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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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  • Leidos' Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    Leidos’ Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments

    Leidos subsidiary Systems Made Simple has secured a potential three-year, $29 million task order to support data repositories the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to share healthcare information with the Defense Department and other external government agencies. Systems Made Simple will develop, expand, update, maintain and plan the implementation of functionalities for the VA/DoD Identity Repository, Veterans Information Solution, Health Data Repository and Administrative […] More

  • Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed, Northrop to Continue MQ-25 Risk Reduction Support to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed, Northrop to Continue MQ-25 Risk Reduction Support to Navy

    Boeing, General Atomics and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have received one-year contract modifications to carry out additional risk reduction activities for the U.S. Navy‘s future unmanned carrier aviation air system. The Defense Department said Thursday that Northrop will refine concepts and develop trade space ahead of the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the MQ-25 UCAAS program under a $24.8 million […] More

  • ManTech Wins 2 Task Orders for DHS Program Mgmt, Technical Services; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Wins 2 Task Orders for DHS Program Mgmt, Technical Services; Daniel Keefe Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded ManTech International a pair of task orders worth a combined $18 million for program management and technical services to the capability development support group at DHS’ science and technology directorate. ManTech said Thursday it won the task orders through the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance II contract vehicle. The company will also assess business […] More

  • Security Walls Awarded NASA Facility Protective Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Security Walls Awarded NASA Facility Protective Services Contract

    Security Walls has been awarded a potential five-year, $45.3 million contract to provide a range of protective services at two NASA facilities located in Alabama and Louisiana. NASA said Wednesday the company will help the agency secure physical infrastructure, technology and personnel as well as support emergency management, training requirements and range operations at the Marshall Space Flight Center and […] More

  • Raytheon Subsidiary Completes UK Type 26 Warship Navigation System Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Subsidiary Completes UK Type 26 Warship Navigation System Integration

    A Raytheon subsidiary has integrated a warship electronic chart display information system with an integrated navigation and bridge system developed for the U.K. navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship program. Raytheon Anschutz also performed a critical design review on the integration of the WECDIS charting software and the Raytheon Synapsis INBS, the company said Wednesday. Synapis is designed with an open […] More

  • Navy Taps Astro Machine Works, Merrill Aviation for Battle Mgmt System Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Astro Machine Works, Merrill Aviation for Battle Mgmt System Components

    Astro Machine Works and Merrill Aviation have won five-year contracts worth up to $41.7 million combined to manufacture, assemble, inspect and deliver gun weapon system components for the U.S. Navy‘s battle management systems. Both contractors will also provide future redesigned and updated assemblies that result from the prototyping, research and developmental phases of BMS programs, the Defense Department said Monday. The […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Tests Navy's Washington Submarine at Sea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Tests Navy’s Washington Submarine at Sea

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has tested the components, systems and compartments of the U.S. Navy‘s future nuclear-powered attack submarine Washington (SSN 787) during an initial round of sea trials. Washington is built through a teaming agreement between HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division and General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary. HII said Monday. The Virginia-class submarine functioned at a high speed underwater […] More

  • Accura-Rosser JV Gets NASA Contract for Marshall Center Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accura-Rosser JV Gets NASA Contract for Marshall Center Support Services

    A joint venture of Accura and Rosser has been awarded a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract to perform engineering design, inspection, master planning and surveillance services at NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center. Accura Rosser 8(a) JV will perform contract work to help address the center’s project, institutional and program objectives for the space agency, resident organizations and […] More

  • Bryan McVeigh: Army to Seek Industry Input on Robotic Mule Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bryan McVeigh: Army to Seek Industry Input on Robotic Mule Development

    The U.S. Army looks to procure as many as 20 robotic mules from industry for operational test and evaluation by the military service’s brigade combat teams, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Stew Magnuson writes Bryan McVeigh, project manager for force protection at the Army, said the service branch will publish a request for information soon to seek input from interested manufacturers […] More

  • InquisIT to Help USDA-APHIS Manage IT Systems; Mike McDermott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InquisIT to Help USDA-APHIS Manage IT Systems; Mike McDermott Comments

    InquisIT has secured a five-year, $17.1 million contract to provide information technology management support for a U.S. Agriculture Department organization that works to protect the health of plant and animal resources. The company said Wednesday it will support hardware, software and systems at USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the firm-fixed-price contract. Mike McDermott, president of InquisIT, […] More

  • Report: Boeing Seeks to Build V-22 Aircraft Modification Hub in Pennsylvania - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Seeks to Build V-22 Aircraft Modification Hub in Pennsylvania

    Boeing has asked the state of Pennsylvania for a $30 million grant to help the company redevelop a vacant industrial building in Delaware County into a modification facility for V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday. Jacob Adelman writes a grant application filed through the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program and obtained by the Inquirer says that […] More

  • NTT Data to Help Update DOJ's Immigration Review IT Support System; Tim Conway Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data to Help Update DOJ’s Immigration Review IT Support System; Tim Conway Comments

    NTT Data has secured a potential five-year, $34.5 million contract to help the Justice Department modernize an information technology support system at DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business and an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, said in a statement published Thursday the company will apply its agile […] More