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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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  • Battelle, GE Develop Battery Mgmt Systems Under DOE-Backed Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Battelle, GE Develop Battery Mgmt Systems Under DOE-Backed Program

    The Energy Department has offered grants to help several technology organizations develop software products, sensors and predictive algorithms for managing the performance of lithium-ion batteries, Gigacom reported Wednesday. Katie Fehrenbacher writes Battelle designed an optical sensor that aims to detect internal battery faults, while General Electric built a miniaturized system to monitor battery pressure and […] More

  • Accenture, Samsung Team to Market Knox Mobile Security Tech; Jin Lee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Mobility, News

    Accenture, Samsung Team to Market Knox Mobile Security Tech; Jin Lee Comments

    Accenture and Samsung Electronics have partnered to help enterprise customers procure and implement Android devices that are built to support Samsung’s Knox mobile security platform, the Economic Times reported Friday. Harichandan Arakali writes the companies aim to offer pre-packaged software applications and managed service offerings through the partnership. Jin Lee, senior managing director at Accenture […] More

  • Ed Barry: McAfee-Topia Platform Designed to Secure Enterprise Mobile, Cloud Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Products & Service

    Ed Barry: McAfee-Topia Platform Designed to Secure Enterprise Mobile, Cloud Data

    McAfee and Topia Technology have partnered to develop an integrated product for organizations to store, analyze and share documents from a mobile device or a cloud computing platform. The offering unifies McAfee’s Enterprise Security Manager and Topia’s Secure Fabric Platform for Enterprise and was built through a McAfee-led security innovation alliance, Topia said Thursday. “We […] More

  • Glenn Bindley: Redlen Technologies Raises $6M to Develop Radiation Scanners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Glenn Bindley: Redlen Technologies Raises $6M to Develop Radiation Scanners

    Imaging scanners developer Redlen Technologies has raised $5.5 million in private funding from investors, including Pangaea Ventures and In-Q-Tel. The financing round is meant to help Redlen further develop cadmium zinc telluride-based radiation detectors for security and medical applications, Redlen said Thursday. Redlen is developing CZT semiconductor technology to aid computed tomography, bone density scans, […] More

  • Martin Sutherland of BAE: Cyber Espionage Malware 'Organized, Well-Funded' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Martin Sutherland of BAE: Cyber Espionage Malware ‘Organized, Well-Funded’

    BAE Systems has published a threat analysis report that describes how the cyber espionage malware known as Snake attacks computer systems and how the virus works to avoid conventional security tools. The company’s applied intelligence division also created a list of technical indicators to help enterprises bolster threat detection and mitigation techniques, BAE said Friday. […] More

  • Tom Watson: SAIC to Continue Defense Readiness Tech Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Watson: SAIC to Continue Defense Readiness Tech Support Services

    Science Applications International Corp. has been awarded a prime position on a $68 million multiple-award contract to support a Defense Department system that is built to manage tactical readiness data. SAIC will compete for task orders to perform technical and management support work on the Defense Readiness Reporting System, the company said Thursday. Defense agencies […] More

  • McAfee, NEC Form Industrial Computer Security Team; Tom Moore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    McAfee, NEC Form Industrial Computer Security Team; Tom Moore Comments

    NEC, an information technology products provider, has picked a McAfee embedded security platform to safeguard NEC’s industrial automation system products against cyber threats. McAfee’s Embedded Control technology works by running trusted applications on computing devices that are installed at a factory or a remotely located facility, McAfee said Wednesday. The McAfee software will be integrated […] More

  • Scott Chapman: Project Hosts Seeks FedRAMP Approval to Offer Microsoft Govt Cloud Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Scott Chapman: Project Hosts Seeks FedRAMP Approval to Offer Microsoft Govt Cloud Products

    Microsoft partner Project Hosts is seeking a FedRAMP authorization to offer a range of hosted Microsoft cloud computing offerings to government clients. Project Hosts seeks to deliver Microsoft’s customer relationship management, collaboration software and project portfolio management products to agencies under the FedRAMP program, Project Hosts said Wednesday. Scott Chapman, Project Hosts co-founder and CEO, said […] More

  • Lianne Stein: Boeing to Help Promote Bioenergy Crop Production in South Africa - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Lianne Stein: Boeing to Help Promote Bioenergy Crop Production in South Africa

    Boeing, South African Airways and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials will collaborate to encourage small farm owners to produce environmentally-sustainable crops for biofuel use. The alliance will offer training programs designed to help South African farmers become certified biofuel feedstock growers, Boeing said Wednesday. Boeing has launched a similar effort with RSB in Southeast Asia […] More

  • Craig Tylski: Field Aviation Tests Boeing Aircraft for Maritime Surveillance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craig Tylski: Field Aviation Tests Boeing Aircraft for Maritime Surveillance

    A Boeing aircraft designed for coastal search and rescue, anti-piracy and border security applications took its maiden test flight on Friday. Boeing partner Field Aviation launched the maritime surveillance aircraft from Pearson International Airport in Toronto under a demonstration project, Boeing said Wednesday. The multi-mission MSA was derived from the Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet […] More

  • Rob Strain: Ball Aerospace Satellite Launched to Study Global Precipitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Strain: Ball Aerospace Satellite Launched to Study Global Precipitation

    A NASA spacecraft carrying a Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built weather radiometer has been placed in orbit to start measuring rainfall and snowfall levels across the world. The Global Precipitation Imager observatory satellite is spinning at 32 revolutions per minute and works to map global precipitation every three hours, Ball Aerospace said Tuesday. “GMI is […] More

  • Ronald Spithout: Inmarsat Adds IEC Telecom As Global Satcom Offering Reseller - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ronald Spithout: Inmarsat Adds IEC Telecom As Global Satcom Offering Reseller

    IEC Telecom Group will serve as a value-added reseller of Inmarsat‘s broadband satellite communications service in the media, energy and non-governmental markets. IEC Telecom will market the Inmarsat Global Xpress offering to customers in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Inmarsat said Tuesday. Ronald Spithout, Inmarsat Enterprise president, said IEC Telecom offers a […] More