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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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  • SPA Gets ISO Quality Mgmt Certification; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPA Gets ISO Quality Mgmt Certification; William Vantine Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has received certification from the International Organization for Standardization following an independent audit of the company’s quality management system. SPA said Wednesday the ISO 9001:2015 certificate validates its efforts to manage customer satisfaction, workplace efficiency and quality control processes. William Vantine, SPA president and CEO, said the company aims to further improve its internal […] More

  • CNSI to Build CMS Medicaid Advantage Encounter Data Processing System; Adnan Ahmed Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CNSI to Build CMS Medicaid Advantage Encounter Data Processing System; Adnan Ahmed Comments

    CNSI has received a potential $35 million contract to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services develop, engineer and maintain a technology platform to process medical claims data on Medicare Advantage or Part C beneficiaries. The company said Tuesday it aims to build a next-generation Encounter Data Processing System for the agency to collect and […] More

  • Education Dept Releases IT Investment Mgmt Support RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Education Dept Releases IT Investment Mgmt Support RFP

    The Education Department seeks contractor support to implement information technology governance and investment management programs that will cover the areas of capital planning, investment control, budget formulation, IT portfolio management and enterprise architecture. ED said in a request for proposal notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps the department plans to award a potential five-year, firm-fixed-price contract to […] More

  • Vencore Labs, Irby Sign Grid Monitoring Tech Distribution Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Labs, Irby Sign Grid Monitoring Tech Distribution Pact

    Vencore‘s research arm has selected electrical supplies and services company Irby as the exclusive distributor of a power grid infrastructure monitoring technology to customers across the U.S. utility sector. Irby agreed to market and sell Vencore Labs-developed SecureSmart platform along with planning, security and operations consulting services under the distribution agreement, Vencore said Wednesday. SecureSmart […] More

  • DARPA Selects Orbital ATK for Hybrid Engine Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Selects Orbital ATK for Hybrid Engine Research Project

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $21.4 million contract to study the potential integration of turbine and hypersonic engine technologies into a new aircraft propulsion system. DARPA obligated $1 million in fiscal 2017 research and development funds for the Advanced Full Range Engine project at the time of contract award, the […] More

  • CSRA Wins Dept of Navy Cloud Services BPA Under Schedule 70 Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Wins Dept of Navy Cloud Services BPA Under Schedule 70 Vehicle

    CSRA has won a potential three-year, $34.7 million blanket purchase agreement for cloud computing services to Department of the Navy research and development enterprise. The Defense Department said Friday CSRA will help the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific to establish a cloud brokerage for 16 Navy warfare centers under the DON Cloud Services […] More

  • Bell Completes V-280 Tiltrotor Prototype for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Completes V-280 Tiltrotor Prototype for Army

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has completed the prototype build of a tiltrotor aircraft platform designed for the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator program under the U.S. Army‘s Future Vertical Lift initiative. Bell said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate its V-280 Valor offering this fall through a maiden flight test. Lockheed Martin built V-280’s cockpit, avionics, distributed aperture system […] More

  • ManTech to Support Navy Aircraft Safety Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Support Navy Aircraft Safety Testing

    ManTech International has secured a potential $39.6 million contract to help the Naval Air Systems Command integrate, diagnose and test safety hazards associated with aircraft systems. The company said Thursday it will provide reliability, maintainability and system safety services for US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft and subsystems under the contract. Work covers the full life cycle of naval […] More

  • Texas DOT Taps Serco's North American Arm for Traffic Mgmt Services; Dave Dacquino Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Texas DOT Taps Serco’s North American Arm for Traffic Mgmt Services; Dave Dacquino Comments

    Serco Inc., the British contractor’s North American subsidiary, has received a potential $7 million contract to support traffic management operations at the Austin-based Combined Transportation Emergency & Communications Center. The company will manage CTECC for the Texas Department of Transportation, Austin District, under the contract that has one base year along with three one-year options, Serco said […] More

  • Markon Lands $60M IDIQ for Construction Mgmt Support to Washington Headquarters Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Markon Lands $60M IDIQ for Construction Mgmt Support to Washington Headquarters Services

    Markon Solutions has received a potential $60 million contract to provide a range of construction management technical support services to the Washington Headquarters Services. The Defense Department said Monday the company will help WHS plan, design and manage construction projects under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. WHS obligated $200,000 at the time of award and will provide […] More

  • Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics Supports White House Action to Help Protect IP of US Firms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phebe Novakovic: General Dynamics Supports White House Action to Help Protect IP of US Firms

    General Dynamics Chairman and CEO Phebe Novakovic has said the company backs President Donald Trump’s latest action that seeks to protect U.S. industrial base from theft of intellectual property. The White House signed a memo last week directing the U.S. Trade Representative to examine if the federal government should investigate Chinese trade practices that may threaten IP […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Help Sustain Avionics System of Air Force KC-10 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Help Sustain Avionics System of Air Force KC-10 Fleet

    Rockwell Collins has received a potential $10.7 million contract to provide sustaining engineering services for the avionics system of the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-10 tanker aircraft. The company will perform work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is scheduled to finish by Feb. 17, 2027, the Defense Department said Friday. The […] More