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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in Government Technology

Inmarsat-Addvalue Partnership Intros Satellite Link Service; Todd McDonnell Quoted

Inmarsat and Singapore-based communications firm Addvalue Innovation have introduced a service to facilitate data transfer between low-Earth orbit small satellites and ground stations. The partnership commissioned the Inter-satellite Data Relay System service Nov. 12 on Sequoia, a Capella Space synthetic aperture radar microsatellite, and launched the IDRS offering after completion of a live data connectivity demonstration, Inmarsat said Monday.

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November 25, 2020, 1:03 am
in Government Technology, News

TrellisWare Demos Radio Network Interoperability for Military Customers

TrellisWare Technologies has demonstrated a system for networking multiple radios over the same radio frequency channel during a recent event for the company's key U.S. military clients.

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November 24, 2020, 9:40 am
in News

Data and Analytic Solutions to Help Modernize IRS Procurement Operations; Shanna Webbers Quoted

Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting firm Data and Analytic Solutions has been selected to help the Internal Revenue Service explore approaches to accelerate the agency's contracting process. IRS said Monday it will work with DAS through a research partnership aimed at bringing together procurement professionals, university professors and students who have been educated in machine learning.

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November 24, 2020, 6:38 am
in Cybersecurity News, Press Releases

Expanse’s Matt Kraning Talks Importance of Asset Mgmt to Gov’t IT Security

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 24, 2020 â€” Matt Kraning, co-founder and chief technology officer of Expanse, said the ongoing pandemic highlights urgency of a rigorous asset inventory and management approach for government information technology organizations to understand attack surfaces, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 17.

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November 24, 2020, 1:37 am
in News

Forcepoint’s Michael Crouse: Agencies Need Enterprise-Level Visibility Into User Access to Systems, Data

Michael Crouse, a user protection specialist at Forcepoint, has said agencies should incorporate user and data protection approaches into their overall security strategy. In a GCN guest piece published Monday, Crose offers three questions agency leaders can ask to pinpoint privileged access management challenges and suggests potential measures to address such issues.

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November 24, 2020, 1:15 am
in News

BWXT, DOE Collaborate on Additive Manufacturing for Reactor Components; Kenneth Camplin Quoted

BWX Technologies and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teamed up to develop 3D printing technology for the production of metallic compounds needed to build a nuclear reactor system.

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November 23, 2020, 10:07 am
in Government Technology, News

Raytheon Technologies Aiming to Help Military Pilots Respond to Threats via ‘Converged EW’ Approach

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space unit has embarked on a project to develop a threat detection approach for military aircraft operators that will fuse electronic warfare, cyber and signals intelligence tools into a single open-architecture system, dubbed Converged EW.

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November 23, 2020, 2:56 am
in Contract Awards, News

ViaSat Awarded $51M Air Force Space System Prototyping Contract

ViaSat has secured a potential $50.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory build and demonstrate prototype space systems.

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November 23, 2020, 2:09 am
in News

SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Election Security Awareness Drove Federal-State Collaboration

Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the heightened awareness about election security fueled collaborative efforts between federal and state agencies to protect voting systems, SearchSecurity reported Thursday.

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November 23, 2020, 1:29 am
in Government Technology, News

IBM Proposes Three-Pronged Gov’t IT Transformation Approach

Government agencies should follow the example of large commercial enterprises in modernizing information technology infrastructure with hybrid cloud computing architectures, writes IBM Chief Information Officer Fletcher Previn. In a blog post published Wednesday, he outlines a three-step framework the company has devised with the intent to help public sector leaders ensure agency systems are â€œTomorrow Ready.â€

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November 20, 2020, 8:50 am
in Press Releases

Avaya’s Jerry Dotson Talks Unified Comms for DoD Telework

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 20, 2020 â€” Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya's (NYSE: AVYA) public sector business, suggested five ways for the Department of Defense to help its remote workers manage communications and collaboration, GovCon Wire reported Monday.

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November 20, 2020, 6:50 am
in Executive Moves, News

Timothy Herrick Becomes GM Defense’s Interim President

Timothy Herrick, vice president of global product programs at General Motors, has been appointed to serve as president of GM Defense on an interim basis. He will lead the military vehicle manufacturing business until the company finds a permanent replacement for David Albritton, who exited GM Defense to join Amazon Web Services as VP of global communications for public sector and vertical industries.

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November 20, 2020, 1:47 am