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  • Metabolon to Help Veterans Affairs Build Database of Retired Military's Metabolomic Profile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metabolon to Help Veterans Affairs Build Database of Retired Military’s Metabolomic Profile

    Metabolon will provide metabolomic profiling services to help the Department of Veterans Affairs identify health biological markers of military retirees through the company’s partnership with AKESOgen. The profiles will be used to build a database of genetic, military and environmental exposure, lifestyle and health information of retired service members for the department’s Million Veteran Program, Metabolon said Thursday. “The […] More

  • State Dept Seeks Industry Help for EHR 'Analysis of Alternatives' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Seeks Industry Help for EHR ‘Analysis of Alternatives’

    The State Department has issued a request for information on vendors that can help develop an “analysis of alternatives” for an upcoming electronic health record system procurement effort. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says that DOS needs industry support to evaluate the potential advantages and risks of the department’s shared EHR services with other federal agencies and examine other EHR commercial off-the-shelf […] More

  • Cherokee Nation Technologies to Back DoD Health Surveillance Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cherokee Nation Technologies to Back DoD Health Surveillance Efforts

    Cherokee Nation Technologies has won a potential five-year, $55 million order from the Defense Health Agency to provide health surveillance support for the Defense Department. DoD said Thursday the company will help maintain existing infrastructure; respond to inquiries from medical and health authorities; and analyze, interpret and disseminate information on the status, trends and determinants of the […] More

  • CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Eyes IT Engineering Task Orders Under $139M HHS NGITS BPA; Kamal Narang Comments

    CSRA will compete for task orders to provide information technology engineering support services for the Department of Health and Human Services under a potential eight-year, $139 million blanket purchase agreement awarded in February. The company said Tuesday the Next-Generation IT Services engineering BPA covers unified communications and collaboration, enterprise mobile management, infrastructure, endpoint, email, facilities and print-server engineering […] More

  • By Light, Cybraics Form Healthcare IT Security Partnership; Bob Donahue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    By Light, Cybraics Form Healthcare IT Security Partnership; Bob Donahue Comments

    By Light Professional IT Services and Cybraics have partnered to expand their healthcare information security and data protection services for the government sector. The partnership seeks to integrate artificial intelligence and security analytics “as a service” platforms into By Light’s cybersecurity portfolio, the company said Monday. By Light CEO Bob Donahue said that adding AI technology into the […] More

  • SAS, VirtualHealth to Offer Integrated Care Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAS, VirtualHealth to Offer Integrated Care Mgmt Platform

    SAS and VirtualHealth have partnered to combine an integrated care management platform with analytics in an effort to help government agencies manage delivery of healthcare services. The alliance plans to integrate SAS’ data management, visualization and analytics tools, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, into VirtualHealth’s care management platform, SAS said Monday. The combined offering is designed […] More

  • DARPA Picks 2 Firms, 2 Universities to Develop Pandemic Response Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks 2 Firms, 2 Universities to Develop Pandemic Response Tools

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts to two companies and two universities to develop tools that can help stop the spread of infectious diseases within 60 days. MedImmune, Abcellera Biologics, Duke University and Vanderbilt University will create technologies for the Pandemic Prevention Platform designed to analyze viruses for antibody discovery and assess candidate therapeutic products, DARPA said Thursday. […] More

  • Cog-MSI Team Lands Contract to Build Army Medical Data Segregation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cog-MSI Team Lands Contract to Build Army Medical Data Segregation Platform

    The U.S. Army and Defense Health Agency have chosen a Cog–Management Sciences Inc. team to develop a dual-persona mobile system that can tunnel the service branch’s unclassified medical information through a classified tactical network. Cog said Thursday it will collaborate with MSI to build a prototype multilevel security platform for Army medics to bypass the declassification process when […] More

  • DARPA Taps General Atomics to Build Portable Diagnostic Platform With Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps General Atomics to Build Portable Diagnostic Platform With Sensor

    A General Atomics business unit has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a portable medical device for military personnel to detect if they have come into contact with an infectious disease. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will equipe the Portable Diagnostic Platform with sensor technology and disposable cartridges designed to perform laboratory-quality molecular […] More

  • Tetra Tech to Help FAA Build Aerospace Medical Info System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech to Help FAA Build Aerospace Medical Info System

    Tetra Tech has received a potential five-year, $40 million contract to develop an aviation personnel medical information tracking system for the Federal Aviation Administration. The company said Tuesday it will provide design, architecture development, test, data analysis, training and deployment support services to FAA under the Aerospace Medicine Safety Information System contract. Dan Batrack, chairman and CEO […] More

  • Change Healthcare to Offer Enterprise Imaging Systems Through DLA Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Change Healthcare to Offer Enterprise Imaging Systems Through DLA Contract Vehicle

    Change Healthcare has secured a position on the fourth iteration of the Defense Logistics Agency‘s potential 10-year Digital Imaging Network–Picture Archiving and Communications System procurement vehicle for U.S. military branches and federal civilian agencies. The company said Thursday that Military Health System and Veterans Health Administration customers can buy McKesson-built enterprise imaging products that are now part of Change Healthcare’s […] More

  • Eccrine Systems to Continue Sensor Tech Devt Under Air Force Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eccrine Systems to Continue Sensor Tech Devt Under Air Force Contract

    Eccrine Systems has received a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to further develop a sensor technology designed to measure certain biomarkers in human sweat as an indicator of cognitive performance. The company said Thursday it aims to advance development of its sweat sensing technology under the second phase of the U.S. Air Force‘s Small Business Innovation […] More