The Department of Health and Human Services is back in the market for a chief information officer.
Karl Mathias, the lead technology executive at HHS since March 2022, is leaving to take a new role at NASA.
Karl Mathias is taking a new job at NASA after spending the last 20 months as the HHS CIO.
In an email to staff, obtained by Federal News Network, Mathias said his last day at HHS will be Dec. 1.
“It has been my honor to serve as your leader for the past 20 months. In that time, we have made great strides: We’ve established a strategic direction for our cybersecurity posture within HHS, strengthened our cybersecurity partnership with the nation’s healthcare providers, created a strong strategy for how we manage our data, enhanced our operational posture by reducing average wait times on the service desk to less than 60 seconds, dropped our aged ticket queue by nearly 92%, fielded systems that ensured the safety of unaccompanied minors at the southern border, and carefully evaluated acquisition packages worth billions of dollars to ensure proper use of information technology,” Mathias wrote. “These are only a tiny snapshot of the many accomplishments we’ve achieved since my arrival. I stand in awe of your dedication and professionalism.”
Mathias didn’t specifically say what his new role will be at NASA, just one that “brings me close to a mission I love and allows me to get back into the engineering realm.”
Source: HHS CIO Mathias moving to engineering role at NASA – Federal News Network; By Jason Miller, November 14th, 2023.
