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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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  • Yogesh Khanna: CSC-MobileIron Team Aims to Help Federal Clients Bolster Mobile Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Mobility, News

    Yogesh Khanna: CSC-MobileIron Team Aims to Help Federal Clients Bolster Mobile Security

    Computer Sciences Corp. and MobileIron will collaborate to develop cloud-based applications designed to help U.S. military and civil government organizations secure mobile data. The companies seek to integrate MobileIron’s enterprise cloud device management platform into CSC’s mobile security offerings for the federal sector, MobileIron said Wednesday. MobileIron says its technology is built to manage iOS […] More

  • BlackBerry's Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    BlackBerry’s Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

    The need for stronger cyber protection has reached a “critical juncture” and lawmakers should consider introducing measures to close the information technology skills shortage, BlackBerry‘s Jeffrey Ait writes in an opinion piece for Nextgov. Ait, BlackBerry vice president and head of its U.S. public sector business, says two recent studies indicated the current government IT […] More

  • Mark Johnson: Oracle Expands Cloud SaaS Offerings for Federal Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Featured, General, Government Cloud, News

    Mark Johnson: Oracle Expands Cloud SaaS Offerings for Federal Clients

    Oracle has introduced three software-as-a-service platforms for U.S. federal agencies to manage human resources, sales, accounting and other enterprise functions in the cloud. The Oracle Government Cloud suite is designed to help agencies meet the U.S. government’s “First Cloud” policy and now includes Human Capital Management Cloud, Sales Cloud and Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud products, […] More

  • Exelis Receives Pentagon Certification for F-16 Electronic Warfare Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in C4ISR News, News

    Exelis Receives Pentagon Certification for F-16 Electronic Warfare Tech

    The U.S. Defense Department has approved Exelis-made electronic warfare pods for installation aboard Block 15 F-16A/B fighters operated by foreign military sale customers. Exelis said Thursday its Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System has been validated through the SEEK EAGLE aircraft-stores certification program. The AIDEWS approval could be immediately extended to domestic and international F-16 […] More

  • David Melcher: Aerostructure Business Key to Exelis' Peformance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    David Melcher: Aerostructure Business Key to Exelis’ Peformance

    David Melcher, CEO of Exelis, has said the company applied previous spinoff experience in order to carry out the separation of its mission systems business in just nine months, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Melcher told WBJ reporter Jill Aitoro in a recent interview he expects the shareholder base of government services spinoff company […] More

  • Chris Chadwick: Boeing to Shift Defense Support Operations to Missouri, Other US Sites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Chris Chadwick: Boeing to Shift Defense Support Operations to Missouri, Other US Sites

    Boeing plans to transfer most of its defense support functions to St. Louis, Oklahoma City and other sites from Washington. The company estimates the relocation will take three years to complete and affect approximately 2,000 defense workers at the company’s offices in the Puget Sound area, Boeing said Monday. “The decision to consolidate these activities […] More

  • Razorsight, Kodiak Networks Form Push-to-Talk Analytics Partnership; Paul Tardif Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    Razorsight, Kodiak Networks Form Push-to-Talk Analytics Partnership; Paul Tardif Comments

    Push-to-talk technology firm Kodiak Networks has selected Razorsight‘s cloud analytics platform to help PTT service providers gain insight into customer behavior and improve user experience. Razorsight said Monday it will provide its Executive Insights and Real-Time Predictive Analytics technology to Kodiak Networks with the goal of helping that company’s mobile operator clients redurn churn rate […] More

  • HP, IBM, Oracle Named Top Integrated Platform Vendors in IDC Report - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    HP, IBM, Oracle Named Top Integrated Platform Vendors in IDC Report

    An IDC report says the integrated platforms and infrastructure industry generated $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of 2014, a 33.8 percent increase on a year-over-year basis. IDC said Thursday storage capacity shipped by integrated system vendors worlwide grew 63.4 percent to more than 833 petabytes during this year’s Q2 compared with the […] More

  • Raytheon, WB Electronics Team up for Polish Weapon System Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Raytheon, WB Electronics Team up for Polish Weapon System Competition

    Raytheon and Poland-based technology firm WB Electronics have formed a team to pursue the Polish military’s air and missile defense system development contract. The companies seek to develop a combat simulation and training software for the Shield of Poland AMD competition, WB Electronics said Friday. They also agreed to collaborate on finding potential technology export […] More

  • Study: North America to Capture 55% Big Data Market Share by 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    Study: North America to Capture 55% Big Data Market Share by 2018

    A Transparency Market Research study projects North America would continue its lead in big data spending and capture approximately 54.5 percent share of that market globally through 2018. The worlwide big data products and services market’s value is forecast to increase from $6.3 billion in 2012 to $48.3 billion in 2018, Transparency Market Research said […] More

  • Report: Pentagon to Release Joint Tactical Vehicle Production RFP in November - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Report: Pentagon to Release Joint Tactical Vehicle Production RFP in November

    The U.S. Army and Marine Corps could issue a request for proposals for their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program in mid-November and award low-rate initial production contracts by summer 2015, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Brendan McGarry writes Lockheed Martin, AM General and Oshkosh lead three industry teams that have built 22 JLTVs each under engineering […] More