Posts from GovConDaily for 05/11/2016

CIADM Lands HHS Anthrax Vaccine Development Support Task Order

The Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing has received an 18-month, $10.49 million task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to help the agency develop a second-generation anthrax vaccine…

EPA Selects Abt for Chemical Pollution Economic Analysis, Modeling Services

The U.S. Environment Protection Agency has awarded Abt Associates a five-year, $17 million contract to perform economic analysis and computer modeling work in an effort to help the EPA study and aim to mitigate chemical pollution…

CBO Unveils Online Search Tool for Intergovernmental, Industry Mandates Under UMRA

The Congressional Budget Office has added an online search tool on its website for users to find intergovernmental and private sector mandates in bills and public laws that are identified under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act…

OPM, Excelsior Sign Agreement to Back Federal Employees’ Higher Education Pursuits; Beth Cobert Comments

Excelsior College has inked an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to assist more than 1 million federal employees along with respective spouses and domestic partners in their individual pursuits of higher education degrees…

Bernie Guerry: General Dynamics’ IT Unit Eyes Industrial Control Tech Security Market Entry

General Dynamics plans to offer a cyber monitoring service to industrial control system operators through the company’s information technology business unit as part of a push to expand into the ICS market…

LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments

LGS Innovations has been selected to develop optical communication terminals meant to facilitate communication between two micro-satellites of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in low-Earth orbit…

Exostar Integrates Seclore’s Digital Rights Management Tech Into Collaboration Platform

Exostar has integrated Seclore‘s Enterprise Digital Rights Management system into a collaboration platform that works to provide data protection for defense contractors to support compliance with the Defense Department‘s Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement provisions…

ImmixGroup’s Lloyd McCoy: DoD’s FY 2017 Budget Request Seeks to Deploy Commercial EHR System by 2022

Lloyd McCoy Jr., a market intelligence manager at immixGroup, has said the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2017 contains health information technology initiatives that would prioritize the deployment of a commercial electronic health record system…

White House Event Highlights Agencies’ Efforts to Help Build Resilient Communities

The White House on Tuesday hosted a conference to discuss new initiatives in the public and private sectors to integrate resilience concepts into commercial and residential building design, standards and codes…