A recent Wall Street Journal report found that as the healthcare industry evolves amidst new pressures, traditional roles provided by care providers, insurers and other industry participants are beginning to overlap and blur. Anna Mathews writes that while Americans are demanding better care, the recent economic downturn has accelerated providers’ need to be efficient and cut costs. [...]
A Bloomberg Government study has found that U.S. government spending on multiple-award contracts (MACs) grew twice as fast as total contract spending between 2006 and 2010, with MAC spending increasing 49 percent to $121 billion over the period. “Multiple-award contracts are starting to become the center of the universe,” Jaime Garcia, president of Washington-based Seville Government Consulting told [...]
Executive Mosaic, publisher of a suite of GovCon media properties, has closed it’s second year of print publishing with its release of the Winter 2011 issue of GovConExec magazine, the eighth and most in depth issue yet. The issue focus is C4ISR: GovCon Leaders Enable a New Era and is a one-stop shop for the driving executive insight and GovCon [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a three-year contract worth $43 million to help improve CDC’s enterprise system support processes, the company announced today. Booz Allen said it will help establish a new process to measure project cost and schedule estimates and build on those findings to drive improvements. Booz Allen [...]
As many government contractors buckle up to endure a long road of predicted government spending cuts ahead, others are looking to the acquisition market to seize new opportunities and expand capabilities while the price is right. Booz Allen Hamilton has indicated it may fall in with the latter, even though its last acquisitions were in 2003 [...]
Booz Allen Hamilton announced it has been awarded a $9.7 million task order to help develop the Federal Aviation Administration’s next generation air transportation environmental management system. Under the order, Booz Allen will support the U.S. Transportation Department, Research and Innovative Technology Administration and the Volpe National Transportation Center in developing new and improved EMS framework. According to [...]
Healthcare IT has traditionally been associated with electronic storage of health records, but that connotation overlooks the transformative nature of healthcare IT and its abilities to revolutionize care taking methods, according to Booz Allen Hamilton and its senior vice president for the firms health care market, Kristine M. Anderson. Booz Allen says it is making an effort to [...]
