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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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  • CACI Gets Extension on Army EW Tech Support Contract; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Gets Extension on Army EW Tech Support Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has secured a multimillion task order to continue its support for the U.S. Army‘s efforts to develop tools against electronic warfare threats. The company said Monday it will also collaborate with the Army’s intelligence and information warfare directorate to engineer software and hardware that work to secure air- and ground-based military platforms from EW attacks. Ken Asbury, CACI president […] More

  • Northrop Launches Unmanned Ground Surveillance Aircraft for NATO; Rob Sheehan Comments
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    Northrop Launches Unmanned Ground Surveillance Aircraft for NATO; Rob Sheehan Comments

    Northrop Grumman on Saturday flew NATO’s first ground surveillance aircraft from a facility in Palmdale to Edwards Air Force Base in California for the vehicle’s inaugural flight. The company based the aircraft from its Global Hawk wide-area surveillance drone and built the platform in an effort to help NATO monitor borders, protect soldiers and civilians and facilitate humanitarian assistance missions, Northrop said […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Concludes AR1 Engine Tech Design Assessment; Eileen Drake Comments
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Concludes AR1 Engine Tech Design Assessment; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has finished a design review of its engine offering to power United Launch Alliance rockets such as Atlas V and Vulcan as well as other launcher platforms for national security satellites of the U.S. The company designed and proposed its AR1 technology as a potential alternative to the Russian-built RD-180 engine that ULA uses to send satellites into space for […] More

  • Lockheed Ships ‘InSight’ Mars Spacecraft for March 2016 Launch; Stu Spath Comments
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    Lockheed Ships ‘InSight’ Mars Spacecraft for March 2016 Launch; Stu Spath Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered a company-built Mars lander to a launch site in California for NASA‘s upcoming mission to study the red planet’s deep interior. A U.S. military aircraft transported InSight on Wednesday from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where the space vehicle will undergo final integration and tests, Lockheed said […] More

  • AT&T, IBM to Integrate Managed IT Service, Cloud Offerings
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    AT&T, IBM to Integrate Managed IT Service, Cloud Offerings

    AT&T and IBM have agreed to further their collaboration as they aim to help organizations manage information technology applications, networks and cloud computing workloads. IBM said Thursday it will oversee AT&T’s managed application and managed hosting services and integrate the offerings into IBM’s cloud portfolio through the partnership. Jon Summers, senior vice president of AT&T’s mobile and […] More

  • Army Fields General Dynamics-Built WIN-T Increment 1 Upgrades
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    Army Fields General Dynamics-Built WIN-T Increment 1 Upgrades

    The U.S. Army has started to implement an updated Warfighter Information Network-Tactical system built by General Dynamics in an effort to increase speed and security of voice, data and video communications among deployed troops. WIN-T Increment 1 modernization involved the consolidation of new and existing tactical communications hardware into virtualized servers to address size, weight and power […] More

  • GCC Innovative Technologies Unveils Govt Contract Pursuit Mgmt Tool
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    GCC Innovative Technologies Unveils Govt Contract Pursuit Mgmt Tool

    GCC Innovative Technologies has launched a web-based platform intended to help companies view and explore contracting opportunities in the public sector. The company said Tuesday that ProDash works to automatically review solicitations from electronic commerce platforms such as FedBizOpps, GovWin and SeaPort-e and match government projects with the interest of contractors. The business development software is also designed to […] More

  • Harriet Green: IBM Eyes ‘Industry-Specific’ Internet of Things Strategy
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    Harriet Green: IBM Eyes ‘Industry-Specific’ Internet of Things Strategy

    Harriet Green, head of IBM‘s Internet of Things business, has said the company seeks an industry-specific strategy to help organizations manage connected devices, Fortune magazine reported Tuesday. Stacey Higginbotham writes IBM will make its Watson cognitive computing technology available to customers through the company’s Internet of Things Foundation cloud-hosted service. The offering will include an application programming interface and predictive and […] More

  • GSA Taps SolarCity for Renewable Energy Project at 9 Federal Buildings
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    GSA Taps SolarCity for Renewable Energy Project at 9 Federal Buildings

    SolarCity will build and operate photovoltaic technology at nine government facilities under a power purchase agreement with the General Services Administration as part of the Federal Aggregated Solar Procurement Pilot initiative. GSA launched the energy procurement and management effort with the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service and Energy Department, EPA said Tuesday. The project will span up to 20 years and […] More

  • Air Force Space Command Selects Telos as System Security Evaluation Agent
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    Air Force Space Command Selects Telos as System Security Evaluation Agent

    Telos has obtained a license from the Air Force Space Command to serve as a special agent of the command’s security control assessor in the evaluation and accreditation of military space systems. The company said Tuesday it will test system, network, application and platform information technology security features as well as assess documentation, policies, procedures and operational […] More

  • Sean Berg: Polycom to Install Unified Comms Platform at NATO’s Future HQ
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    Sean Berg: Polycom to Install Unified Comms Platform at NATO’s Future HQ

    NATO has selected Polycom to help implement a unified communications and collaboration system at the alliance’s new headquarters currently under construction in Brussels. Polycom said Tuesday it will provide its RealPresence platform for NATO’s active network infrastructure in an effort to help its personnel to conduct video conferences as well as send data and voice messages […] More

  • DHS Taps Small Businesses for Sensor, Emergency Response, Security Tech Ideas
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    DHS Taps Small Businesses for Sensor, Emergency Response, Security Tech Ideas

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to collaborate with small businesses to develop tools for management of 13 technical areas identified by DHS’ science and technology directorate and domestic nuclear detection office. Both DHS organizations will gather proposals from industry beginning Wednesday through a joint solicitation for the effort under an upcoming Small Business Innovation Research Program, […] More