Cerner CEO Brent Shafer
Cerner Corp. on Wednesday said its board is searching for a new chief executive officer, at which point company CEO Brent Shafer will step down from his post.
Shafer, who has served as Cerner s CEO for three years, will continue to serve as chairman and CEO until the board appoints a successor, after which he will serve as a senior advisor for one year. The board and I have started a process to identify Cerner s next CEO, Shafer said on a call with investment analysts Wednesday.
William Zollars, lead independent director of Cerner s board, in a statement thanked Shafer for his leadership at the company.
Booz Allen s $725M deal for Liberty seeks more Salesforce, transformation skills
Booz Allen Hamilton is making a $725 million acquisition to bolster its offerings around several critical modernization capabilities that include solutions architecture and services focused on so-called low code/no code offerings like Salesforce.
The firm s first deal since 2017 will see them acquire Liberty IT Solutions, which has focused primarily on health care-related opportunities and particularly at the Veterans Affairs Department. Data from USASpending.gov tags the VA as the source of 99 percent of Liberty’s prime contract obligations.
But the deal was driven more by the capabilities than a presence at any single customer, executives said in a Tuesday morning call with investors.
New CFO to start in July
By Ross Wilkers
May 04, 2021
The release of Leidos’ first quarter financial results on Tuesday morning coincided with Booz Allen Hamilton’s announcement that it agreed to acquire Liberty IT Solutions for $725 million and add more digital transformation services.
Pretty much all of Liberty’s work is in the Veterans Affairs Department and much of that focus is on opportunities related to health care, which Leidos touts as its highest-margin and fastest-growing area.
So what does Leidos make of the health market’s broad landscape in light of that deal and expected funding increases there? That was part of question number one to Leidos executives during their quarterly conference call with investors.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos of Moline says she won’t seek reelection next year in northwest and west central Illinois’ 17th Congressional District after narrowly fending off Republican Esther Joy King in last year’s contest. “I feel it’s time for a new voice,” she said in a video announcement. It also comes as the district is starting to lean more heavily Republican. Once a rising star .
Pat Nabong; Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times file
Just hours after the release of a scathing report on the state’s handling of a COVID-19 outbreak at an Illinois veterans’ home, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday he wouldn’t have hired the former director of veterans’ affairs had he known she would “abdicate” her responsibilities.
That was essentially the description of former veterans’ affairs chief Linda Chapa LaVia’s handling of the coronavirus crisis in the report from the inspector general of the Illinois Department of Human Services at the LaSalle Veterans Home, where 36 veterans have died of COVID-19.
Several witnesses told the inspector general that LaVia was “not a hands-on or engaged day-to-day Director,” leaving the management of the agency and the veterans homes themselves to her chief of staff.