The Department of Veterans Affairs has revised its electronic health record system modernization contract with Oracle Cerner a month after VA halted deployments of the EHR system as part of a program reset, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. In April, VA reset the program in a move to address EHR-related issues that were identified at five...
Veritas Capital CEO and Managing Partner Ramzi Musallam was bestowed his 2023 Wash100 Award plaque by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Veritas’ New York City headquarters. Musallam has been recognized for eight consecutive years by EM’s organizational leadership for his unstinting vision, innovation and reliabilit...
Paul Burnette, vice president and director of the Software Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the federal government should work with industry and adopt the SecDevOps approach to develop and deploy “hardened, optimal code” and ensure the security of critical systems. He wrote that SecDevOps could provide organizations the ability to rapidl...
Through its purchase of iDoxSolutions Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology and management consulting company, B&A will provide federal, state and local government customers with more advanced IT offerings. iDox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the McLean, Virginia-headquartered IT services company. Founded in 2000, iDo...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw higher revenue from domestic and international government operations in the first quarter of 2023 on the back of significant contract wins during the three-month period. The data analytics technology provider saw its overall January-March government sales jump 20 percent year over year to $289 million, ac...
Defense and aerospace components maker Heico (NYSE: HEI) has agreed to acquire Wencor Group from the latter’s management and private equity firm Warburg Pincus in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.05 billion. Heico said Monday it will pay $1.9 billion in cash and $150 million in Class A common stock for the Peachtree City, Georgia-headquarter...
The General Services Administration has named 14 representatives from public and private sectors as inaugural members of a federal panel that will advise and offer recommendations to the GSA administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s board and agencies with regard to the secure adoption of cloud computing products a...
The U.S. Army has given industry a preview of a potential 10-year contract to provide development and deployment support and lifecycle services for aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors and integrated systems. A presolicitation notice published Friday states that the proposed Development, Integration, Acquisition, Bridging to ...
The federal government relies on healthcare services to fulfill various missions for the nation. Get to know the top healthcare and medical government contractors in 2023. Every year, the federal government allocates a significant portion of its budget to health care, aiming to obtain high-quality pharmaceuticals, therapies, and preven...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson delivered the 2023 Wash100 Award to Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, during his recent visit to the latter’s company offices. This is the sixth consecutive year that Gilliland was awarded the Wash100, which annually recognizes the top 100 key public and private sector...
