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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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  • Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Leaves ISS to Begin In-Orbit Research Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Leaves ISS to Begin In-Orbit Research Mission

    Orbital ATK‘s cargo ship Cygnus is set to proceed with three in-orbit scientific missions after the spacecraft completed its mission to deliver around 7,900 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. Cygnus, nicknamed S.S. Rick Husband, departed from the orbiting laboratory Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time after an 81-day stay there, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. The OA-6 mission represents the company’s fifth mission under […] More

  • DSS-SSL Team Helps NASA Develop Space-Based Solar Array Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSS-SSL Team Helps NASA Develop Space-Based Solar Array Tech

    NASA has partnered with Deployable Space Systems and Space Systems Loral to develop solar cell structures designed to power government space vehicles or commercial communications satellites. Roll Out Solar Array will work to convert the sun’s rays into energy that could drive ion thrusters of solar electric propulsion spacecraft for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission and other deep-space exploration programs, the agency said […] More

  • BAE to Add Laser-Guided Rockets to Air Force F-16, A-10 Planes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Add Laser-Guided Rockets to Air Force F-16, A-10 Planes

    The U.S. Air Force has started to field a BAE Systems-built laser-guided rocket technology on the service branch’s F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft to support ongoing combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It marks the first time that BAE’s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System has been deployed on fixed-wing Air Force aircraft, the company said Wednesday. “The APKWS fixed-wing fielding […] More

  • National Post: Canada Eyes Super Hornet Procurement to Help Fill Air Combat Capability Gap - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    National Post: Canada Eyes Super Hornet Procurement to Help Fill Air Combat Capability Gap

    Canada looks to procure Boeing-built F/A-18E Super Hornets as an “interim measure” to address a looming capability gap in the country’s military fighter aircraft fleet, the National Post reported Monday. Lee Berthiaume and John Ivison write Canada could replace its military’s aging fleet of CF-18 Hornets with Super Hornets before the Canadian government decides on whether to go ahead with acquisition of […] More

  • Airbus to Develop Landing System for Russian-Built Robotic Lunar Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Develop Landing System for Russian-Built Robotic Lunar Spacecraft

    An Airbus Group subsidiary has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to develop landing technology for integration with the Russian Luna-Resource robotic lunar vehicle. Airbus’ defense and space business will build the Precise and Intelligent Landing using Onboard Technologies system in support of a moon exploration project between ESA and Russian space agency Roscosmos, Airbus said Thursday. The PILOT Phase B and […] More

  • Lockheed-Sikorsky Team Would Get Combat Rescue, Presidential Helicopter Production Funds Under Senate Bill - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Sikorsky Team Would Get Combat Rescue, Presidential Helicopter Production Funds Under Senate Bill

    A fiscal 2017 defense funding bill introduced in the Senate would provide $576.1 million funds to a Sikorsky–Lockheed Martin team to continue work on the Combat Rescue Helicopter for the U.S. Air Force and the Marine One presidential helicopter replacement. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) has urged members of Congress to pass the Senate’s defense appropriations bill to help Lockheed […] More

  • SAP NS2's Mark Testoni: Tech Becoming Essential to Cybersecurity, Intell Fusion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Tech Becoming Essential to Cybersecurity, Intell Fusion Efforts

    Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said that SAP NS2 is exploring new cybersecurity and intelligence collection methods in an interview with IT Business Edge published Wednesday. IT Business Edge quoted him as saying he believes commercial technology can help government agencies to protect systems against cyber threats and fuse traditional and open-source intelligence sources. […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed-MBDA Team Hopes to Close Germany MEADS Deal By 2016's End - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed-MBDA Team Hopes to Close Germany MEADS Deal By 2016’s End

    Lockheed Martin and MBDA aim to finalize an estimated $4.5 billion deal with Germany for the Medium Extended Air Defense System by the end of this year, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes Thomas Homberg, a managing director at MBDA, told Reuters the German government has expressed “strong support” for the procurement effort and he expects the deal to receive parliamentary approval before the […] More

  • Liteye Systems to Provide Technology for FAA's Airport Drone Detection Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liteye Systems to Provide Technology for FAA’s Airport Drone Detection Tests

    The Federal Aviation Administration has chosen Liteye Systems to provide a counter unmanned aerial vehicle technology for evaluation at domestic airports as part of the agency’s Pathfinder Program. FAA and Liteye signed a cooperative agreement to test the Anti-UAV Defense System developed by British companies Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems, Blighter said Tuesday. Liteye acts as the North American manufacturing […] More

  • Lockheed Extends Avcorp's Composite F-35 Panels Fabrication Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Extends Avcorp’s Composite F-35 Panels Fabrication Contract

    Avcorp Industries has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to continue to manufacture composite wing skin, nacelle and body access panels for the F-35 program. The contract will extend Avcorp’s work on composite F-35 panels at a company facility in Gardenia, California, through 2020, Avcorp said Tuesday. Lockheed awarded Avcorp a firm order in mid-April to provide paint preparation and installation services […] More

  • Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement

    The U.S. Navy is considering changing its procurement strategy for the Next Generation Enterprise Network program from a sole-source method to a multiple-award contracting model, SIGNAL Magazine reported Wednesday. Robert Ackerman writes Capt. Michael Abreu, Naval Enterprise Networks program manager, said the Navy seeks to engage with vendors in order to determine if segmentation of NGEN offerings would help the military branch address future information technology requirements. A […] More

  • Centerra to Extend Facility Maintenance Support for DOE Power Marketing Org - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Centerra to Extend Facility Maintenance Support for DOE Power Marketing Org

    Centerra Group has been awarded a five-year contract to provide facilities maintenance services to an Energy Department organization that markets and distributes electricity in the Pacific Northwest. The company said Friday the contract with DOE’s Bonneville Power Administration is scheduled to run through 2021. BPA sells wholesale power from 31 federally-backed hydroelectric power stations located in the Columbia River Basin, one non-federal nuclear […] More