KPMG and Ernst & Young have won separate five-year contracts worth $322.2 combined to help the Department of Defense's inspector general office audit financial statements. KPMG received a $224M contract to perform audit work for U.S. Army on a labor-hour basis and EY secured $98.1M to do a similar task for the Defense Logistics Agency, DoD said Thursday.

Tim Gillis, managing partner of the Washington metro area offices at KPMG, has been named by the American Heart Association as chair of the 2020 Greater Washington Region Heart Walk. The Heart Walk is an annual noncompetitive event that promotes physical activity through a one- or three-mile walk, helps raise funds for health initiatives and celebrates the lives of heart and stroke survivors, AHA said Thursday.

KPMG has been selected by the Defense Information Systems Agency under an Other Transaction Authority  contract to help develop a prototype solution for consolidating user accounts and managing access to agency systems, the company announced on Wednesday.

Joe Klimavicz, formerly chief information officer of the Department of Justice, has joined KPMG as a managing director, FedScoop reported Thursday. He will advise federal agencies on cybersecurity and cloud migration in his new role at KPMG.

The General Services Administration has awarded KPMG a spot on a potential $127M blanket purchase agreement to help the Department of Housing and Urban Development update an information technology platform used to process mortgage loans.

  Deloitte‘s consulting business and KPMG‘s federal services arm have secured positions on a potential five-year, $980 million contract to support financial improvement and audit readiness across the Department of the Navy. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a one-year base ordering period that will run through November 2018 and four 12-month …

William Thomas, chairman of the Americas region at KPMG and a 28-year company veteran, has been named chairman of KPMG International in a move that takes effect Oct. 1. He will succeed the retiring John Veihmeyer and oversee the company’s network of professional services firms for four years, KPMG said Thursday. Veihmeyer …

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a potential $60.6 million blanket purchase agreement to KPMG and a separate $32.6 million BPA to St. Michael’s for financial stewardship and sustainment support services to DLA. Each firm-fixed-price BPA contains one base year plus four option years and the contracts have a total combined ceiling of $93.2 million, the Defense …

KPMG has acquired tax analysis and compliance technology assets and related intellectual property rights from G2 FinTech in a push to help clients in the investment management sector to comply with U.S. tax regulations. The deal gives KPMG access to G2’s flagship platform TaxGopher and a majority of development professionals at …

KPMG LLP has closed its purchase of Beacon Partners to add clinical management and technology consulting offerings to KPMG’s healthcare advisory services portfolio. “We seek to provide our clients with additional expertise in electronic health records implementation and optimization services, ” Liam Walsh, KPMG’s U.S. advisory industry leader for the …