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  • Health IT Vet Melissa Chapman Named President of 9th Way Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Health IT Vet Melissa Chapman Named President of 9th Way Solutions

    Melissa Chapman, a former vice president of the civilian and homeland security solutions division at General Dynamics‘ information technology segment, has been appointed  president of service-disabled veteran-owned company 9th Way Solutions. 9th Way said Monday Chapman will be responsible for health IT, enterprise services, cyber and information security, systems and program management and data analytics service areas in […] More

  • Booz Allen Secures FDA IT Life Cycle Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Secures FDA IT Life Cycle Support Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential $36M contract to support an information technology platform the Food and Drug Administration uses to monitor adverse drug events. The company subsequently received a $5.6M initial task order under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity that covers IT life cycle services for FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, according to a notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps. Work […] More

  • Mitre Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Framework; John Kreger Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Framework; John Kreger Quoted

    Mitre has collaborated with the Food and Drug Administration to create a guide for health care delivery organizations to prepare for and respond to security breaches involving medical technology platforms. The Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook is designed to help HDOs, such as hospitals, produce a framework that would cover device inventory and information […] More

  • Lauri Spencer Joins Analytica's Federal Health Mgmt Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lauri Spencer Joins Analytica’s Federal Health Mgmt Team

    Lauri Spencer, a two-decade health care information technology veteran, has joined Analytica as director of health programs at the Washington, D.C.-based consulting and IT services provider. She will support the company’s federal health division that offers project support services to customers such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the Defense Health Agency, Analytica said Thursday. […] More

  • Report: Booz Allen Hamilton Supports FDA Pilot Project for Healthcare Blockchain - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Booz Allen Hamilton Supports FDA Pilot Project for Healthcare Blockchain

    Booz Allen Hamilton has developed a platform to help the Food and Drug Administration‘s Office of Translational Sciences explore healthcare blockchain technology, GCN reported Friday. The platform is built on the InterPlanetary File System for encryption and reduced data duplication purposes, and uses Ethereum for data access management on private networks, the report said. Lauren Neal, a […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for 'Cloud First' Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Deploy Container-as-a-Service at FDA for ‘Cloud First’ Compliance

    A Koniag subsidiary has secured a five-year, $19 million contract to aid an office of the Food and Drug Administration in its initiatives to comply with the government’s Cloud First policy. Arlluk Technology Solutions will furnish FDA’s Office of Information Management and Technology with a cloud-based container-as-a-service platform to enable the Department of Health and Human Services agency […] More

  • Army Seeks Info on Manufacturing Processes for Cryopreserved Platelets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Info on Manufacturing Processes for Cryopreserved Platelets

    The U.S. Army is seeking information on current good manufacturing processes for a cryopreserved platelets product to aid the Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s endeavors to treat severe hemorrhage caused by combat trauma. USAMMDA seeks to develop medical products through collaborations with commercial partners in efforts to protect military combatants as part of the U.S. Combat Casualty […] More

  • 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

  • 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

  • QTS' David McOmber: Federal Gov't Cloud Adoption Focused on Hybrid Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS’ David McOmber: Federal Gov’t Cloud Adoption Focused on Hybrid Infrastructure

    Governments agencies have turned to hybrid cloud platforms in order to both take advantage of cloud capabilities and support legacy systems, QTS Realty Trust Executive Vice President Dave McOmber said in a Federal News Radio panel discussion posted Thursday. McOmber, who is in charge of public sector and federal sales at QTS, participated in the discussion with Bill […] More