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DLH Holdings will continue to help a Department of Health and Human Services agency evaluate grant funding recipients that provide services to children nationwide under a potential $150M contract renewal with an eight-month base period and four one-year options.

DLH Holdings has booked contracts and task orders to help the Department of Health and Human Services assess alternative treatment options for COVID-19 and effects of the novel coronavirus on chronic medical conditions.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2020 — Cognosante hired Bridget Gauer, a federal acquisition veteran and former National Institutes of Health official, as senior vice president of strategy, GovCon Wire reported July 7.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that U.S. hospitals will get more than 500K treatment courses of the drug remdesivir through September under an agreement signed by the Trump administration with Gilead Sciences.

Geospark Analytics has secured a five-year, multimillion-dollar contract to develop artificial intelligence-based disease outbreak models for the Department of Health and Human Services.

BlackBerry has added the Federal Trade Commission and two other federal departments to its customer base for Athoc, an emergency mass notification system certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Carahsoft Technology has reported the availability of Qmulos' audit and compliance monitoring products to the Department of Health and Human Services through a blanket purchase agreement.

Palantir has received a potential $5M contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with its Gotham software to help track and analyze data related to coronavirus outbreak areas and generate insights from hospital inventory, social services data and supply chain capacity to facilitate the decision-making process, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

Jacques Fournier, a U.S. Army veteran, has been named director of sales and health markets at McLean, Va.-based information technology firm HumanTouch.

Honeywell has started manufacturing N95 masks in a facility in Smithfield, R.I., to help the Department of Health and Human Services support safety, health and emergency response personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A report by George Mason University's Center for Government Contracting says the federal government continues to engage with industry in the fight against COVID-19, provides guidance to ensure continuity of operations while protecting the overall workforce health and opens more doors for organizations that want to play a vital role in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Department of Defense has invested $265M to date in industrial partnerships that aim to address the COVID-19 pandemic as well as issued memos for payment and scheduling of contract work.

Palantir, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based big data analytics firm, is collaborating with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help analyze large sets of health data to understand the spread of the new coronavirus, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Bob Brown, former portfolio director at Customer Value Partners, has been elevated to the roles of executive director and strategic account executive for the Department of Health and Human Services, FedHealthIT reported Monday.

Honeywell plans to expand its manufacturing activities in Phoenix to help the government address the COVID-19 pandemic.