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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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  • Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Army Security Assistance Training Support Under Potential $250M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Army Security Assistance Training Support Under Potential $250M Contract

    American Systems plans to offer a range of aviation training services to the U.S. Army‘s Security Assistance Training Management Organization under a potential five-year, $250 million contract awarded in May. The company said Monday it seeks to provide basic and highly technical flight, operational planning and maintenance technical advice and assistance support for SATMO’s aviation security assistance […] More

  • Envistacom to Help Manage Tactical Comms at Army Enterprise Satcom Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Envistacom to Help Manage Tactical Comms at Army Enterprise Satcom Facility

    Envistacom has secured a five-year, $10 million delivery order to support tactical communications systems at the U.S. Army‘s Enterprise Satellite Communications Gateway Facility in Landstuhl, Germany. The company said Wednesday it will help manage the facility’s systems built to aid training and operational missions of Army and joint forces deployed in Europe, Middle East and Africa. […] More

  • Chemring Subsidiary to Produce Simulator Flares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring Subsidiary to Produce Simulator Flares for Navy

    A Chemring Countermeasures USA subsidiary has won a potential five-year, 30.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture up to 1,260,638 simulator flares designed for use by pilots and ordnance technicians. Chemring’s Kilgore Flares business will produce the SM-875/ALE training flares at a company facility in Toone, Tennessee, and is scheduled to finish work […] More

  • Rhoads Awarded Navy Shipboard Machinery Installation, Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rhoads Awarded Navy Shipboard Machinery Installation, Maintenance Contract

    Rhoads Industries has been awarded a three-year, $49 million contract by the U.S. Army to fabricate, install, test, maintain and remove U.S. Navy shipboard machinery systems and related components. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform contract work through Aug. 7, 2020, at multiple test sites and buildings located at the Naval Surface Warfare […] More

  • American Systems Gets USAFE IT Support Task Order Under NETCENTS-2 IDIQ; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems Gets USAFE IT Support Task Order Under NETCENTS-2 IDIQ; Peter Smith Comments

      American Systems has received a potential five-year, $12 million contract to provide information technology and program management services to U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa Command Surgeon. The company said Monday it will help both military organizations update IT and information management processes across USAFE military treatment facilities and medical programs. “This is […] More

  • CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems

    A CACI International subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $29.8 million contract to provide life cycle support for Red Falcon signals intelligence systems currently installed on U.S. Navy ships and shore facilities. BIT Systems will engineer, update and maintain software, repair and provide technical services for the military branch’s foreign instrumentation SIGINT sensors as part of the […] More

  • AECOM Subsidiary Lands $69M NASA Lab Operations Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Subsidiary Lands $69M NASA Lab Operations Support Contract

    AECOM‘s URS Federal Services subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $69.4 million contract to provide laboratory support services and help manage operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Work covers lab maintenance, support and operational services as well as professional and technical support for the center’s scientific research and engineering analysis, test and evaluation activities, NASA said […] More

  • DHS Extends eGlobalTech's FOIA Support Services Contract; Joseph Zimmerman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Extends eGlobalTech’s FOIA Support Services Contract; Joseph Zimmerman Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded eGlobalTech a four-year contract to continue to help DHS’ privacy office manage Freedom of Information Act-related requests and backlogs. Arlington, Virginia-based eGlobalTech said Tuesday it has provided FOIA request support, process improvement, project management, research and data analysis services to DHS since 2015. “We helped reduce FEMA’s FOIA […] More

  • ManTech Awarded USAF Business, Network IT Support Contract; Bill Varner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Awarded USAF Business, Network IT Support Contract; Bill Varner Comments

    ManTech International has won a potential 10-year, multimillion dollar contract for integrated management and business support services to the U.S. Air Force. The contract represents new work for the company and includes network information technology services, ManTech said Thursday. Bill Varner, president of ManTech’s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group, said the company has supported […] More

  • ARCTEC to Extend Air Force Radar O&M Support in Alaska - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARCTEC to Extend Air Force Radar O&M Support in Alaska

    ARCTEC Alaska, an ASRC Federal Primus–ATCO Structures and Logistics joint venture, will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage a military radar system installed in Alaska under a $37.9 million contract modification. The modification exercises a 12-month option under the company’s Alaska Radar System operations and maintenance contract with the service branch, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Leidos Gets $61M Contract Funds to Help Army Sustain Aerial IED Neutralizer Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets $61M Contract Funds to Help Army Sustain Aerial IED Neutralizer Platform

    The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a potential $61 million contract modification to help manage an aerial platform built to help U.S. and international security assistance forces neutralize improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. Leidos will support operations, sustainment and integration of Saturn Arch quick reaction capability systems through Sept. 16, 2018, under the modification, the Defense […] More

  • Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ

    Joint Tactics and Technologies has won a potential five-year, $18 million contract to provide cyber support for the U.S. Navy‘s computer network defense efforts. JTT will help the Navy configure and sustain networks as well as analyze, evaluate, integrate and implement security products under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur in San […] More