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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HawkEye 360 Raises $55M to Expand RF Sensing Satellite Constellation; John Serafini Quoted

HawkEye 360 has generated $55 million from a Series C fundraising round, led by venture capital firm Night Dragon, to seed radio frequency sensing satellite development and deployment. The new capital, which brings HawkEye 360's total funds raised to more than $155 million, will be used to build nine additional satellites in three clusters for RF data collection and analytics work, the company said Monday.

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April 13, 2021, 3:02 am
in Industry News, Press Releases, Space News

SAIC’s Nazzic Keene Sees Growth Potential in IT, Space Areas

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 9, 2021 — Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and four-time Wash100 Award recipient, said in a recent earnings call that she believes the information technology modernization and space business areas will help drive the company's long-term growth, GovCon Wire reported March 29.

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April 9, 2021, 10:04 am
in Industry News, Press Releases

MetTel, Raytheon Form FAA Network Contract Pursuit Team; Robert Dapkiewicz Quoted

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 9, 2021 — MetTel has forged an alliance with two Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business units have forged a teaming arrangement to compete for the Federal Aviation Administration's enterprise network services contract, GovCon Wire reported March 29.

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April 9, 2021, 9:23 am
in Contract Awards, News

Air Force Taps Lockheed to Develop Long-Range Radar Interface

Lockheed Martin has received a follow-on contract to develop a data transmission interface as part of the U.S. Air Force's rapid prototyping competition to modernize the legacy TPS-75 military radar system. The integration contract under the Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar development program has options for the company to manufacture up to 35 systems, the military service said Wednesday.

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April 8, 2021, 8:12 am
in Contract Awards, News

BAE to Help DARPA Create Wideband RF Interference Protection Mechanisms

BAE Systems has received a pair of contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design methods for protecting wideband receiver systems from radio frequency signal interference when used in electromagnetic spectrum operations. The company said Wednesday it will help DARPA explore self-interference or external signal cancelation approaches as part of the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection effort.

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April 8, 2021, 6:58 am
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Army Taps SAIC-Led Team for $3.6B Embedded System Test Support Contract; Gabe Camarillo Quoted

An industry team led by Science Applications International Corp. has won a potential $3.6 billion contract to help the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Aviation and Missile Center engineer testing platforms for embedded devices and other systems. SAIC said Wednesday it will provide life cycle engineering support for hardware-in-the-loop simulation and modeling processes at the software, simulation, systems engineering and integration directorate under DEVCOM AvMC.

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April 7, 2021, 10:20 am
in Contract Awards, News

Army Selects BAE, Oshkosh-ST Engineering Team to Build Arctic Vehicle Prototypes

The U.S. Army has awarded separate contracts to BAE Systems and an Oshkosh Defense–ST Engineering partnership to develop prototypes of the branch's Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle. The Army set a June 14 deadline for the companies to deliver their CATV prototypes.

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April 6, 2021, 9:16 am
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Roy Azevedo on Raytheon’s DC Operations, Space Market Opportunities Post-Blue Canyon Acquisition

Roy Azevedo, president of the intelligence and space unit at Raytheon Technologies and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the company employs professionals across Washington, D.C. who support operations and programs via telework or on-site work. "We continue to be focused in the D.C. market, not just for employees that we are able to offer teleworking flexibility, but also we're still hiring on every element of engineering," Azevedo told the Washington Business Journal in an interview.

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April 5, 2021, 7:09 am
in Biometrics News, Government Technology, News

Army Plans Biometric Camera Tech Procurement via SBIR Program

The U.S. Army plans to begin accepting industry proposals on facial recognition technology with potential military and civilian security applications on April 14, according to a Small Business Research Innovation opportunity notice posted on SAM.gov.

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April 5, 2021, 1:00 am
in Government Technology, News

Abbyy Tech Helps FDA Analyze Drug Safety Reports

The Food and Drug Administration uses Abbyy's artificial intelligence-based information technology platform to simplify the process of analyzing data from pre-marketing clinical trial safety reports on experimental drugs, GCN reported Wednesday. â€œWe found that we can just drop 100,000 files in, have them process over the course of a week and almost all of them were recognized,â€ Justin Scott, senior business informatics officer at the FDA, was quoted as saying.

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April 1, 2021, 1:00 am
in Government Technology, News

Sikorsky, DARPA Showcase Autonomy Tech in Black Hawk Helicopter Test Flight

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky subsidiary has demonstrated supervised autonomous operations of a Black Hawk military helicopter as part of a testing program with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed to reduce pilot workload while ensuring flight safety.

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March 30, 2021, 2:14 am
in Industry News, Press Releases

KBR to Provide US Military Base Support in Middle East; Byron Bright Quoted

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 29, 2021 â€” KBR (NYSE: KBR) has booked a $67.4 million contract to help the U.S. Navy manage four facilities located in the United Arab Emirates and a $35 million task order to supply power resources to the U.S. Air Force's 378th Air Expeditionary Wing operating in Saudi Arabia, GovCon Wire reported March 19.

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March 29, 2021, 12:12 am