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  • Perspecta to Sponsor 7th Annual OSEHRA Open Source Summit; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta to Sponsor 7th Annual OSEHRA Open Source Summit; Mac Curtis Comments

    Perspecta will serve as the conference sponsor of the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance’s three-day summit that will kick off on Wednesday, July 18, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Maryland. “We look forward to a highly interactive conference, and plan to demonstrate our latest efforts in platform development and […] More

  • Carahsoft, Qualys Expand Partnership to Offer Agencies Cloud Security Platform; Craig Abod Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, Qualys Expand Partnership to Offer Agencies Cloud Security Platform; Craig Abod Comments

    Carahsoft has agreed to market Qualys‘ cloud-based security platform to federal, state and local government agencies under an extended partnership agreement between the two companies. The Qualys Gov Platform is certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and designed to secure information technology environments, Carahsoft said Monday. Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said […] More

  • NCI to Review Payment Errors Under HHS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI to Review Payment Errors Under HHS Contract

    NCI has received a five-year, $44 million prime contract to perform payment error rate measurement review services for the Department of Health and Human Services‘ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The company said it will conduct claims review for national-level improper payment rates concerning Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. NCI will also perform studies on state Medicaid and […] More

  • HHS Orders Elusys Anthrax Treatment for Strategic National Stockpile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Orders Elusys Anthrax Treatment for Strategic National Stockpile

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Elusys Therapeutics a $25.2 million contract to supply an anthrax treatment for the country’s national repository of medical countermeasures for public health emergency use. HHS said Monday its Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority provided funds for the company to produce the Anthim monoclonal antibody injection as part of Project BioShield. Elusys will […] More

  • Former HHS CISO Chris Wlaschin joins voting tech firm ES&S in VP role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former HHS CISO Chris Wlaschin joins voting tech firm ES&S in VP role

    Chris Wlaschin, former chief information security officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Election Systems & Software as vice president for systems security. He will lead the voting equipment manufacturer’s product, operational and infrastructure security efforts in his new position, ES&S said Tuesday. ES&S President and CEO Tom Burt said the company aims to provide voting hardware and […] More

  • CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang Comments

    CSRA will compete for task orders to provide information technology engineering support services for the Department of Health and Human Services under a potential eight-year, $139 million blanket purchase agreement awarded in February. The company said Tuesday the Next-Generation IT Services engineering BPA covers unified communications and collaboration, enterprise mobile management, infrastructure, endpoint, email, facilities and print-server engineering […] More

  • Former GSA Deputy CIO Steve Grewal Named Cohesity Federal CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former GSA Deputy CIO Steve Grewal Named Cohesity Federal CTO

    Steve Grewal, formerly deputy chief information officer at the General Services Administration, has joined Cohesity as chief technology officer of federal and Eastern U.S. business at the San Jose, California-based data storage vendor. The 15-year government information technology veteran will lead Cohesity’s expansion efforts expansion efforts in the federal market, Cohesity said Wednesday. Prior to his two-year tenure at GSA, Grewal worked at […] More

  • Kevin Fagan Named ManTech Federal Civilian & Health IT Business General Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Fagan Named ManTech Federal Civilian & Health IT Business General Manager

    Kevin Fagan, formerly a vice president at ManTech International, has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of the company’s federal civilian and health information technology unit. He will oversee the company’s approach to support the missions of federal clients that include the departments of Homeland Security, State, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services, ManTech said […] More

  • Mitre Study Cites Challenges to AI Adoption in Health Care - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Study Cites Challenges to AI Adoption in Health Care

    A new study conducted by Mitre-led independent advisory group JASON for the Department of Health and Human Services has listed several challenges to adoption of AI platforms in the health care field. Those include issues associated with the use of the technology in clinical practice; confluence of AI and smart devices for disease and health […] More

  • Octo Consulting to Help Maintain, Update HHS Quality & Safety Review System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting to Help Maintain, Update HHS Quality & Safety Review System

    Octo Consulting Group has received a potential five-year, $10 million blanket purchase agreement to maintain and update a quality and safety review system at the Department of Health and Human Services. The company said Tuesday it will help manage the QSRS platform that HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality uses to monitor patient safety and adverse events nationwide. […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Rob Silverman, SVP at Booz Allen Hamilton - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Rob Silverman, SVP at Booz Allen Hamilton

    What is so artificial about artificial intelligence? Portrayals of A.I. in movies and television have engineered an image of personable robots, sentient and more humane than humans. In reality, however, A.I. and machine learning processes currently play a major role across a vast spectrum of applications, including but not limited to the military, financial and […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for 'Cloud First' Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for ‘Cloud First’ Compliance

    A Koniag subsidiary has secured a five-year, $19 million contract to aid an office of the Food and Drug Administration in its initiatives to comply with the government’s Cloud First policy. Arlluk Technology Solutions will furnish FDA’s Office of Information Management and Technology with a cloud-based container-as-a-service platform to enable the Department of Health and Human Services agency […] More