Justin Sanchez, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's biological technologies office, will officially join Battelle in late June to serve as a technical fellow. Read more
A Perspecta subsidiary and McKing Consulting have won positions on a potential five-year, $48M contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform geospatial research, an... Read more
ICF has won a potential three-year, $20 million task order to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update a cloud-based public health surveillance system. The company said Thu... Read more
ICF has received a $12.4 million contract to develop criteria that will guide the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water in efforts to protect the public from the adverse impact o... Read more
IBM‘s Watson Health unit and the Food and Drug Administration have entered into a two-year research agreement to study the use of blockchain technology to facilitate a secure exchange... Read more
ICF has secured nine contracts worth a combined $34.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support CDC’s public health campaigns. CDC will use the company... Read more
The Transportation Department has awarded Cornell University up to $7 million in funds to lead a research initiative meant to explore technologies that could help reduce potential adverse ef... Read more
Wanda Gamble oversees the health and analytics unit at Battelle as a vice president for the nonprofit science and research organization whose federal healthcare clients include the departmen... Read more
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $350,000 in cooperative agreements to help private and public healthcare sector partners address cybersecurity threats and develop an... Read more
IBM has introduced a new initiative to pick heath organizations that will $500,000 in healthcare engagement and expert assistance in an effort to help address public health challenges. The c... Read more
Vistronix Intelligence & Technology Solutions has been awarded a five-year, $30 million contract to provide information technology and data analytics support to the National Institute of... Read more
DataDirect Networks will provide its cloud and big data storage technologies and other tools to Public Health England for the U.K. agency’s genome sequencing service on pathogenic bact... Read more
ICF International is set to sponsor a new speaker series as part of a longstanding cooperation agreement with George Washington University. The panel discussions, which will start on Jan. 21... Read more
A new Frost & Sullivan report projects the government sector to be among the sources for new options to expand the world’s $9 billion wound care market. The market analyst urged wound ca... Read more
US Government, Tech Firms Eye Use of Smartphone Location Data to Fight COVID-19
The U.S. government is in discussions with health professionals and technology companies such as Google and Facebook about possible ways to obtain insights from smartphone location data to f... Read more