The departments of Defense and Health and Human Services have coordinated to execute contract actions worth $226.3 million combined to help four companies increase domestic production capacity for COVID-19 antibody tests and nitrile gloves. DOD said Friday its Defense Assisted Acquisition Cell organization led the contracting process while the HHS O...
Battelle, Clinical Enterprise and PerkinElmer Health Sciences have received contracts worth potentially $650 million combined to help the U.S. government ramp up COVID-19 testing efforts nationwide. The Department of Defense said Wednesday it issued the awards under a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to deploy test kits a...
Gainwell Technologies, a Veritas Capital portfolio company offering health and human services, has completed the acquisition of Irving, Texas-based health care technology provider HMS Holdings for approximately $3.4 billion in cash, or $37 per share. Veritas looks to optimize HMS’ product suite across Gainwell and private equity-backed health ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Jennifer Chronis, federal vice president of Verizon, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transformation across the government contracting (GovCon) sector. This marks Chronis’ first Wash100 Aw...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce that Stacy Cummings, acting undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense (DOD), has been awarded a 2021 Wash100 Award for driving modernization across acquisition, as well as implementing digital transformation initiatives to support the federal sector and its industry counterpar...
The Biden administration is supporting collaboration between Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and Merck (NYSE: MRK) to produce more COVID-19 vaccine doses through the Defense Production Act. At the White House’s request, the Department of Health and Human Services has earmarked $105 million in initial funds to help Merck (NYSE: MRK) expand co...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to introduce Bruce Caswell, president and CEO of Maximus, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for his responsible stewardship as the company sought to position itself as a leading health and human services provider for public sector agencies responding to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Caswell has received a Was...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, will proudly present the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and prominent award in all of GovCon, to the 100 distinguished executives who have demonstrated excellence in leadership, innovation, ...
President Joe Biden has ordered federal agencies to work with the government’s COVID-19 response coordinator in efforts to collect, publish and share pandemic-related data and address disinformation or misinformation campaigns regarding the public health crisis. The executive order calls for the modernization of infrastructure that can support...
Moderna has received a six-month, $1.97B contract modification from the U.S. Army to manufacture 100M more doses of the company's messenger RNA vaccine against the novel coronavirus....
