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...
Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) has received a pair of firm-fixed-price contracts worth $2.73 billion combined from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to produce monoclonal antibody drugs for COVID-19. The first contract, valued at $2.52 billion over nine months, covers the supply of coronavirus treatment that combines two neutralizing antibodies, LY-C...
Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize PAE President and CEO John Heller as an inductee into the 2021 edition of the Wash100 for leading PAE’s transformation from a private equity-backed company into a publicly listed company and expansion in the government services arena through acquisitions and contract wins. This represents his sixth Wash100 ...
Carahsoft Technology has received a blanket purchase agreement under the Department of Defense’s Enterprise Software Initiative to provide government, defense and intelligence community customers with access to key software and information technology offerings. Carahsoft said Thursday the BPA comes as part of the company’s Federal Supply Sch...
Salient CRGT has secured a five-year, $105 million contract to help the U.S. Agency for International Development manage information technology portfolio, consolidate IT services, adopt cloud computing approaches, update networks and secure systems. The single-award USAID Strategic Programs contract covers support for the agency’s Office of th...
A nonprofit organization at Georgia Institute of Technology will continue to support applied research, development and engineering programs at the U.S. Air Force under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth potentially $998 million over 11 years. Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. will provide acquisition services for the Defense...
GeoOptics is set to begin providing commercial satellite data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in March for numerical weather prediction efforts after the company received its first delivery order from the agency. The company said Friday it will work to deliver 1,300 radio occultations to NOAA in real time each day using its...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to recognize Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, for her strong and notable leadership that helped the company secure IT modernization work with government customers. This represents Gilliland’s fourth consecutive Wash100 Award. In 2020, Gillilan...
The White House is working on an executive order that will direct a two-phase review of U.S. supply chains and domestic manufacturing to be led by members of President Joe Biden’s national security and economic teams, CNBC reported Thursday. The review will look into the “resiliency and capacity of the American manufacturing supply chains and...
A NASA rover that launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket in July 2020 has reached Mars. NASA said Friday the 2,263-pound Perseverance rover will go through weeks of testing before it kicks off its scientific investigation of the planet’s Jezero Crater for two years. Astrobiol...
