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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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  • Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push

    Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

  • MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship

    The Missile Defense Agency has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Pacific Command to demonstrate the target detection features of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis weapon system installed on the USS John Paul Jones guided-missile destroyer. MDA said Tuesday the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 Weapon System worked to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target that was launched from the Pacific […] More

  • Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany's P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany’s P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin has received a $54.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update mission computers, armament and ordnance systems, displays and controls and acoustic equipment on eight P-3C Orion maritime surveillance planes for Germany. The P-3C Mission System Refresh Program will cover long-lead items procurement, non-recurring engineering, design and build, integration, planning and software development services, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed’s […] More

  • General Dynamics to Support Air Force's GPS Signal Generation Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Support Air Force’s GPS Signal Generation Tech Project

    General Dynamics will collaborate with the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop GPS satellite digital waveform generation technology under a potential $10.1 million contract the company has won from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will also perform analyses as well as help the AFRL researchers to refine algorithms and assess implementation methods […] More

  • PAR Technology to Provide Geospatial, Collaboration Tools for Colorado Wildland Firefighting Drill - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAR Technology to Provide Geospatial, Collaboration Tools for Colorado Wildland Firefighting Drill

    A PAR Technology subsidiary has been chosen to supply geospatial situational awareness and collaboration tools to firefighters who will participate in a two-day wildfire emergency management exercise to be held in Boulder, Colorado. The company said Tuesday Full Scale Boulder Wildland Urban Interface Exercise  participants on Friday and Saturday will use tools PAR Government Systems designed to help incident managers track crew locations, the geography and […] More

  • Boeing, Northrop Win Contracts to Help USAF Develop Satellite Digital Waveform Generator Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Northrop Win Contracts to Help USAF Develop Satellite Digital Waveform Generator Tech

    Boeing and Northrop Grumman have won separate cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts from the U.S. Air Force to build digital signal generation technology for Global Positioning System satellites. The Defense Department said Monday that Boeing will help the Air Force to mature GPS-based positioning, navigation and timing systems through the Orbit Reprogrammable Digital Waveform Generator program under a $16.2 million contract. Boeing will perform […] More

  • Gemalto to Help Colorado Agency Print, Secure State Driver's Licenses with Polycarbonate Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Help Colorado Agency Print, Secure State Driver’s Licenses with Polycarbonate Tech

    A Gemalto subsidiary has received a six-year contract to build a turnkey platform for the motor vehicles division of the Colorado Department of Revenue to produce state driver’s license and identification cards. Gemalto said Monday its unit Marquis ID Systems will also provide a central issuance and personalization system for the Colorado DMV to print polycarbonate-based IDs. The system will be […] More

  • VA Issues Dark Web Searching Software RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Issues Dark Web Searching Software RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs is requesting information on commercial software that could be used to search exploited agency data on a dark Web site. In a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday, the VA said it is interested in technology that will employ an encrypted data hash or a pattern matching tool to scan the dark Web for VA-sourced data […] More

  • Air Force Taps Vencore for Cyber Sensing Tech R&D Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Vencore for Cyber Sensing Tech R&D Services

    The research subsidiary of Vencore has been awarded a potential four-year, $8.3 million by the U.S. Air Force to help the military service branch research and develop analog sensing technology for monitoring of digital threats. Vencore Labs and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to build a multi-model analog sensing system through the Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security initiative, the […] More

  • Grant Thornton Moves Hartford, Conn. Office to Downtown Location; Frank Kurre Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Moves Hartford, Conn. Office to Downtown Location; Frank Kurre Comments

    Grant Thornton has transferred its Hartford operations in Connecticut from an office building at 175 Capital Blvd. to a leased space at 90 State House Square located within the city’s primary business district. The company said Wednesday its new 7,928-square-foot facility in downtown Hartford features conference and team rooms with audiovisual and video conferencing systems. Frank Kurre, managing partner for Grant Thornton’s […] More

  • NASA, Lockheed Engineers Test Orion EM-1 Spacecraft Pressure Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Lockheed Engineers Test Orion EM-1 Spacecraft Pressure Vessel

    A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers has conducted proof evaluations on a pressure vessel for the Orion Exploration Mission-1 crew module at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tests aimed to validate if Orion’s underlying structure can withstand loads and forces that spacecraft normally experiences during launch and landing, NASA said Wednesday. Orion program technicians attached […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Industry Help to Build, Implement Contract Writing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Industry Help to Build, Implement Contract Writing System

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on potential industry sources that can help the service branch to design, build, test, implement and sustain an enterprise-grade contract writing system. In a FedBizOpps notice published Monday, the Air Force looks to configure and further develop the Defense Information Systems Agency-hosted Integrated Defense Enterprise Acquisition System as part […] More