Tag Archives: FDA

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.

CNSI announced on Thursday that Melissa Fannin has joined the company as the senior vice president of Federal Business Development.

The Food and Drug Administration has chosen IBM, Merck, KPMG and Walmart for an initiative that seeks to address standards in the validation and tracking of vaccines and prescription medicines in the U.S.

A new report by Data Foundation and Booz Allen Hamilton reviewed seven federal blockchain projects and identified five factors program administrators and policymakers should consider before implementing blockchain initiatives.

Bryant Headley, a former program manager at the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs, has joined MasterControl as head of sales and customer success initiatives for the government sector.

ElectroCore, a provider of bioelectronic medicine, has received a five-year contract to distribute a hand-held medical therapy product across the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Bureau of Prisons, Indian Health Services and Public Health Services. The company said Wednesday it will provide its gammaCore technology to more than …

Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, has joined Mitre’s Visiting Fellows Program to offer advice on critical national issues. Bill LaPlante, senior vice president for Mitre’s national security sector, said in a statement published Monday Work brings decades of experience and knowledge to the nonprofit company’s national …

The Food and Drug Administration has selected 32 companies and academic entities to provide research and development support services to advance studies in regulatory science under a potential $41.8M multi-award contract. The agency announced the R&D contract awards in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday. The listed winners are: American Society of …

NVIDIA will kick off the third annual GPU Technology Conference on artificial intelligence on Oct. 22 at the Reagan Center in Washington, D.C. Anthony Robbins, vice president for the North American public sector at NVIDIA, wrote in a blog post published Monday the three-day GTC DC event will include panel discussions and …

Melissa Chapman, a former vice president of the civilian and homeland security solutions division at General Dynamics‘ information technology segment, has been appointed  president of service-disabled veteran-owned company 9th Way Solutions. 9th Way said Monday Chapman will be responsible for health IT, enterprise services, cyber and information security, systems and program management and …

Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential $36M contract to support an information technology platform the Food and Drug Administration uses to monitor adverse drug events. The company subsequently received a $5.6M initial task order under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity that covers IT life cycle services for FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, according to a notice …

Mitre has collaborated with the Food and Drug Administration to create a guide for health care delivery organizations to prepare for and respond to security breaches involving medical technology platforms. The Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook is designed to help HDOs, such as hospitals, produce a framework that would …

Lauri Spencer, a two-decade health care information technology veteran, has joined Analytica as director of health programs at the Washington, D.C.-based consulting and IT services provider. She will support the company’s federal health division that offers project support services to customers such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the …

Booz Allen Hamilton has developed a platform to help the Food and Drug Administration‘s Office of Translational Sciences explore healthcare blockchain technology, GCN reported Friday. The platform is built on the InterPlanetary File System for encryption and reduced data duplication purposes, and uses Ethereum for data access management on private networks, the …

Blockchain is likely to gain traction in the federal government in the next fiscal year as agencies seek offers for contracts related to the distributed ledger technology, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The Office of Personnel Management, Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Postal Service are among the agencies that …