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  • InBios Receives HHS Funds for Zika Diagnostic Test Development; Nicole Lurie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InBios Receives HHS Funds for Zika Diagnostic Test Development; Nicole Lurie Comments

    InBios International has received a two-year, $5.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a blood screening technology intended to identify people infected with the Zika virus. HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will fund the serological test being developed by InBios with the goal to speed up […] More

  • ICF to Support CDC Communications Campaign for Opioid Abuse Risk Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF to Support CDC Communications Campaign for Opioid Abuse Risk Awareness

    ICF International has received a two-year, $4.8 million task order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in support of the agency’s communications campaign for opioid abuse risk awareness. The company said Thursday it will manage the development and placement of the campaign’s digital and social media advertisements, create social media […] More

  • Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP

    Salient CRGT has elevated John Edgar, former company vice president and chief strategist for information technology transformation, as a senior VP while Kevin Bahumian and Anuj Mathur have been promoted to the roles of vice president from their former directorial positions. The software development and technology services company said Thursday Edgar will continue to manage Salient’s innovation centers and provide leadership […] More

  • Qualtrics Achieves 'In-Process' Status in FedRAMP Compliance For Insight Collection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualtrics Achieves ‘In-Process’ Status in FedRAMP Compliance For Insight Collection Platform

    Qualtrics has achieved “in-process” status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based insight collection and analysis platform. The software company said Wednesday the Department of Health and Human Services sponsors its efforts to obtain compliance certification at the moderate level. Ryan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics, said the in-process status helps make the Insight Platform more accessible […] More

  • Federal Acquisition Vet Stephen Yuter Joins Red Team Consulting as Director of Capture Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal Acquisition Vet Stephen Yuter Joins Red Team Consulting as Director of Capture Strategy

    Stephen Yuter, formerly director of acquisition management and head of the contracting activity at the Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service, has joined Red Team Consulting as the director of capture strategy. Yuter will manage Red Team’s strategic capture projects and advise customers on the government contract evaluation process and on capture […] More

  • Munro Enterprises to Resell Skyline's Medical Fluid Disposal Tech in Federal Healthcare Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Munro Enterprises to Resell Skyline’s Medical Fluid Disposal Tech in Federal Healthcare Sector

    Munro Enterprises will market and distribute a Skyline Medical-built automated  fluid disposal system to government-run healthcare facilities under a reseller agreement. The deal gives Munro exclusive rights to offer Skyline’s Streamway medical technology to potential federal customers such as the departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs and Defense, Skyline Medical said Friday. Dave Johnson, chief operating officer of Skyline Medical, said […] More

  • HHS, FDA Vet Melissa Chapman Joins Triple-i as BD, Capture Unit VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS, FDA Vet Melissa Chapman Joins Triple-i as BD, Capture Unit VP

    Melissa Chapman, a former chief information officer and deputy assistant secretary from the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Springfield, Virginia-based information technology services company Information Innovators Inc. as new vice president of the business development and capture unit. Chapman joined the company in May and has since led its HHS market growth strategy through subject matter and technical […] More

  • CIADM Lands HHS Anthrax Vaccine Development Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CIADM Lands HHS Anthrax Vaccine Development Support Task Order

    The Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing has received an 18-month, $10.49 million task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to help the agency develop a second-generation anthrax vaccine. CIADM is located at Texas A&M University in College Station will support development of Altimmune‘s NasoShield anthrax vaccine candidate that is meant to be […] More

  • ICF Names HHS' Audie Atienza a Senior Fellow for Biomedical Informatics Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Names HHS’ Audie Atienza a Senior Fellow for Biomedical Informatics Team

    ICF International has appointed Audie Atienza as a senior fellow for its biomedical informatics team, where he will contribute to the company’s clinical research efforts focused on healthcare data analytics. ICF said Monday Atienza brings at least 15 years of behavioral science and health IT program leadership experience from the Department of Health and Human Services‘ National […] More

  • HHS to Hold Contract Writing System Industry Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS to Hold Contract Writing System Industry Day

    The Department of Health and Human Services plans to hold an industry day event on April 6 to examine and discuss commercial contract writing systems with companies. HHS and industry will jointly explore contract writing products focused on purchase requests, solicitations, awards, modifications, invoices and receipts during the event to be held at the National […] More

  • Battelle, DoD to Test Emergent BioSolutions Anti-Nerve Agent Delivery Platform; Adam Havey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, DoD to Test Emergent BioSolutions Anti-Nerve Agent Delivery Platform; Adam Havey Comments

    Battelle and the Defense Department have selected a ruggedized auto-injector developed by Emergent BioSolutions for testing and further development work as the military seeks to create a nerve agent antidote delivery platform. The Emergard platform works to inject a needle through a chemical protective gear, Emergent BioSolutions said Wednesday. Battelle and DoD will complete the […] More