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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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  • VA Plans New Enterprise Data Mgmt Task Under T4NG IDIQ Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Plans New Enterprise Data Mgmt Task Under T4NG IDIQ Vehicle

    The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to add a task order under its Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle for enterprise data management support services. VA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice the task will cover technical staff expertise related to data governance and messaging as well as transactional and analytical data processing. The department awarded 21 companies positions on the […] More

  • Airbus Establishes Aerial Imagery Business for Commercial, Govt Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Establishes Aerial Imagery Business for Commercial, Govt Customers

    Airbus has formed a new subsidiary that aims to offer aerial imagery services across the energy, agriculture, insurance and state and local government sectors. Airbus Aerial has main offices in the U.S. and Europe and seeks to use aerospace and software platforms in efforts to help customers obtain and analyze data from unmanned aerial vehicles, high-altitude aircraft and satellites, the company […] More

  • Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has won a potential $13.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, develop and deliver a testbed for Hallmark software and hardware platforms. The Defense Department said Friday that Ball Aerospace’s systems engineering solutions unit will build a testbed architecture that the military branch can apply to space command-and-control tasks, implement […] More

  • Harris-Ligado Networks Partnership Aims to Demo Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight UAS Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris-Ligado Networks Partnership Aims to Demo Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight UAS Operations

    Harris and Ligado Networks have agreed to collaborate in efforts to develop, test and deploy beyond-visual-line-of-sight technologies for unmanned aircraft systems. Both companies aim to showcase joint technologies and expertise to support the integration of commercial drones into U.S. airspace, Ligado said Thursday. The North Dakota Centers of Excellence Commission awarded Harris a two-year grant earlier this year to create aviation-grade […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force

    Charles River Analytics has won a four-year, $8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop artificial intelligence technology for domain experts to understand why decisions were made. The Air Force received 62 offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $1.3 million in fiscal 2016 research, development, test, and evaluation funds at the time of award, the […] More

  • CSRA Lands $57M IT Security Task Order With US Courts; Paul Nedzbala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Lands $57M IT Security Task Order With US Courts; Paul Nedzbala Comments

    CSRA has secured a potential four-year, $57 million task order for information technology security services to the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. The company said Monday it will support the IT security office within AOUSC’s Department of Technology Services under the task order. “We are excited to offer our IT security services to customers throughout the federal judiciary,” […] More

  • BAE Unit Receives Army Incentive Fee for Bradley Testing Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit Receives Army Incentive Fee for Bradley Testing Milestone

    A business unit of BAE Systems has received a $7.9 million “performance incentive fee” from the U.S. Army for the completion of automotive forward speed, acceleration, and slope operation tests on Bradley vehicles. BAE’s land and armaments business secured the payment through a contract modification for the Bradley engineering change proposal effort, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

  • DoD CIO Eyes 5-Year IDIQ/BPA for IT, Cyber, Data Analytics Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD CIO Eyes 5-Year IDIQ/BPA for IT, Cyber, Data Analytics Services

    The Defense Department‘s Office of the Chief Information Officer has launched a market research effort to identify qualified industry sources of technical support services under a possible five-year acquisition program. Washington Headquarters Services said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice the DoD CIO looks to procure mission support services through a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract or a blanket purchase agreement. WHS expects […] More

  • General Dynamics to Provide Cyber, IT Support for Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Provide Cyber, IT Support for Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command

    A business unit of General Dynamics has won a potential $52 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support cybersecurity and information technology programs at the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. General Dynamics Information Technology will also provide subject matter expertise on IT architecture and engineering as well as meteorology, oceanographic and geospatial data systems to NMOC and other subordinate […] More

  • DISA Issues Wideband Comm Ground Infrastructure RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Issues Wideband Comm Ground Infrastructure RFI

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a request for information on the availability of commercial ground infrastructure and related support services for satellite and non-satellite wideband communications systems. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday that Congress asked the Defense Department to perform an “analysis of alternatives” to identify a potential successor to DoD’s Wideband Global Satellite Communication system […] More

  • Coast Guard Looks at Commercial EHR Platform Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Looks at Commercial EHR Platform Sources

    Interested vendors have until May 26 to respond to a U.S. Coast Guard request for information on the possibility of replacing the service branch’s paper-based health data documentation system with an electronic health records system. USCG currently explores potential industry sources of an integrated Electronic Health Record Acquisition platform that can work to secure personally identifiable information and personal health information, according to […] More

  • CSRA to Help Manage EPA's Supercomputing Systems, Laboratory Projects; Paul Nedzbala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Help Manage EPA’s Supercomputing Systems, Laboratory Projects; Paul Nedzbala Comments

    The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded CSRA a potential $58 million contract to provision, maintain and support EPA’s high-performance computing environment and laboratory projects related to environmental modeling and visualization. CSRA said Tuesday it will also provide technical support for scientific computing projects and visualization platforms under the contract. “We are thrilled to secure this new contract […] More