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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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  • Boeing, HAL, Mahindra team up on bid for India's fighter aircraft contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, HAL, Mahindra team up on bid for India’s fighter aircraft contract

    Boeing has partnered with India-based Mahindra Defence Systems and Hindustan Aeronautics to offer the country’s air force the F/A-18 Super Hornet platform, Flightglobal reported Friday. The Chicago-based aerospace and defense company intends to propose a fighter aircraft production facility as part of its support to “Make in India” goals. The Indian air force sent a request for information notice to […] More

  • Safariland's Med-Eng business to supply Air Force with bomb protection suit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Safariland’s Med-Eng business to supply Air Force with bomb protection suit

    The Safariland Group‘s Med-Eng business has secured a potential five-year, $15 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide equipment designed to help protect the lives of explosive ordnance disposal personnel. USAF chose the Med-Eng EOD 10 offering after the brand met a National Institute of Justice standard for public safety bomb gear, Safariland said Thursday. The service branch […] More

  • General Atomics to feature Orbital Test Bed model at 34th Space Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to feature Orbital Test Bed model at 34th Space Symposium

    General Atomics has announced its electromagnetic systems business will showcase a new spacecraft model designed to host technology payloads for demonstration. The company said Wednesday GA-EMS will exhibit the Orbital Test Bed along with other satellite and space system offerings at the 34th Space Symposium scheduled to take place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 15 to 19. “Our […] More

  • Hughes' Tony Bardo: Multiple connectivity options essential for public sector comms network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes’ Tony Bardo: Multiple connectivity options essential for public sector comms network

    Tony Bardo, assistant vice president of the government solutions business at Hughes Network Systems, has said he believes that offering multiple connectivity options to customer agencies can help them manage communications, Via Satellite reported Wednesday. He told Via Satellite in an interview that a provider should offer public sector clients different methods to communicate in the event […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to demo mixed reality C2 app for space battle management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to demo mixed reality C2 app for space battle management

    Charles River Analytics will demonstrate a hybrid reality command-and-control technology intended for space battle management during a four-day industry event scheduled to kick off Monday in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The company said Wednesday its SOLAR application will function as a front-end operator-facing tool based on BAE Systems’ SBMC2 testbed. SOLAR is built through the Defense Advanced […] More

  • George Krivo: DynCorp sees key market opportunities after reorganization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    George Krivo: DynCorp sees key market opportunities after reorganization

    George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, has said the company looks to reinvest money and build out product offerings after it restructured further into logistics and aviation segments, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. He told WBJ in an interview the McLean, Virginia-based contractor implemented its reorganization effort in a push to remove “unnecessary” management […] More

  • The Data Incubator trains military personnel to use AWS cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Data Incubator trains military personnel to use AWS cloud

    The Data Incubator, a member of Amazon Web Services‘ partner network, is training U.S. warfighters on how to manage data at all classification levels with cloud computing technology. AWS said Tuesday the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command tapped The Data Incubator six months ago to develop and create a long-term delivery course in the […] More

  • AECOM to implement SitScape's digital enterprise enablement tech under partnership agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM to implement SitScape’s digital enterprise enablement tech under partnership agreement

    SitScape will provide its Digital Enterprise Enablement Platform to AECOM‘s management services group as part of a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies. AECOM said Tuesday it aims to help global customers manage mission-critical operations through the use of DEEP software equipped with data analytics, machine learning, visualization, process automation and collaboration features. The web-based platform helps enterprise […] More

  • IBM's IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization

    IBM has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact level 5 data of Defense Department and federal agency customers through a multitenant cloud computing platform. DISA said Tuesday it granted a 12-month PA to the company’s SmartCloud for Government infrastructure-as-a-service platform. SCG encompasses compute, memory, network, operating system and storage provisioning services intended to help […] More

  • Trevet-Bay West JV wins $75M Navy environmental program support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trevet-Bay West JV wins $75M Navy environmental program support IDIQ

    A Trevet–Bay West joint venture has won a potential five-year, $75 million contract to provide support services necessary to implement the U.S. Navy‘s environmental restoration program and media requirements for other environmental programs. The JV will conduct resource conservation and underground storage tank studies, risk assessments and multiple projects to demonstrate technology platforms for monitoring and managing […] More

  • NGA plans historical imagery scanning tech acquisition via OTA process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA plans historical imagery scanning tech acquisition via OTA process

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has begun its search for a commercial provider to develop a scanner prototype that NGA can implement to digitize historical images. NGA said Tuesday it will use “other transaction authority” to acquire technology designed to catalog imagery from aerial and satellite film missions conducted over the past 83 years. “We’ve never had […] More

  • Raytheon integrates air-to-ground missile tech into Navy F-35C - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon integrates air-to-ground missile tech into Navy F-35C

    Mark Borup, senior manager of business development for the air warfare systems product line at Raytheon‘s missile systems business, has said the company helped the U.S. Navy integrate a variant of the Joint Standoff Weapon system into the F-35C aircraft, Military.com reported Tuesday. Borup told Military.com in an interview the JSOW-C installation was part of the fighter developmental test phase […] More