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Bridget Gauer, former director of the National Institutes of Health’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, has joined IT consulting firm Cognosante as senior vice president of strategy.

More than 200 small businesses have won spots during the on-ramp process for the National Institutes of Health's potential $20B governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services.

The General Services Administration and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, have partnered in a strategic agreement to modernize NICHD information technology operations, the GSA announced on Monday.

The National Institutes of Health has launched a new initiative to accelerate the development and commercialization of testing technologies for the new coronavirus. The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics program will use $1.5B in federal stimulus funds to invest in efforts that work on new COVID-19 testing technologies, NIH said Thursday.

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 clinical trials, coordinate regulatory processes and use assets to accelerate response to the coronavirus pandemic and other future health emergencies, NIH said Friday.

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center issued a draft solicitation in late March for a potential 15-year, $40B follow-on IT support governmentwide acquisition contract, Bloomberg Government reported Friday.

The White House has asked Congress for $45.8B in additional funding for fiscal year 2020 and authorities to facilitate ongoing coronavirus preparedness and response efforts. Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a Wednesday letter to Congress that the Trump administration wants to amend its FY 2021 requested budget to increase the funding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to $8.3B.

BAE Systems Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $188.2M contract to help a U.S. Navy organization engineer, integrate and test certain systems aboard surface combatant ships. The company said Monday it will support the service branch's Aegis Technical Representative organization in engineering, integration and test work on weapons and combat systems.

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.

TurningPoint Global Solutions has won a potential five-year, $99.9M contract to consolidate mobile services and devices for the National Institutes of Health, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.