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  • VA Requests Info on Maintenance Support Sources for Real Time Location System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Requests Info on Maintenance Support Sources for Real Time Location System

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for information on potential industry sources of maintenance support services for the Real Time Location System as part of the Veterans Integrated Service Network 10. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says interested vendors should submit a summary of technical capabilities to carry out the services, knowledge of […] More

  • Management Concepts to Support Natl Veterans' Training Institute Under DOL Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Management Concepts to Support Natl Veterans’ Training Institute Under DOL Contract

    The Labor Department has awarded Management Concepts a contract for classroom, virtual and online training support services to the National Veterans’ Training Institute. Management Concepts said Tuesday it will provide professional training and administrative support to workforce development professionals and supervisors of the State Workforce Agency under the NVTI program. The company will also train federal employees who represent the departments of Veterans Affairs, Justice, […] More

  • VA Posts Enterprise Mobile Mgmt System RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Posts Enterprise Mobile Mgmt System RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun to explore potential industry sources of a managed system to facilitate management of authorized mobile phones and tablets across the VA enterprise. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday it looks to migrate approximately 38,000 devices from its current cloud hosting environment and mobile device management software to another private cloud hosted and […] More

  • IBM’s Keith Salzman Cites Govt Programs That Aim to Help Address Substance Abuse Disorders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Keith Salzman Cites Govt Programs That Aim to Help Address Substance Abuse Disorders

    Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer at IBM‘s global business services unit, has said federal, state and local government agencies have partnered with companies and nonprofit organizations to launch efforts that seek to address drug and alcohol use as well as substance abuse disorders in communities. Salzman wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the U.S. Surgeon General’s report […] More

  • Noresco to Update Energy Mgmt Infrastructure at 2 VA Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noresco to Update Energy Mgmt Infrastructure at 2 VA Facilities

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Noresco an energy savings performance contract to implement $22 million in infrastructure upgrades at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in New Mexico and El Paso VA Health Care System in Texas. Noresco said Wednesday it aims to help VA increase energy security, cut heating energy costs by up to 70 percent and meet El Paso VA […] More

  • Deltek Report: Federal Health IT Demand to Reach $6.4B by Fiscal 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Report: Federal Health IT Demand to Reach $6.4B by Fiscal 2021

    A new Deltek report predicts that U.S. federal government demand for vendor-furnished health information technology products and services will hit $6.4 billion by fiscal year 2021 from $6 billion in fiscal 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent. The “Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2016-2021” report forecasts that efforts to digitize, share, analyze and […] More

  • VA Seeks Proposals for Game-Based Training IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Seeks Proposals for Game-Based Training IDIQ

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year contract to provide gaming training products for the Veterans Health Administration. VA said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Dec. 21 the Serious Educational Game Solutions contract will be a set-aside program for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses and will include consulting support […] More

  • PV Puvvada Chosen for Professional Services Council Board, Exec Committee, Civilian Agencies Panel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PV Puvvada Chosen for Professional Services Council Board, Exec Committee, Civilian Agencies Panel

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has been re-elected to a three-year term on the Professional Services Council board of directors and newly elected to serve on the council’s executive committee. Unisys said Friday Puvvada was also selected to chair PSC’s Civilian Agencies Council that oversees acquisition policies and strategies of federal civilian agencies such […] More

  • ID.me Helps VA Implement Online Veteran Healthcare Mgmt Tools; Blake Hall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ID.me Helps VA Implement Online Veteran Healthcare Mgmt Tools; Blake Hall Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented tools from small business ID.me in the agency’s online portal designed to help veterans manage their healthcare and benefits electronically. VA said Wednesday that Vets.gov has met the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Level of Assurance 3 standard for information assurance to provide additional features on a single […] More

  • Engility to Update, Maintain VA Budget Tracking Tool; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Update, Maintain VA Budget Tracking Tool; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has secured a potential $16.8 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to operate, update and maintain a government-owned off-the-shelf application that works to help VA manage programs and operations. The company said Friday the contract contains four 12-month option periods with optional tasks for software upgrades in support of VA’s Budget Tracking Tool. “We value the […] More

  • VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA, Flow Health Partner to Build Medical Knowledge Graph for AI Training

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has forged a five-year alliance with Flow Health to develop a medical knowledge graph that will incorporate deep learning to aid medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence systems on how to personalize care plans. The VA-Flow Health partnership aims to understand common elements that impact a person’s susceptibility to diseases as well as […] More

  • Octo Consulting to Help Modernize Army's Electronic Medical Records System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting to Help Modernize Army’s Electronic Medical Records System

    Octo Consulting Group has secured a potential three-year, $5 million contract from the U.S. Army‘s medical communications for combat casualty care product management office to support the service branch’s military health records system modernization project. The company said Thursday it will develop a medical information system for the Army to manage electronic medical records of service […] More