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  • Change Healthcare to Offer Enterprise Imaging Systems Through DLA Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Change Healthcare to Offer Enterprise Imaging Systems Through DLA Contract Vehicle

    Change Healthcare has secured a position on the fourth iteration of the Defense Logistics Agency‘s potential 10-year Digital Imaging Network–Picture Archiving and Communications System procurement vehicle for U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday that Military Health System and Veterans Health Administration customers can buy McKesson-built enterprise imaging products that are now part of Change Healthcare’s […] More

  • Eccrine Systems to Continue Sensor Tech Devt Under Air Force Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eccrine Systems to Continue Sensor Tech Devt Under Air Force Contract

    Eccrine Systems has received a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to further develop a sensor technology designed to measure certain biomarkers in human sweat as an indicator of cognitive performance. The company said Thursday it aims to advance development of its sweat sensing technology under the second phase of the U.S. Air Force‘s Small Business Innovation […] More

  • Army, Helius Partner for Neuromodulation Tech Research Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army, Helius Partner for Neuromodulation Tech Research Effort

    The U.S. Army has partnered with Helius Medical Technologies through a cooperative research and development agreement that seeks to improve soldier readiness and resilience with the use of technology. Helius and the Army Research Laboratory will launch an effort to investigate the potential use of the company’s Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator in military cognitive and psychological preparedness efforts, the […] More

  • Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System

    Jerry Hogge, senior vice president of Leidos’ health business, has said the Leidos-led team is on schedule to implement the optimization process for the Defense Department’s commercial electronic health records system over a two-month period, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The report said DoD and the industry team will address the remaining “trouble tickets” received from four test […] More

  • General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order

      A business unit of General Dynamics has received a potential five-year, $31 million task order to provide contact center support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. General Dynamics Information Technology will help CDC establish a multichannel, multilingual contact center as well as integrate and assess technology platforms for the facility, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • GlobalMed Gets DoD ATO Certification for Virtual Healthcare Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GlobalMed Gets DoD ATO Certification for Virtual Healthcare Platform

    The Defense Department has granted GlobalMed an authorization to deploy a company-built virtual health platform on DoD networks. GlobalMed said Tuesday it received authority to operate for its video-based telehealth offering designed to connect providers and patients. The ATO certification also allows the company to provide virtual healthcare applications, software and hardware for integration into the Military Health System. DoD approved the company’s […] More

  • U.S. Air Force, Army Order ZOLL Vital Signs Monitoring Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    U.S. Air Force, Army Order ZOLL Vital Signs Monitoring Systems

    ZOLL Medical will provide deployable vital signs monitors to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army through a sole-source contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. Propaq M is designed to function even in austere military environments and to be configurable into the Propaq MD variant through the addition of an integrated defibrillator and pacer, ZOLL said Wednesday. The company […] More

  • Jacobs Selected to Build Gene Therapy Production Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Selected to Build Gene Therapy Production Facility

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a deal to build a facility for pharmaceutical company Pfizer to manufacture gene therapy products. Jacobs said Thursday it will also design and qualify the multiproduct factory to be constructed at the drugmaker’s Sanford, North Carolina, production site. “Working on this project, we envision a day in the future when these potentially transformative gene therapies […] More

  • Former GTSI CEO Dendy Young Looks to Raise $4M for Precision Medicine Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former GTSI CEO Dendy Young Looks to Raise $4M for Precision Medicine Services

    Dendy Young, co-founder and chairman of Perthera, has said he expects an ongoing investment round to pull in $4 million for the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine services company, Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. He told the publication that Perthera has secured $2.2 million in funding commitments from investors such as Pilot Growth Equity and McLean Capital, where Young […] More

  • DHA to Award EHR Sustainment Support Task Order to Leidos - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHA to Award EHR Sustainment Support Task Order to Leidos

    The Defense Health Agency plans to award Leidos a potential $25 million task order to provide sustainment services for the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application-Composite Health Care System. DHA will issue the fixed-price task order under a blanket purchase agreement to be awarded following a full-and-open competition initiated by the General Services Administration, the […] More

  • Premier to Offer Health IT Products, Services Via GSA Contract Vehicle; Roshni Ghosh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Premier to Offer Health IT Products, Services Via GSA Contract Vehicle; Roshni Ghosh Comments

    Premier has secured a position under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer health information technology products and services to U.S. government customers. The company said Monday its health IT offerings cover electronic health records, research, health analytics, health informatics, health information exchanges, personal health information management. Roshni Ghosh, vice president and chief […] More

  • Terumo BCT Receives DoD Grant for Blood Sterilization Tech Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Terumo BCT Receives DoD Grant for Blood Sterilization Tech Research

    Terumo BCT has received a three-year grant from the Defense Department to study the effectiveness of a new medical technology to cut the risk of bloodborne pathogen transmission in military personnel. The company said Wednesday it will use the funds awarded through DoD’s Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program to further develop the Mirasol pathogen reduction technology. “This new […] More