
RER Solutions has secured a $300 million contract to help the Small Business Administration to determine small business loan recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. The CARES Act federal stimulus package includes $349 billion in loans for smaller companies impacted by the coronavirus crisis and its eco...
Richard Grenell, acting director of national intelligence, wrote a letter to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in response to the lawmaker’s question over his legal authority to reorganize the Office of the DNI and the National Counterterrorism Center, The Washington Times reported Tuesday....
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has announced senior leadership and organizational changes, effective May 1. The company said Tuesday the changes are part of efforts to streamline senior leadership responsibilities, advance cross-company integration, align enterprise services to today’s business conditions and prepare for the post-pandemic industry environment....
The General Services Administration has awarded Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) a potential five-year, $810M contract for rideshare and ride-hail services to federal government workers who require transportation to perform official duties, according to a GSA award notice posted Monday....
Steve Spano, regional vice president for public sector at Tableau, has said there are three misconceptions surrounding data analytics that government agencies should address and break down to leverage data as a strategic asset. One of the myths Spano debunked is that data reporting is hard. Spano wrote that agencies should shift from spreadsheet-cen...
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...
A federal judge decided to put on hold until Aug. 17 a lawsuit filed by Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) challenging the Department of Defense’s decision to award Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, Reuters reported Saturday....