Navy Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, supply chain task force lead at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), will serve as a keynote speaker at Potomac Officers Club’s Supply Chain Resilience and COVID-19 Virtual Event on Thursday, June 11th. ...
A report by George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting says federal agencies have been using rapid contracting procedures to speed up contract awards in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Agencies are using Federal Supply Schedules as one of the contract flexibilities under the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Government-wide co...
The Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth $133M combined to 3M (NYSE: MMM), O&M Halyward and Honeywell (NYSE: HON) to increase local production of N95 masks by over 39M in the next three months as part of the Defense Production Act Title 3 COVID-19 project....
The National Institutes of Health and three other U.S. health agencies have teamed up with the Foundation for the NIH, European Medicines Agency and 16 biopharmaceutical companies to speed up the development of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines partnership will work to streamline c...
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has awarded Moderna a potential $483M contract to further develop a vaccine against to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2....
The Professional Services Council (PSC) has released its comments on the Department of Defense (DoD) and General Service Administration’s (GSA) actions to accelerate payments to government small business primes and small business subcontractors, the organization announced on Thursday. ...
The Defense Logistics Agency has ordered 60 mask decontamination units from Battelle through the award of a potential $415M contract on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services. Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement released Monday the nonprofit company will provide systems designed to sanitize up ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce James Geurts, assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition at the U.S. Navy, as the newest inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for driving the military service’s approaches to acquire technology and innovate with industry. This marks the first Wash100 Award win for Geurts....
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI Information Systems, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for focusing on improving artificial intelligence and information technology capabilities and growing NCI’s revenue and influence in the government contracting (GovCon) sector. ...
Chitra Raghu, a former executive at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been appointed director of the federal health and safety division at ECS, G2XChange ETC reported Tuesday....
