SCAN v. CMS Lawsuit: Implications for Medicare Advantage Plans A recent lawsuit, SCAN v. CMS, challenges how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) calculated 2024 Star Ratings for Medicare Advantage plans. The court’s decision could have significant implications for plans nationwide. Key Points: SCAN argued that CMS misapplied its own regulations when calculating…

Armed with recent experience serving as Deputy Director and Senior Advisor at the U.S. DOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, providing policy direction for minority, women-owned, and small and disadvantaged business participation in the Department’s procurement and Federal financial assistance activities, this leader takes on a new role. Tyra Redus is now listed…

SNC will provide its SNC TRAX® software, hardware integration services, and engineering support for the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program as part the Palantir Technologies Inc. team. TITAN is a scalable, expeditionary intelligence ground station that supports multi-domain operations (MDO) as a key piece of the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain…

To support the growth of its Public Health Transformation team, Deloitte has acquired substantially all of the assets of End Point’s industry-leading disease surveillance business, CasePointer. This acquisition brings to Deloitte additional experienced and skilled software engineers, cloud developers, DevOps engineers, epidemiologists and former public health officials. End Point’s team is one of the premier…

We’re excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire data management company Tabular. With this acquisition, we are bringing together the original creators of Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation Delta Lake, the two leading open source lakehouse formats, with the shared goal of bringing format compatibility to the lakehouse so that organizations are no…

Tyto Athene, LLC (“Tyto”), a federal systems integrator of mission-focused digital transformation solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MindPoint Group (“MindPoint” or the “Company”), a premier provider of end-to-end managed cybersecurity services to leading U.S. federal agencies and organizations. Tyto is a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners (“Arlington”), a Washington, D.C.-area private investment…

This is an active RFI on GSA MAS Inherent to the EID mission is the management of the Technical Operations Center (TOC). The TOC is the central monitoring, coordinating, remediating, and reporting authority for critical incidents, maintenance, and outages for the USCIS Enterprise Architecture.  The TOC is located at the USCIS Enterprise Operations Center (EOC),…

ICA, a leader in federal health consulting, technology, and data science services, proudly announces Dr. Andrew Ritcheson as the new Vice President of Public Health Programs. With over two decades of expertise in the clinical research, healthcare, and advanced technology sectors, Dr. Ritcheson has a proven track record in delivering innovation, growth, and improved health…