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TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 23, 2020 —LMI has transitioned Christen Smith from her role as the company's vice president of management advisory services to a new post as VP of federal health and civilian market, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.

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. 

Verlon Johnson, former vice president of health care policy and program management at IBM Watson Health's government health and human services business, has been appointed senior VP of corporate strategy at CNSI. “Her experience and expertise will help us shape our strategy, products, and solutions to meet our clients’ current and future needs," said Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of CNSI and previous Wash100 Award recipient.

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.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 19, 2020 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) appointed acting health unit head Liz Porter to the post permanently, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 4.

Octo Consulting and Indica Labs have partnered to launch the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository, a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health, Octo announced on Thursday.

TechWerks has appointed Yuri Campbell, Army senior health IT executive, as vice president for strategic initiatives, the company reported on Wednesday.

Jacobs has appointed Nino Kharaishvili, a global expert in health security and health system emergency preparedness and resilience, to the company's Federal and Environmental Solutions team as principal of the Health System Resilience practice, the company reported on Thursday.

Battelle has been awarded a potential $400M contract by the Defense Logistics Agency on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to decontaminate N95 respirator masks to be deployed across 60 sites, the company announced on Friday.

ST Engineering has announced that it will utilize mobile robots to help healthcare organizations increase preparedness and create more resources amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, the company announced on Monday. 

Cherokee Nation Businesses’ portfolio of government contracting and professional services companies has adopted the name Cherokee Federal. “Throughout the past decade, we’ve had the honor and opportunity to work with many outstanding federal partners,” Steven Bilby, president of Cherokee Federal, said in a statement published Monday. “In an effort to better align our current and future endeavors with our esteemed government customers, I am pleased to announce Cherokee Federal as our new brand.”

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 13, 2019 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will work with the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate risks to human health after securing a five-year recompete contract worth $48M, GovCon Wire reported Friday. The company said June 6 its work will include studying health risks arising from chemical …

Leidos has received a potential five-year, $57.7M contract to help a U.S. Navy center study how deployments and career-related experiences affect the health of U.S. service members and their families.

The National Institutes of Health has partnered with Amazon Web Services to help agency-backed researchers incorporate cloud-based technologies into biomedical research efforts. AWS said Tuesday it will host various NIH data sets, such as those covered by privacy and security policies, as part of the Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and …

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 …