The Department of Veterans Affairs has ceased upcoming deployments of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record system as part of a program reset aimed at addressing EHR-related issues that were identified at five VA health facilities during the “assess and address” period. VA said Friday it will resume EHR deployment activities once the system...
The Food and Drug Administration is looking for 8(a) small businesses capable of providing professional, administrative and consulting services to support the agency’s public health mission. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov stated that the FDA intends to award a competitive small business set-aside indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity cont...
David Cade, a 14-year Boeing (NYSE: BA) veteran who formerly served as vice president of corporate contracts, has assumed a new role as VP of supply chain core contracting within the company’s defense, space and security division, according to a LinkedIn post. He led the aerospace and defense company’s contracting work encompassing polic...
With only a week left in voting, there is officially no more time to procrastinate contributing to the 2023 Wash100 Award popular vote contest. When voting closes on Friday, April 28, submissions will be tabulated and the top 10 most beloved government contracting — and industry adjacent — executives will be decided. The Wash100 is a...
John “Jay” Raymond, a 38-year military veteran who formerly served as the U.S. Space Force’s chief of space operations, has joined the board of directors at Axiom Space. The retired general will serve as strategic adviser to Axiom’s leadership on space domain safety and security matters in addition to his board membership, th...
Engineering Solutions and Meadowgate Technologies have agreed to combine to establish a new entity focused on delivering hybrid information technology platforms and professional services to the national security community. Meadowgate CEO Tom Lash will lead the new company, which will provide technology consulting, systems engineering, product ...
The Defense Health Agency has upheld its decision to select TriWest Health Alliance as the new managed care services provider in the western U.S. region of the U.S. military’s Tricare program. DHA on Thursday asserted that TriWest won the $65.1 billion T-5 MCS contract, after the agency reviewed and dismissed a bid protest Health Net...
Mara Motherway, former senior vice president of government and customer relations at Peraton, has joined defense technology maker Epirus as chief growth officer. She will oversee corporate campaigns, marketing, business development, communications and government relations in her new role, Epirus said Thursday. While at Peraton, Motherway led the gov...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) logged total revenue of $205.3 million for the first quarter of 2023, up 22 percent year-over-year from $168.2 million and noted total billable subscribers for the January-March period reached 2.05 million. The satellite communications company said Thursday that about $139.3 million of Q1 revenue came from servi...
Thomas Bergeson, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, has been named president and chief operating officer of military training technology developer Red 6. “Tom and I have spent a lot of time together over the past few months as he gained insight into our technology and our vision,” Red 6 founder and CEO Daniel...
