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Intel and Google’s cloud computing arm have joined a National Institutes of Health program that seeks to provide COVID-19 researchers access to biomedical data from underrepresented groups as part of efforts to improve population health. The NIH All of Us Research Program will make biomedical information available to researchers through the Researcher Workbench platform, which is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors and hosted on Google Cloud.

DLH Holdings has secured a potential seven-year, $42M contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue assisting the AIDS Clinical Trials Group in handling its network coordinating center.

Palantir Technologies has secured a one-year, $36M contract to integrate and manage enterprise data for a National Institutes of Health facility that conducts research into patient treatment delivery processes.

ICF has secured a position on a potential three-year, $49M blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology services to a biomedical library under the National Institutes of Health.

The National Institutes of Health plans to award a sole-source contract to Symplur to avail of the latter’s social media analytics tool for the monitoring and analysis of NIH’s official Twitter accounts.

The National Institutes of Health has entered into an agreement with Premier to license the latter’s healthcare database to support COVID-19 research initiatives.

DLH Holdings has booked contracts and task orders to help the Department of Health and Human Services assess alternative treatment options for COVID-19 and effects of the novel coronavirus on chronic medical conditions.

The National Institutes of Health's Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has featured ManTech's virtual cyber training environment in the NITAAC Solutions Showcase portal, which offers federal agencies insight into IT offerings from industry.

Oracle has built a cloud application system for a National Institutes of Health component to identify qualified participants for large-scale clinical trials of vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies for the novel coronavirus. The registry is designed to screen indviduals who have volunteered to join tests through the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' COVID-19 Prevention Network, Oracle said Thursday.

The National Institutes of Health has entered into an agreement with Israel-based health data platform developer MDClone to leverage the latter’s data analytics engine to support COVID-19 research initiatives.

The Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide acquisition contract, which has unrestricted and small business tracks, is set to expire in May 2022 and the National Institute of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center plans to move the potential $40B CIO-SP4 contract for IT products and services to one GWAC to offer more opportunities to small businesses, Federal News Network reported Thursday.

The National Institutes of Health has issued a request for information on digital technology platforms that could help two NIH organizations respond to the coronavirus pandemic and advance public health response efforts.

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.

Two biologists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are conducting on-site sequencing of the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 using hand-held sequencing systems.

Government and industry leaders took part in Government Matters’ Tech Leadership Series: Innovation program to discuss how cloud computing helps agencies advance innovation, deliver citizen services and carry out their missions. One of the key themes discussed during the program is the cloud’s role in enabling agencies to store and analyze large datasets to advance public service innovation, according to an Amazon Web Services blog post published Monday.