The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched OneRecord, a consumer-facing health platform, to enable veterans to digitally access medical records from nationwide VA locations. Under the VA Lighthouse API program, OneRecord features a user-centered design, security and accessibility standards and is one of the first consumer-facing applications to connect veterans and their health data.
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Jennifer Felix, President and CEO of ASRC Federal
Jennifer Felix, president and chief executive officer with ASRC Federal, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent rebranding effort. The rebranding initiative, which launched nearly five months after Felix took the helm in her new role, highlights corporate legacy and heritage through capability-driven messaging. Check out ExecutiveBiz.com to see the most recent Executive Spotlight interviews.
Read More »SAIC Launches R3 Portfolio to Provide Workforce Solutions in Response to COVID-19; Mark Forman Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has launched its R3 portfolio of solutions designed to help federal government customers meet new work challenges and opportunities related to remote work, resiliency, and digital government services resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. SAIC’s R3 solutions will help the government respond, recover and restructure by enhancing lifecycle and providing new solutions.
Read More »Perspecta, NextgenID Partner to Develop Remote Identity Verification Platform; Jeff Bohling Quoted
Perspecta has entered into a collaboration agreement with NextgenID to develop an identity proofing solution to remotely assess and verify the identity of individuals who apply for credentials to gain physical and network access to government facilities, Perspecta reported on Tuesday. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) updated the SP800-63A standard to enable the use of remote identity proofing for federal agencies.
Read More »Maximus Launches Public Health Unit, Appoints Executive Leadership; Bruce Caswell, Andrew Sommers Quoted
Maximus has launched Maximus Public Health (MPH) to provide resources to help remediate COVID-19 and other public health threats for government agencies. To support the new division, Maximus has added five additional public health professionals to establish the MPH mission and structure. MPH will collaborate with academic partners, conduct research and expand partnerships with public health agencies.
Read More »NIH Deploys Premier’s Health Database for COVID-19 Patient Impact Research
The National Institutes of Health has entered into an agreement with Premier to license the latter’s healthcare database to support COVID-19 research initiatives.
Read More »BlackSky to Help Air Force Conduct GEOINT-Based Analysis of COVID-19 Impact
Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky subsidiary has received a contract to support the U.S. Air Force's efforts to monitor COVID-19 activity at military bases through the company’s proprietary geospatial intelligence technologies.
Read More »Industry Groups Urge Lawmakers to Approve $1B for Tech Modernization Under HEROES Act
Matthew Cornelius, executive director at the Alliance for Digital Innovation, has said that Congress needs to approve $1B in Technology Modernization Fund allocations in the next increment of a COVID-19 relief bill, FedScoop reported Monday.
Read More »Apple, Google, Microsoft Partner With Public Health Org to Deploy COVID-19 Monitoring App
The Association of Public Health Laboratories has formed a partnership with Microsoft, Apple and Google to launch a mobile notification system and cloud-based server to support health agencies’ COVID-19 contact tracing efforts.
Read More »NAVSEA Explores Wearable Tech Sources for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Initiative
Naval Sea Systems Command is seeking information on wearable commercial devices, prototypes and approaches that could support contact tracing efforts amid the coronavirus pandemic. NAVSEA said Wednesday in a sources sought notice its COVID Rapid Response Team is interested in using proximity trackers and a system to transfer data from the wearable technology to stations.
Read More »Deloitte Publishes Resources Study Analyzing Impact of COVID-19 on Energy; Marlene Motyka, Jim Thomson Quoted
Deloitte has released its 2020 Resources Study, "Energy Management: Paused by Pandemic, but Poised to Prevail," noting advanced efforts to manage energy use, reduce carbon emissions and address climate change amid the pandemic, the company announced Wednesday.
Read More »Army Research Institute, SwRI Partner on COVID-19 Treatment R&D Initiative
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research partnered with Southwest Research Institute in Texas to utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning and high-performance computing to detect compounds that could target the novel coronavirus, Nextgov reported Thursday.
Read More »L3Harris’ Nino DiCosmo on New Radio Offerings, Emergency Comms Partnerships
L3Harris Technologies has provided its LTE and land mobile radio offerings to support connectivity applications for healthcare agencies and first-responders amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Urgent Communications reported Wednesday.
Read More »Brad Tousley: Raytheon to Adapt Cybersecurity Tool for COVID-19 Testing
A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary is developing a novel coronavirus detection kit through the use of a tool originally designed to detect malicious threats in network traffic.
Read More »MDClone, NIH Partner to Help Drive Analytics-Based COVID-19 Research
The National Institutes of Health has entered into an agreement with Israel-based health data platform developer MDClone to leverage the latter’s data analytics engine to support COVID-19 research initiatives.
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