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  • 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

  • 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

  • IBM, FDA Partner to Explore Secure Health Data Exchange Through Blockchain Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, FDA Partner to Explore Secure Health Data Exchange Through Blockchain Tech

    IBM‘s Watson Health unit and the Food and Drug Administration have entered into a two-year research agreement to study the use of blockchain technology to facilitate a secure exchange of health data. The company said Wednesday the partnership will initially focus on oncology-related information and look into the exchange of owner-mediated data from sources such as electronic medical records, clinical […] More

  • Aptinyx Receives NIH Grants for Neurologic Disorders Treatment R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptinyx Receives NIH Grants for Neurologic Disorders Treatment R&D

    Aptinyx has received three grants worth potentially $2.85 million from the National Institutes of Health to research and develop new therapeutic compounds for neuropathic pain and age-related cognitive decline. The NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded Aptinyx a one-year, $1.25 million grant to fund the development of compounds for neuropathic pain treatment, the biopharmaceutical company said Thursday. […] More

  • Triple-i to Help Analyze, Manage Datasets for FDA Transparency Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triple-i to Help Analyze, Manage Datasets for FDA Transparency Initiative

    Information Innovators Inc. has received a five-year, $28 million blanket purchase agreement to provide operations and maintenance services for the Food and Drug Administration‘s Dashboards and Analytics program. Triple-i said Monday it will support O&M, development and modernization efforts aimed  to help FDA centers meet the objectives of the agency’s transparency initiatives. The company will develop public and internal facing […] More

  • Aethlon Medical Completes Milestones Under DARPA Therapeutics Contract; Jim Joyce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aethlon Medical Completes Milestones Under DARPA Therapeutics Contract; Jim Joyce Comments

    An Aethlon Medical-developed medical device designed to eliminate viral pathogens from the circulatory system of infected patients has passed a milestone validation on its capacity to capture the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. Aethlon said Thursday it has completed multiple milestones under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract such as the Hemopurifier stage and 29 other checkpoints […] More

  • BrainScope Gets FDA Approval for Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Tech; Michael Singer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BrainScope Gets FDA Approval for Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Tech; Michael Singer Comments

    BrainScope has received marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a medical device the neurotechnology company designed to help clinicians examine traumatic brain injury cases. Bethesda, Maryland-based BrainScope said Monday it developed the Ahead 300 multi-modal device in collaboration with the Defense Department. “FDA clearance of the Ahead 300 is a bellwether moment in our company’s […] More

  • Capricor Receives DoD Grant to Develop Therapeutic Exosome Production Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capricor Receives DoD Grant to Develop Therapeutic Exosome Production Process

    The Defense Department has awarded Capricor Therapeutics a $2.4 million grant to develop a process to produce cardiosphere-derived cell exosomes. Capricor said Monday it plans to file an investigational new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration in 2017 for the use of CAP-2003 to treat ocular graft-versus-host disease. “As we advance and expand our exosomes program, this grant […] More

  • HHS Raises Cytori Contract Option Value to Support Thermal Burn Treatment Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS Raises Cytori Contract Option Value to Support Thermal Burn Treatment Devt

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has amended a previously awarded contract option to Cytori Therapeutics to fund continued development and investigation of the company’s burn wound treatment. Cytori said Monday BARDA increased the option’s value by $2.5 million to approximately $16.6 million and supplemental funds from the amended contract will support activities necessary […] More