A focus on customer experience, or CX, has run parallel to the push for digital modernization in the private sector for many years. New tools and products can’t be platformed unless they promote easy access and navigability for users. The same is true for the public sector, where officials are establishing task forces and cohorts...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $99 million blanket purchase agreement to provide technical platforms and advisory support under the Geospatial Research, Analysis and Services Program. DRT Strategies, Innovative Computing & Applied Technology, Inoventures, General Dyn...
Due to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare space has been pummeled over the last few years to answer the manifold and ever-growing needs of citizens. Many of these needs have solutions that can only be resolved through agencies’ information technology systems. “For us, during COVID, it was really about, how quickly can...
MicroTech, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, will help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention manage telecommunications infrastructure under a $78 million award. The CDC Office of the Chief Information Officer and Digital Service Office will receive managed services through the contract, the company said Tuesday. Services will...
John Auerbach, formerly a director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has joined ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) as senior vice president for the company’s federal health segment. He will provide guidance to the ICF management team on health business opportunities in the federal government, the consulting and technology services provider sa...
Abt Associates will lead a team of commercial, academic and nonprofit organizations to carry out an $809 million project for the United States Agency for International Development under the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative. The team received a five-year contract to help USAID conduct indoor residual spray campaigns, distribute insecticide-t...
A Planned Systems International subsidiary has secured a potential $75 million blanket purchase agreement to support an organization under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that conducts worker safety and health research. Advanced Technologies and Laboratories International will provide engineering and scientific support, technician sup...
Joe Durbin, a seven-year senior program director at CSRA, which is now part of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was elevated to the role of account director at GD’s information technology business where he will be responsible for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-focused business activities. According to his LinkedIn profile, the CDC acco...
Dr. William Kassler, a clinical and public health professional, has joined Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) as the company’s first U.S. government chief medical officer. He will oversee Palantir’s life sciences and public health teams across the company’s U.S. government and international business, Palantir said Monday. Shyam Sankar, chief o...
A Maximus (NYSE: MMS) business unit has been awarded a potential $951 million contract to support a national hotline program for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, according to a General Services Administration award notice posted on SAM.gov. GSA issued the sole-source contract to Maximus Federa...
