Lawmakers Call for $26B in Coronavirus Relief Funding to Support R&D Programs A bipartisan group of senators will seek $26 billion from the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief package to sustain research efforts and personnel in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the leaders announced on Monday. The office of Sen. Edward Markey, said th...
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...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has received a potential five-year, $147.4M contract to provide information technology support for the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases....
AECOM has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its management services business to affiliates of American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg for $2.4 billion, the company announced on Monday. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the company™s board of directors and is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approv...
Leidos agreed to purchase IMX Medical Management Services, a consulting firm that offers independent medical evaluation, case management and record review services to state and local government agencies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company expects to close the transaction in the third quarter, pending customary approv...
Anna Steinberg, a 17-year veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), joined AbleVets, a health information technology services contractor based in Chantilly, Va., as vice president of growth. Steinberg will bring two decades of experience in the federal health market to focus on AbleVets™ growth strategy through business development, market ex...
Weekly Roundup April 2 – April 6, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes DoD FY 2019 Budget & Wash100 Update Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO On March 23rd, President Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2019 which allocates $686.1 billion for the Department of Defense™s bud...
Margaret Anderson, formerly executive director at Washington-based FasterCures, has joined Deloitte Consulting LLP as a managing director for federal health practice. Deloitte said Monday Anderson will oversee the firm™s health outcome improvement efforts through the advancement of platforms and collaboration with stakeholders across feder...
November 21 – November 23, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Interest rates are all but certain to go up in December and one large defense contractor has seemingly gotten ahead of the game to make one more big buy before the Federal Reserve moves....
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has received a potential five-year, $116 million task order from the Justice Department to update and maintain information technology systems at seven DOJ offices and bureaus. DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs aims to help the sites use shared services, consolidate data and conduct electronic government ini...
