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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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  • Carahsoft to Offer Load DynamiX’s Storage Performance Analytics Tool in Federal Sector
    in News, Products & Service

    Carahsoft to Offer Load DynamiX’s Storage Performance Analytics Tool in Federal Sector

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to serve as a master government distributor of a Load DynamiX platform intended to help customers evaluate the performance of pre-production storage appliances. Load DynamiX said Thursday it will collaborate with Carahsoft to offer federal agencies storage performance analytics technology through the NASA-run Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicle. Maryam Emdadi […] More

  • LogRhythm Updates Integrated Security Intell, Analytics Platform; Chris Petersen Comments
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    LogRhythm Updates Integrated Security Intell, Analytics Platform; Chris Petersen Comments

    LogRhythm has added new automation, data management and incident response orchestration tools to a unified cybersecurity offering designed to help enterprises address sophisticated threats. The company said Thursday version 7 of its security intelligence and analytics platform works to collect, examine and prioritize events from multiple disparate information sources. Chris Petersen, LogRhythm co-founder, chief technology […] More

  • Visiongain: 2015 Border Security Market Revenue to Hit $16B
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    Visiongain: 2015 Border Security Market Revenue to Hit $16B

    A Visiongain study, released by ReportLinker, forecasts global revenue from border security platforms and services will be approximately $16.4 billion this year. The 364-page market research report examines key factors that Visiongain believes can affect worldwide, regional and national spending on products designed to help authorities monitor cross-border activities, ReportLinker said Wednesday. Visiongain categorized the […] More

  • FAA, CACI Partner for Drone Tracking System Evaluation; Mike Whitaker, John Mengucci Comment
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    FAA, CACI Partner for Drone Tracking System Evaluation; Mike Whitaker, John Mengucci Comment

    CACI International and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will collaborate to test a company-designed sensor technology meant to help authorities to locate unmanned aircraft systems. Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker told House aviation subcommittee members during a hearing Wednesday that FAA wants to examine the safety and security functions of CACI’s technology and if the platform […] More

  • Army Seeks Methods for Apache Helicopter Coordination with Drone
    in C4ISR News, News

    Army Seeks Methods for Apache Helicopter Coordination with Drone

    The U.S. Army is seeking a contractor to help configure and make the AH-64E Guardian attack helicopter platform conduct missions with an unmanned aerial platform as a team. In a FedBizOpps sources sought notice published Tuesday, the Army said it also aims to embed a radar frequency interferometer and an interoperability function into the AH-64E […] More

  • Engility Helps Vricon Launch GEOINT App Through NGA Program; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments
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    Engility Helps Vricon Launch GEOINT App Through NGA Program; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments

    The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Engility have announced the availability of a Vricon-made application designed to help government users access satellite imagery-derived three-dimensional content. Engility said Monday that Vricon’s Explorer tool is now available on the agency’s GEOINT app store. TASC, a subsidiary of Engility, served as a broker between Vricon and NGA through […] More

  • John Casey: General Dynamics Team Awaits Navy Feedback on Submarine Construction Work-Sharing Plan
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    John Casey: General Dynamics Team Awaits Navy Feedback on Submarine Construction Work-Sharing Plan

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary and Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division are awaiting the U.S. Navy‘s decision on their proposed teaming arrangement for the Ohio-class submarine replacement program, Defense News reported Monday. Christopher Cavas writes John Casey, executive vice president of marine systems at General Dynamics, said the companies submitted a work-sharing plan to […] More

  • ActioNet to Extend NNSA On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure Services
    in Government Cloud, News

    ActioNet to Extend NNSA On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure Services

    ActioNet has received a task order modification to provide additional cloud infrastructure support services to the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration on demand. NNSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday the modification expands ActioNet’s work under a five-year, $6.3 million infrastructure-as-a-service contract originally awarded in February 2013. The company will help reconfigure an IaaS […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Integrates ‘Green’ Propulsion Tech on BCP-100 Spacecraft Bus; Jim Oschmann Comments
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    Ball Aerospace Integrates ‘Green’ Propulsion Tech on BCP-100 Spacecraft Bus; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed the integration of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-built propulsion subsystem into a small satellite Ball is building for NASA‘s Green Propellant Infusion Mission. NASA aims to launch the Ball Commercial Platform-100 spacecraft equipped with Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Green Propellant Propulsion System into orbit next year, Ball Aerospace said Monday. Aerojet Rocketdyne delivered […] More

  • Boeing Helps Air Force Update F-22 Simulator Displays
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    Boeing Helps Air Force Update F-22 Simulator Displays

    Boeing has built and integrated a new visual display technology into the F-22 Raptor flight simulation centers of the U.S. Air Force. The company equipped the F-22 Mission Training Centers with its Constant Resolution Visual Systems with the goal of helping fighter pilots train in 360-degree simulated flying missions, Boeing said Friday. The Air Force […] More

  • Kim Rice: DISA to Recompete Mobile Device Mgmt Services Contract
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    Kim Rice: DISA to Recompete Mobile Device Mgmt Services Contract

    The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency plans to issue a recompete contract to acquire mobile device management services for the U.S. Defense Department, C4ISR & Networks reported Thursday. “We’re finalizing the requirements package and the acquisition strategy, not only for the MDM recompete but really for the program at large to try to leverage lessons […] More

  • NeoSystems to Offer Industry Resources for GSA’s Consolidated Professional Services Acquisition Program
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    NeoSystems to Offer Industry Resources for GSA’s Consolidated Professional Services Acquisition Program

    NeoSystems has introduced a managed service offering intended to help vendors transition to a U.S. General Services Administration-run consolidated professional services contract schedule that took effect Thursday. GSA and NeoSystems also partnered to hold a webinar series for professional services companies to understand how the new consolidated schedule works, NeoSystems said Friday. The company also […] More