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  • BGOV: Federal Spending on Cloud Services to Reach $6.5B in Fiscal 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BGOV: Federal Spending on Cloud Services to Reach $6.5B in Fiscal 2018

    Federal contract obligations on cloud services are expected to rise by approximately 32 percent to $6.5B in fiscal 2018, up from $4.9B in the previous fiscal year, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. BGOV estimates the Defense Department to record approximately $2B in fiscal 2018 cloud services spending and civilian agencies to spend $4.4B on such contracts […] More

  • NIH Plans Motion Capture System Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Plans Motion Capture System Procurement

    The National Institutes of Health looks to replace a motion capture technology that supports research efforts within the functional and applied biomechanics section at the NIH Clinical Center. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says FAB currently uses the platform Vicon Motion Systems built 10 years ago and designed to integrate with custom software and hardware such as force plates, treadmill […] 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

  • LMI to Help CMS Develop Health Care Quality Measures Under Potential $1.6B IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI to Help CMS Develop Health Care Quality Measures Under Potential $1.6B IDIQ

    LMI has secured a position on a potential 10-year, $1.6B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in efforts to develop, implement and align health care quality measures. The company said Wednesday it seeks to expand its presence within CMS and offer data collection and analysis services to help the agency manage patient care […] More

  • 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

  • HHS Seeks AI-Based Acquisition Support Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Seeks AI-Based Acquisition Support Tool

    The Health and Human Services Department has posted solicitations seeking contractors with the capacity to build an artificial intelligence tool for acquisition support, NextGov reported Monday. HHS intends for the future BUYSMARTER Acquisitions system to analytically process contract data through the use of AI, to generate information capable of supporting the department’s procurement activities. The system will be […] 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