The National Institute on Drug Abuse within the National Institutes of Health has awarded Westat a potential $809.1 million contract to continue providing data collection and analysis support for the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. NIDA issued a solicitation in June and secured two proposals for the research and development contract in support of the PATH Study, according to an award notice published Thursday.

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Oswaldo Holguin, a finance executive whose experience spans more than three decades, has been appointed vice president and chief financial officer at research services provider Westat. He brings to the position his leadership experience and expertise in strategic planning and implementation, accounting, expansion strategies, investments and new business design, Westat said Thursday.

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Renee Slobasky, a senior vice president at Westat, has been named chair of the board of directors at the Rockville, Maryland-headquartered professional services company. She will succeed James Smith, who retired after nearly four decades of service at the company, Westat said. Prior to Slobasky assuming the chairmanship of the Westat board, she was a […] More

Sunitha Mathew was named as clinical research practice director at Westat, where she previously worked as a vice president in public health. She brings to her new role over two decades of experience in clinical, epidemiological and translational research program oversight, the employee-owned professional services firm said Thursday.  Mathew, whose appointment took effect Feb. 2, […] More

Westat and Stanford University School of Medicine have released data from the Coronavirus Attitudes and Behaviors Survey on the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on Americans. The dataset is now available through a Westat partnership with Metadata Technology North America. Lawmakers, researchers and the general public can use it to help the U.S. recover from the pandemic. The survey was performed in May of 2020.

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Westat has appointed Dwight Feanny as vice president and chief information officer responsible for managing corporate and project IT technologies, systems, services and staffing. “We are happy to welcome Dwight to Westat and look forward to his contributions to our IT operations and strategy teams as we continue to bring innovative technology solutions to our clients’ complex challenges,” said Westat President and CEO Scott Royal.

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Scott Royal, president and CEO of Westat, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his appointment as CEO, his strategy for growing the company through leveraging research expertise and specialized IT capabilities, and his approach to dealing with the “new normal” in a COVID-19 world. 

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Westat has secured a potential 10-year, $93.5M contract to help the Department of Education design and perform early childhood longitudinal studies. The Rockville, Md.-based company will assist in department efforts to collect data on children’s early learning and development, preschool care and education experiences, transition into kindergarten and progress through elementary grades, according to a […] More

Spire Global has been named a subcontractor in a potential eight-year, $29 million contract that NASA awarded to Harris Miller Miller & Hanson to support the second and third phases of the space agency’s Low-Boom Flight Demonstration initiative using the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft. “As NASA develops supersonic technology and aircraft, we join […] More

Massachusetts-based company Harris Miller Miller & Hanson has received a potential eight-year, $29 million contract to help NASA plan, implement and document community overflight tests of an experimental supersonic aircraft fitted with noise reduction technology.

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The Professional Services Council (PSC) announced new members to its Board of Directors on Friday. Kevin Phillips, chief executive officer of ManTech International and 2019 Wash100 Award winner, became the newest board member after being approved during a PSC board meeting on June 18th.

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