The Military Health System’s GENESIS electronic health record has been introduced to a new set of 15,000 beneficiaries across five states by the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, achieving 50 percent of targeted installations. The new deployment “wave” included 14 military treatment facility commands and the system is now up and running in a total of 1,360 […] More

Leidos has won a prime position on a potential seven-year, $545 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to offer biomedical, preclinical and development research services. The contractor will perform tasks such as chemistry manufacturing and control, analytics, bioinformatics and computational biology under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Reston, Virginia-based company said Wednesday. […] More

Leidos‘ defense health-focused partnership has completed another wave deployment of the U.S. military’s new electronic health record to over 19,000 clinicians and providers at 100 locations in Texas. The recent move brings the goal of delivering the Military Health System GENESIS system to areas within the U.S. and overseas by the end of 2023 to […] More

Leidos will continue providing support services to the Administration of Children and Families’ Office of Child Support Enforcement within the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the potential five-year, $76 million prime contract, Leidos will conduct a range of services, including operations, maintenance, system development and data center operations, in support of OCSE, the company […] More

Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $13 million contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyze and process biological data. The company said Tuesday it will perform scientific computing and bioinformatics services to support CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection. Work under the contract will include information technology, data management, high-performance computing […] More

The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health has continued deployments of the MHS Genesis electronic health records system to military treatment facilities (MTFs) in Nevada, California and Alaska, the company announced Thursday. "We proudly and safely delivered MHS GENESIS on schedule amid a global pandemic," said Liz Porter, president of Leidos' health group.

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Leidos and Rush University System for Health have entered into a two-year, partnership agreement to develop and implement an information technology application that would help medical personnel monitor an emergency department's patient flow in real-time.

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NASA has kicked off its use of specialized transporters built by Wheelift to transport the core stage and test articles of the Space Launch System to various agency centers for tests. The space agency said Tuesday the mobile platforms are designed to carry the 212-foot SLS core stage, the largest part of the SLS rocket built to […] More

Sidus Space has integrated NASA Stennis Space Center's Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications engineering unit into its LizzieSat FlatSat small satellite vehicle in preparation for its upcoming launch. The company said Thursday the integration was completed at its facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and involved multiple integration and communications tests to verify the ability to load the ASTRA flight software into the engineering unit.

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Sidus Space has installed the Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications flight hardware and software version 1.0 on its LizzieSat satellite. The company said Thursday that it was on track to launch the satellite aboard the SpaceX Transporter 10 rocket mission in the first quarter of 2024.

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Howard Porter, corporate director and senior vice president of contracts at CACI International, said the company’s contract management system has become a centralized platform for data that CACI uses to facilitate its decision-making processes, Federal News Network reported Thursday. “Our contract system is really the front-end system for our company,” said Porter. “It feeds our […] More

The United States government has recently been called upon to respond to several urgent and wide-spanning emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a swift, comprehensive federal government response to the crisis in the form of $2 trillion in emergency funding for programming and funding aimed at addressing the impacts. Many natural disasters, from destructive wildfires […] More