A partnership between Deloitte and Irving Burton Associates has received a four-year, $101M contract to help the Defense Health Agency manage operational efficiency during the transition to a new electronic health records system for military service members, veterans and their families.

Vivien Bonazzi, a more than two-decade bioinformatics veteran and former senior adviser at the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed a managing director within Deloitte's government and public services practice.

John Hooley, a more than 18-year government services industry veteran, has joined The MIL Corp.'s federal business as vice president of financial services, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday.

Deloitte has won a potential five-year, $197.3M contract to provide technical, administrative and operational support for products and project lines under the Defense Health Agency’s solutions delivery division. The company will help DHA SDD manage information assurance, configuration management and training functions for various platforms such as the Defense Medical Logistics Support System, Essentris and Clinical Data Repository, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

A new Deloitte report has identified challenges U.S. defense contractors and suppliers face when it comes to complying with cybersecurity regulations and measures that could be implemented by companies to adhere to such regulations and build up a cyber-resilient security posture.

Deborah Golden, a principal with Deloitte & Touche, has been named head of the U.S. cyber practice within the company’s risk and financial advisory business.

Mike Canning, a principal with Deloitte Consulting, has been named head of the company’s government and public services practice. He succeeds Dan Helfrich, who assumed this month the role of chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting, and will oversee a 15K-person team delivering consulting, financial and risk advisory services to federal and state government agencies, higher education and nonprofit organizations.

Maria-Paz Barrientos, formerly a vice president and partner at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been appointed managing director of federal health at Deloitte, G2Xchange Health reported Tuesday. She assumed her new role after a 17-year career at IBM and with more than two decades of experience in enterprise-wide transformation efforts and …

Deloitte US has appointed three executives to new leadership positions, effective June 2. Lara Abrash, deputy CEO of Deloitte’s U.S. audit and assurance practice, will transition to the role of chair and CEO of Deloitte & Touche and succeed Joe Ucuzoglu, who will serve as CEO of Deloitte US starting June, …

Phong Huynh and Raj Yanambakkam of Deloitte have said platform as a service could help government agencies attract and retain employees and advance innovation when it comes to customer engagement. Huynh and Yanambakkam wrote that PaaS works to accelerate transformation by allowing agency employees to focus on citizens and relieving …