As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly identified more contagious Omicron variant is posing new challenges for the U.S. health care system and the nation’s pandemic preparedness and response capabilities. Now, the federal government aims to leverage commercial partnerships, more robust funding, adapted legislati...
Carahsoft Technology was awarded a five-year, $100 million blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services for Salesforce licenses in support of HHS organizations looking to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency through cloud-based implementations, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday. The contractor was the s...
The General Services Administration has introduced an updated online platform that offers key resources for existing and prospective contractors under the Multiple Award Schedule program. The redesigned Vendor Support Center is now searchable and features a new page called the MAS Project Center and three types of locators for the Procurement Contra...
Carlos Rivero, former chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia, has been appointed vice president of data and analytics at Columbia, Maryland-based technology provider GCOM. He comes to the company with more than 25 years of technology experience as it looks to expand in the data and analytics services market, GCOM said Thursday. Rivero...
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to block the White House’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirement for large private businesses but allowed the Biden administration to implement a vaccine mandate for over 10 million health care workers whose facilities take part in Medicare and Medicaid programs, The Wall Street Journal reported. Th...
Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has secured a spot on the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule that allows the company to compete for task orders in two categories under the 20-year governmentwide indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Wednesday it is now eligible to provide facilities support and professiona...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has won a potential five-year, $514 million task order to modernize outside plant infrastructure and facilities that support data communication networks at 40 U.S. Army installations nationwide. The single-award task order covers the development and installation of an underground fiber optic cable platform intended to...
Ron Bewtra, an 18-year federal information technology veteran, has joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NSYE: HPE) to serve as director of high-performance computing. He wrote Tuesday in a LinkedIn post that he will manage offerings within HPE’s leadership computing vertical segment. Before he rejoined industry, Bewtra was chief technology offic...
The federal subsidiary of CGI (NYSE: GIB) has secured a $250 million blanket purchase agreement to help the Justice Department operate and maintain an integrated technology platform for managing financial and procurement functions, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. CGI Federal received DOJ’s Unified Financial Management System support contrac...
Melissa Hathaway, a thought leader in the fields of digital risk management and cybersecurity, has been added to the list of featured speakers for an upcoming virtual event, hosted by Executive Mosaic’s Potomac Officers Club, that will explore the national security aspect of cryptocurrency. She will serve on a panel during POC’s “Digit...
