Leidos Secures $327M NIH Contract for Agile Software Development Support; Liz Porter Quoted

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $326.5 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to provide agile software development and design support services for NIH’s eRA enterprisewide grants management system.

The Reston, Virginia-based company said Thursday the contract also covers support for other platforms of the NIH Office of Extramural Research.

According to Leidos, eRA is an end-to-end electronic platform that applicants and grantees use to submit applications, assess, close out, manage and track more than $40 billion in annual research and non-research grants at over 62,000 institutions across the world.

“As the largest grants management system in the world, eRA requires continuous modernization and maintenance to sustain the work of tens of thousands of researchers and institutions worldwide,” said Liz Porter, president of the health and civil sector at Leidos.

“Since 2008, Leidos has worked with NIH to enhance its modernization efforts, establishing it as a center of excellence in grants management and agile development across the federal government. We look forward to continuing to advance the agency’s mission of improving human health through innovative technology, innovation, and biomedical discoveries,” added Porter.

Under the contract, the company will use its mission software and expertise in artificial intelligence-assisted agile development to support the delivery of a secure grants management system to NIH, grantor agencies, recipients and applicants.

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