PPD wins five-year Pentagon contract worth up to $44.5M

WILMINGTON, N.C. – PPD (Nasdaq: PPDI) has won a five-year contract worth as much as $44.5 million to provide a variety of services to the U.S. Army.

The Wilmington-based company said it will work with the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity: Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Support.

PPD will provide regulatory and biostatistical services for a number of clinical development programs.

“This contract enables us to deliver on our breadth of global regulatory and biostatistics services and assist the U.S. Army in advancing clinical programs that improve the health of men and women serving in our armed forces,” said Henrietta Ukwu, M.D., senior vice president of global regulatory affairs for PPD, in a statement. “We are pleased to partner with the U.S. Army in this effort and to continue to extend our long history of partnering with the U.S. Government on clinical research and development.”
PPD has worked with federal agencies on a variety of projects for more than two decades.

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