“Mark Junda is a 16-year veteran in contracting at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He started his career at the Army Communications and Electronics Command in New Jersey, where he came right out of college, but when the command was BRAC’ed to Washington shortly after he arrived, he moved to a VA posting nearby. In his most-recent job at the VA, Junda was a division director working on IT contracting. So he’s a career fed…”
“In October 2020, Junda left the VA to take a two-year stint in the U.S. Digital Service, working virtually from New Jersey…”
“Junda acts as an advisor to IT program teams working on awarding digital contracts. Each team also includes a mainstream contracting officer doing the technical contracting work; he is more of a strategic advisor to the IT team.”
“Some of the contracting officers with whom he works have had experience awarding digital services contracts, for other the work is new. So he is interacting with IT folks much more than he did in his old job. He has been spending most of his time working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of Personnel Management — for the former working on the award of a big digital services BPA including agile and user experience. For that CMS contract, Junda will implement some of the innovative techniques he’s used in the past at VA…” Read the full article here.
Source: A career fed does a stint at USDS – By Steve Kelman, March 23, 2021. FCW.
