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Katrina Tuisamatatele, who spent 12 years at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ office of information and technology, has joined Halfaker and Associates as deputy executive vice president of health operations.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 20, 2020 — General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology unit will provide military records digitization services to the Department of Veterans Affairs under a potential five-year, $306M task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 2.

GovConWire Events will host the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Virtual Forum featuring keynote speaker Brian Barnes, associate administrator of the Office of Small Business Utilization at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), on October 20th. To register for the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum, as well as view future events, visit GovConWire Events.

Private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has made an investment in GovernmentCIO, a provider of technology and digital platforms to the federal health information technology services market, to support the latter’s organic growth initiatives and client base expansion efforts.

Departments and agencies across the federal government have pushed to increase opportunities for small businesses. Especially after the COVID-19, various Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), such as the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and the General Services Administration (GSA), have educated business owners on new resources and contracts. 

Mahir Jameel, a former Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) executive, has been named global chief architect at Herndon, Virginia-based health information technology provider B3 Group. He will also lead B3 Group's Salesforce practice and be responsible for developing its strategy to implement the cloud platform at the Department of Veterans Affairs' Digital Transformation Center, the company said Tuesday.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a potential 15-year, $722M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to six companies to provide wired telecommunications services to VA Medical Centers.

GovConWire Events will host the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Virtual Forum featuring keynote speaker Brian Barnes, Associate Administrator of the Office of Small Business Utilization with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), on October 20th. To register for the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum, as well as view future events, visit GovConWire Events.

Contract spending across civilian government agencies increased to $228B during fiscal year 2020, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. BGOV data shows the amount represents a 17 percent rise from approximately $194B in FY 2019.

In Aug. 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government exceeded its small business federal contracting goal. The federal government has awarded $132.9 billion in federal contracts to small businesses, increasing $12 billion from fiscal year 2019.  By law, 23 percent of government contracts must go to small businesses.