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  • DARPA Taps 1 Firm, 5 Research Orgs for Neural Engineering System Design Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps 1 Firm, 5 Research Orgs for Neural Engineering System Design Program

    Five research organizations and one company have received contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to research and develop technologies needed to create an implantable neural interface that can facilitate communication between the brain and digital systems. DARPA said Monday the awardees will conduct work under the Neural Engineering System Design program that seeks to demonstrate systems […] More

  • ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViraCyte Secures NIH, FDA Grants to Develop, Test T-Cell Immunotherapies

    ViraCyte has secured $3.75 million in contracts from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to continue development work on cellular immunotherapies designed to protect stem cell transplant recipients from severe infections. NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded ViraCyte a $3 million contract to advance clinical development of a T-cell immunotherapy […] More

  • DTRA Funds MerLion-Led Project to Counter Biological Threat Agents - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DTRA Funds MerLion-Led Project to Counter Biological Threat Agents

    A joint project of MerLion Pharmaceuticals and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has received a grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to study the effectiveness of an antibiotic called finafloxacin against biological threat agents. The Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company said Wednesday the project will explore the effectiveness of MerLion’s fluoroquinolone finafloxacin against infections caused by […] More

  • PaxVax, Army Launch Phase I Clinical Trials of Updated Adenovirus Vaccine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PaxVax, Army Launch Phase I Clinical Trials of Updated Adenovirus Vaccine

    PaxVax has begun the initial phase of clinical trials of an updated version of a three-decade-old vaccine against Adenovirus Serotypes 4 and 7 that cause acute respiratory distress that leads to severe pneumonia and hospitalization and occurs in military training centers. The company said Monday it has collaborated with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development […] More

  • Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 'Data Science Bowl' Contest - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Kaggle Name Winners of 2017 ‘Data Science Bowl’ Contest

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle have unveiled the winners of a global crowdsourcing competition that sought data science methods to develop lung cancer detection formulas and technologies. The third annual Data Science Bowl drew nearly 10,000 participants who submitted  algorithms designed to help clinicians detect lung cancer, Booz Allen said Tuesday. The National Cancer Institute provided access to a publicly-available data set of […] More

  • Stimwave Lands DLA Wireless Neuromodulation Tech Distribution Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stimwave Lands DLA Wireless Neuromodulation Tech Distribution Contract

    Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based medical device maker Stimwave has secured a five-year contract to supply spinal cord stimulators to the Defense Logistics Agency. Stimwave said Friday it will provide its Stimwave Freedom Spinal Cord Stimulation device and StimQ Peripheral Nerve Stimulator to DLA under a distribution and pricing agreement negotiated by TAMM Net. Laura Perryman, president and CEO of […] More

  • Engility Eyes NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Eyes NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility plans to leverage its high performance computing experience in the company’s pursuit of NASA‘s Advanced Computing Services contract. The company said Thursday its HPC team includes computational and supercomputing scientists who have previously helped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration design and procure research and development HPC systems. NASA plans to issue a request for proposals on the Advanced Computing Services program that […] More

  • Battelle, Nanotherapeutics Team Up to Develop Medical Countermeasures for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Nanotherapeutics Team Up to Develop Medical Countermeasures for DoD

    Battelle and Nanotherapeutics have forged an alliance to research, develop, test and evaluate medical countermeasures for the Defense Department to protect military personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. The partnership will focus on developing vaccines and therapeutic products against CBRN weapons that pose health risks to U.S. troops deployed worldwide, Battelle said Wednesday. Nanotherapeutics President and CEO Prasad Raje said the […] More

  • CSRA Subsidary's Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidary’s Plague Vaccine Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation

    A plague vaccine being developed by a CSRA subsidiary has received orphan drug status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for pre-exposure prophlaxis of Yersinia pestis infection. CSRA said Wednesday its DynPort Vaccine Company works with the Defense Department on the development of the recombinant rF1V plague vaccine that will be added to the DoD’s medical countermeasures portfolio […] More

  • Kirk Dye on Engility's Key Civilian Bookings in 2016 & GovCon HR Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kirk Dye on Engility’s Key Civilian Bookings in 2016 & GovCon HR Strategies

    Kirk Dye transitioned in February 2016 to a new role as federal civilian business leader for Engility Corp. after nearly two years as senior vice president of human capital strategies at the Chantilly, Va.-based government services contractor. Engility landed a pair of major civilian contract wins in 2016 as part of the company’s new emphasis on […] More

  • FDA OKs Abbott Zika Virus Detection Molecular Test that Involves Whole Blood Usage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA OKs Abbott Zika Virus Detection Molecular Test that Involves Whole Blood Usage

    The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its emergency use authorization for an Abbott-developed molecular test for Zika virus detection to involve the use of whole blood in addition to previous serum and urine sample usage. Abbott said Thursday the RealTime ZIKA test was created for use on the company’s molecular diagnostics instrument called the m2000 RealTime […] More

  • Elusys Delivers Second Anthrax Treatment Batch to US Strategic National Stockpile Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elusys Delivers Second Anthrax Treatment Batch to US Strategic National Stockpile Program

    Elusys Therapeutics has delivered a second batch of monoclonal antibody injections designed for inhalation anthrax treatment to the Strategic National Stockpile after the company received $16.35 million in funds as part of a potential $45 million procurement contract from the U.S. government. The company said Tuesday its ANTHIM injection contains a neutralizing toxin that works to help prevent the spread of anthrax and potential tissue damage in the human body. […] More