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  • ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies

    ViraCyte has secured $3.75 million in contracts from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to continue development work on cellular immunotherapies designed to protect stem cell transplant recipients from severe infections. NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded ViraCyte a $3 million contract to advance clinical development of a T-cell immunotherapy […] More

  • Retired Navy Capt. Charles Litz Joins ARServices as R&D Operations Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Retired Navy Capt. Charles Litz Joins ARServices as R&D Operations Director

    Charles Litz, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former program manager at Advanced Technology Systems Company, has joined management and technology consulting firm ARServices as director of research and development operations. ARServices said Tuesday Litz will lead the company’s efforts to grow its federal market footprint and oversee business relationships with government customers such as the Defense Threat […] More

  • Capstone to Extend Mgmt Support for Navy-Marine Corps Intranet Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone to Extend Mgmt Support for Navy-Marine Corps Intranet Program

    Capstone has secured a task order to provide continued program management support for the enterprise network of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Wednesday it will help the Commander, Navy Installations Command to manage the Navy Marine Corps Intranet program under the task order awarded via the Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 contract vehicle. […] More

  • MRIGlobal to Evaluate Tech, Specimen Processes for NIH Tuberculosis Research Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MRIGlobal to Evaluate Tech, Specimen Processes for NIH Tuberculosis Research Initiatives

    A National Institutes of Health division has awarded MRIGlobal a potential $ 13.7 million contract to provide evaluation services in support of research initiatives on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The company said Feb. 1 it will work to analyze Mtb tools and specimen processes for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases clinical investigations under the Mtb Quality Assessment requirement. […] More

  • DoD Taps Smartronix for On-Site Managed IT Services; John Parris Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Taps Smartronix for On-Site Managed IT Services; John Parris Comments

    Smartronix has secured a task order through a National Institutes of Health-run information technology contract vehicle to provide on-site managed services to  the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday it will deliver cloud services such as infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service to DoD and department-approved mission partners on premises. Smartonix received the order under the Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide […] More

  • PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development

    PaxVax has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department to produce a commercial vaccine for the chikungunya virus. The company said Thursday it licensed NIH’s virus-like particle vaccine technology for chikungunya and aims to fully commercialize the vaccine through the collaborative effort. NIH currently evaluates the vaccine under a second-phase trial and PaxVax noted it plans […] More

  • Capstone Obtains Govt IT Support Contract Spot Through New Business Acquisition Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone Obtains Govt IT Support Contract Spot Through New Business Acquisition Deal

    The National Institutes of Health‘s information technology acquisition and assessment center has novated an information technology support contract to Capstone after the company purchased an unnamed business. Capstone said Wednesday it earned a spot under all 10 task areas of the potential 10-year, $20 billion Chief Information Officers – Solutions and Partners 3 government-wide acquisition contract […] More

  • Agriculture Department Invests $5M in Cyber Physical Systems Research; Sonny Ramaswamy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agriculture Department Invests $5M in Cyber Physical Systems Research; Sonny Ramaswamy Comments

    The Agriculture Department’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has invested up to $5 million in a research program that aims to mature the technology behind internet-connected agricultural resources. The investment is part of NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative and is intended to coordinate other agencies to update complex cyber-physical systems, USDA said Friday. […] More

  • CSRA Subsidiary Lands Spot Under $159M Medical Product Development IDIQ With NIAID - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidiary Lands Spot Under $159M Medical Product Development IDIQ With NIAID

    CSRA‘s (NYSE: CSRA) DynPort Vaccine subsidiary has been awarded a spot on a potential 10-year, $159 million contract to handle various medical product development initiatives for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. DynPort will work to create manufacturing processes and analytical test methods, characterize and manufacture products and provide regulatory support for the […] More

  • NIH Seeks Industry Input on Digital Scientific Data Sharing, Mgmt & Citation Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Seeks Industry Input on Digital Scientific Data Sharing, Mgmt & Citation Strategies

    The National Institutes of Health has asked industry to provide information on scientific data sharing and management methods as well as standards for software and data citation. NIH issued the request for information as part of the implementation of the agency’s Plan for Increasing Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Scientific Data from NIH Funded […] More

  • Aptinyx Receives NIH Grants for Neurologic Disorders Treatment R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptinyx Receives NIH Grants for Neurologic Disorders Treatment R&D

    Aptinyx has received three grants worth potentially $2.85 million from the National Institutes of Health to research and develop new therapeutic compounds for neuropathic pain and age-related cognitive decline. The NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded Aptinyx a one-year, $1.25 million grant to fund the development of compounds for neuropathic pain treatment, the biopharmaceutical company said Thursday. […] More

  • ASRC Federal's Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASRC Federal’s Vistronix Subsidiary to Engineer Wideband Control Systems for Army

    ASRC Federal‘s Vistronix subsidiary has secured a three-year, $14.1 million contract for engineering and technical work on the U.S. Army‘s wideband controls systems. The Army received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated $1.3 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal 2016 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Friday. Vistronix will perform […] More