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  • Health IT Vet Melissa Chapman Named President of 9th Way Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Health IT Vet Melissa Chapman Named President of 9th Way Solutions

    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 data analytics service areas in […] More

  • Booz Allen Secures FDA IT Life Cycle Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Secures FDA IT Life Cycle Support Contract

    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 posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps. Work […] More

  • Mitre Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Framework; John Kreger Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Framework; John Kreger Quoted

    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 cover device inventory and information […] More

  • Lauri Spencer Joins Analytica's Federal Health Mgmt Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lauri Spencer Joins Analytica’s Federal Health Mgmt Team

    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 Defense Health Agency, Analytica said Thursday. […] More

  • Report: Booz Allen Hamilton Supports FDA Pilot Project for Healthcare Blockchain - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Booz Allen Hamilton Supports FDA Pilot Project for Healthcare Blockchain

    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 report said. Lauren Neal, a […] More

  • Report: Federal Agencies Issue Solicitations for Blockchain-Related Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Federal Agencies Issue Solicitations for Blockchain-Related Contracts

    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 have issued solicitations for contracts […] 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

  • 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

  • General Dynamics to Support Army Medical Tech R&D Efforts Under $52M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Support Army Medical Tech R&D Efforts Under $52M Task Order

    A business unit of General Dynamics has received a potential five-year, $52 million task order to provide strategic support services to a U.S. Army organization that works to develop  pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and medical support equipment for warfighters. General Dynamics Information Technology will provide administrative, programmatic, technical, scientific and logistical support to the Army Medical Materiel Development […] 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

  • Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Box to Help FDA Implement Cloud Content Mgmt Platform

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has selected Redwood City, California-based Box to provide a cloud content management platform for FDA’s information technology modernization project. Sonny Hashmi, managing director of Box’s global government business, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday the company will help FDA digitize and automate processes that leverage content portal for agency personnel to collaborate and exchange […] More

  • Army Seeks Info on Manufacturing Processes for Cryopreserved Platelets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Info on Manufacturing Processes for Cryopreserved Platelets

    The U.S. Army is seeking information on current good manufacturing processes for a cryopreserved platelets product to aid the Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s endeavors to treat severe hemorrhage caused by combat trauma. USAMMDA seeks to develop medical products through collaborations with commercial partners in efforts to protect military combatants as part of the U.S. Combat Casualty […] More