell and Siemens have partnered to run the electronics company’s software for power grid data management on Dell-made desktop computers. Siemens’ smart grid business seeks to integrate its Spectrum Power 4 application running on top of the Solaris operating system into OptiPlex XE2 desktops by collaborating with Dell’s OEM Solutions division, Dell said Wednesday. “We […] More

  • Report: Air Force Could Award Long-Range Radar Contract Next Week - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Could Award Long-Range Radar Contract Next Week

    The Air Force could unveil the winner of a contract to build the branch’s long-range radar system as soon as next week, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has approved the service’s Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar procurement plan. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are all vying for the contract. The […] More

  • Peggy McCullough: Bechtel, DOE Work to Ensure Radioactive Waste Plant Safety - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peggy McCullough: Bechtel, DOE Work to Ensure Radioactive Waste Plant Safety

    Bechtel is set to resume engineering work at the U.S. Energy Department‘s nuclear waste vitrification facility in Washington following completion of safety and quality assessments on the site. DOE told Bechtel to continue building the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s facility that would vitrify high-level radioactive waste to reduce its potential impact on the […] More

  • Yogesh Khanna: CSC-MobileIron Team Aims to Help Federal Clients Bolster Mobile Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Yogesh Khanna: CSC-MobileIron Team Aims to Help Federal Clients Bolster Mobile Security

    Computer Sciences Corp. and MobileIron will collaborate to develop cloud-based applications designed to help U.S. military and civil government organizations secure mobile data. The companies seek to integrate MobileIron’s enterprise cloud device management platform into CSC’s mobile security offerings for the federal sector, MobileIron said Wednesday. MobileIron says its technology is built to manage iOS […] More

  • BlackBerry's Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

    The need for stronger cyber protection has reached a “critical juncture” and lawmakers should consider introducing measures to close the information technology skills shortage, BlackBerry‘s Jeffrey Ait writes in an opinion piece for Nextgov. Ait, BlackBerry vice president and head of its U.S. public sector business, says two recent studies indicated the current government IT […] More

  • Exelis Receives Pentagon Certification for F-16 Electronic Warfare Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives Pentagon Certification for F-16 Electronic Warfare Tech

    The U.S. Defense Department has approved Exelis-made electronic warfare pods for installation aboard Block 15 F-16A/B fighters operated by foreign military sale customers. Exelis said Thursday its Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System has been validated through the SEEK EAGLE aircraft-stores certification program. The AIDEWS approval could be immediately extended to domestic and international F-16 […] More

  • David Melcher: Aerostructure Business Key to Exelis' Peformance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Melcher: Aerostructure Business Key to Exelis’ Peformance

    David Melcher, CEO of Exelis, has said the company applied previous spinoff experience in order to carry out the separation of its mission systems business in just nine months, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Melcher told WBJ reporter Jill Aitoro in a recent interview he expects the shareholder base of government services spinoff company […] More

  • Chris Chadwick: Boeing to Shift Defense Support Operations to Missouri, Other US Sites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Chadwick: Boeing to Shift Defense Support Operations to Missouri, Other US Sites

    Boeing plans to transfer most of its defense support functions to St. Louis, Oklahoma City and other sites from Washington. The company estimates the relocation will take three years to complete and affect approximately 2,000 defense workers at the company’s offices in the Puget Sound area, Boeing said Monday. “The decision to consolidate these activities […] More