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ECS Federal wins $96M award to support health research funding agency

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency has named ECS Federal as the prime contractor on a four-year, $96 million contract to provide support services, the Fairfax County IT business announced Tuesday.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) was created in 2022 to improve the government’s ability to quickly develop biomedical and health solutions.

Under the contract, ECS will provide programmatic support services, including thought leadership in areas like biotechnology and regenerative medicine, to two ARPA-H mission offices: Health Science Futures (HSF), which works to eradicate limitations that stymie progress with health developments, and Scalable Solutions (SSO), which tackles challenges to developing health solutions like geography and economies of scale.

“We are excited to provide foundational support to HSF and SSO, help drive health care system innovation, and act as a health transformation agent,” John Heneghan, president of ECS, said in a statement.

Additionally, ECS will help HSF and SSO address scalability challenges with access to health care and equity, as well as the global supply chain. The company, a subsidiary of Glen Allen-based Fortune 1000 IT and professional staffing services firm ASGN, will also provide strategic planning and advisory support services, including program and financial management.

In March, ECS, which has about 4,000 employees, announced it was one of five companies awarded a potential $500 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity Strategic Technical ARPA-H Talent Support Contract vehicle.

ASGN reported revenue of $4.45 billion in fiscal year 2023.

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN HENEGHAN

A former English teacher who went into tech in the 21st century, Heneghan has led ASGN’s federal consulting subsidiary since 2022. He previously was the company’s chief operating officer, and Heneghan held executive roles at Stanley Associates and CGI Federal. ECS expanded last fall with ASGN’s acquisition of cybersecurity business Iron Vine Security for an undisclosed amount.

In its fiscal 2022 earnings report, ASGN attributed $1.14 billion of its total $4.58 billion revenue to its federal government segment, an increase of 5.8% from 2021.

In September 2022, ECS was awarded a $429.5 million Army Network Enterprise Technology contract. The company also has performed work for Project Maven, an AI task force at the Pentagon that uses imagery, data and video from drones and satellites for surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance work. ECS has had three contracts on the project, worth $364 million, since 2017. In 2018, Google quit Project Maven after workers protested what they called the weaponization of AI.  Heneghan said in a WashingtonExec interview in April that AI has helped Ukrainian fighters, and he foresees that the technology will be used in emergency preparedness and open-source intelligence missions.