Shannon Dillon, a former information technology specialist and security program manager at the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as director of business development and she will be responsible for helping drive SAIC's HHS growth initiatives.
Read More »Ellume Secures $232M US Gov’t Contract for COVID-19 Test Kit Production
Ellume has been awarded a $231.8 million contract by the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services to supply the U.S. government with 8.5 million at-home tests for COVID-19. DOD said Monday the funds will help the company increase its production capacity for coronavirus diagnostic tests by 640,000 each day through December.
Read More »SAS Gets FDA Cloud-Based Analytics Tech Contract; Jim Goodnight Quoted
SAS has secured a potential $49.9M blanket purchase agreement to provide the Food and Drug Administration access to the company’s cloud-based artificial intelligence, analytic and data management platform. The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research will implement the SAS Viya platform in efforts to update drug regulatory processes, monitor …
Read More »Palantir to Help FDA Review, Approve Drugs Under Three-Year Contract
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a potential three-year, $44.4M contract from the Food and Drug Administration to provide software that could be used to analyze data associated with drug reviews and inspections, Bloomberg reported Monday.
Read More »Battelle President, CEO Lou Von Thaer Receives His Fifth Wash100 Award
Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, was presented with his 2020 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic for expanding the company’s revenue and influence in the government contracting (GovCon) sector through valuable contract awards, partnerships and important executive appointments. Executive Mosaic congratulates Battelle and Lou Von Thaer for his fifth Wash100 Award.
Read More »General Dynamics IT Unit Wins $78M HHS Program Support Order
General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won a potential five-year, $78M task order to help the Department of Health and Human Services manage the national child support program, G2Xchange Health reported Friday.
Read More »DoD, HHS Sign $375M Procurement Deal for Eli Lilly COVID-19 Drug
Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) has received a potential $375M contract from the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services to initially supply 300K doses of bamlanivimab, an investigational monoclonal antibody drug for COVID-19.
Read More »ICF to Modernize FDA IT Systems; Mark Lee Quoted
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has secured a potential five-year, $49M blanket purchase agreement with an initial $4M task order to help the Food and Drug Administration's enterprise shared service organization modernize and maintain information technology platforms.
Read More »Trump Admin Picks Abbott for $760M Rapid COVID-19 Test Delivery Contract
The Trump administration has awarded Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) a potential $760M contract to provide 150M rapid COVID-19 diagnostics tests.
Read More »HHS, DoD Ink $1.5B Deal With Moderna for COVID-19 Vaccine Production
The departments of Health and Human Services and Defense have signed a potential $1.5B agreement with Moderna to produce 100M doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate as part of the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed.
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