Companies

Growth, tech and operations leadership moves across the market

Our newest listing of key appointments across the market also includes a board of directors role for a longtime intelligence community leader.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Companies

Industry layoffs mount as cancelled contracts and DOGE efforts take hold

Just shy of 2,500 workers in Maryland and Virginia are poised to lose their jobs as 13 companies issue mass layoff notice.

  • By Nick Wakeman
Companies

Abt Associates, Edgewater hire new growth chiefs

These two companies bring in new leaders for their business development, capture and proposal functions.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Contracts

How an administration change drove EPA to cancel research contract

The Environmental Protection Agency believed the solicitation focused on climate change efforts no longer met its needs under the Biden administration and that move got backing in a bid protest decision.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Abt Associates nabs $48.6M contract to improve competitiveness for West African businesses

Abt Associates has won a $48.6 million contract with USAID to increase regional trade competitiveness in West Africa, improve food security and reduce poverty under USAID’s Trade Hub Network.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates taps new principal associate

Abt Associates has named Julie Strawn, a principal associate. She, where she will facilitate research and communication with policymakers across workforce and education arenas and contribute to the company’s work in career pathways research and technical assistance.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates wins $10M contract to conduct survey on sexual violence

Abt Associates has won a $10 million contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a national and state level survey on the magnitude and characteristics of sexual violence, stalking and intimate partner violence.

  • By Mark Hoover

PSC elects new leadership for 2014

With seven female elections, the Professional Services Council sees its highest concentration of female leadership in 2014 and names ICF's Ellen Glover its first ever female chair.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates taps new VP of Health Division

Abt Associates has named Christopher Spera vice president of the company’s U.S. health division, where he will oversee the company’s behavioral health, health policy and public health and epidemiology practices.

  • By Mark Hoover

How collaboration, making an impact drive Abt’s Kathleen Flanagan

Kathleen Flanagan of Abt Associates explains how collaboration and making an impact drives both her and her employees and helped her win an executive of the year award at the 11th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards gala.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates wins $3M contract to manage criminal statistics

Abt Associates has won a $3 million contract to make criminal statistics from five different agencies more accessible and credible.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates takes $27.6M contract to support EPA water office

Abt Associates has won a $27.6 million contract with the Environmental Protection Agency to support its Office of Water by looking at the impact of regulations and conducting benefits analysis.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates wins another contract with CMS

Abt Associates has won a $2.9 million contract with CMS to develop structural changes to Medicare’s Home Health Prospective Payment System.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates tap to evaluate innovative CMS programs

Abt Associates has won a contract with the CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovations to evaluate whether programs will help patients receive better patient care at a lower cost under the Affordable Care Act.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates names new leader of research and data collection arm

Abt Associates has promoted Scott Royal to president and CEO of its survey research and data collection arm, Abt SRBI.

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates acquires health and development firm

Abt Associates will expand its international health and development expertise and presence through its acquisition of JTA International

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt Associates hires new VP of human resources

Abt Associates has named John Ruyter vice president of human resources, where he will help lead Abt Associates’ company-wide human resources strategy and operations

  • By Mark Hoover

Abt to investigate education strategies

Abt Associates will collaborate with companies and development centers as it investigates the effectiveness of strategies designed to increase the number of diadvantaged students who enroll and complete college.

  • By Mark Hoover

Top 100 firm wins $107.8M contract for watershed protection

Abt Associates will provide technical support services to EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds to protect the condition of watersheds nationwide.

  • By Mark Hoover

ABT tasked with bolstering CMS' clinical care measurements

Research firm ABT Associates has received a three-year, $13 million award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve the way the quality of clinical care in the U.S. is measured.

  • By David Hubler
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