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The Army announced Nov. 20 that Omnicom’s DDB Chicago has won the $4B ten-year marketing and advertising program that had been at Interpublic for a dozen years.
The US Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Knox, KY, is the contracting agent.
Work locations and funding levels are to be determined.
The Interpublic team, which was led by McCann Worldgroup and included Weber Shandwick, was eliminated from the pitch due to a technical issue.
FleishmanHillard is part of the winning DDB team.
WPP also pitched.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, will exit at the end of the month. Ben LaBolt, a longtime Biden adviser, will take the CD post.
Cathy Cochran, senior VP in Teneo’s Washington office, has rejoined the US Dept of Agriculture as director in its communications office.
Mexico is working with the DC-based Global Action on Gun Violence to push for “impactful gun violence prevention strategies” in the US.
Douglas Farrar, who was VP-communications and strategy at the Carnegie Center for International Peace, has joined the Federal Trade Commission as PA director.
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