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Leveraging experience leading strategic vision and modernization efforts on a portfolio of web products as part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Digital Services, the VA has tapped this rising leader as Senior Director of the Digital Service.  

Yesterday we pointed to news that this leading Healthcare technology platform had announced its intent to acquire this small business health information technology and policy company. Today we share a little on who is involved and what this means for those who may be curious.

Beating out five other bidders, this provider of mission-enabling solutions and technologies within the health market builds on prior experience supporting efforts at CMS related to a primary component of the Medicare claims processing function under Medicare Part B, with the award of a new 5-year contract to support the claims processing system used to process Medicare Part A claims.

Here we follow the protests related to this 5-year Department of Veterans Affairs requirement intended to provide development, testing, integration, architecture, and all ongoing planned and unplanned O&M support to include predictive, preventative, corrective, and evolutionary through a cycle of Continuous Integration for this portfolio composed of 11 product lines within three sub-portfolios.

Looking to leverage this leader’s decades of security experience from Federal service, including responsibility for Systems Security and Privacy over VA’s 5 National Data Centers and industry experience focused on business development, pursuit and capture, and corporate support functions, this SDVO T4NG Prime consultancy, with capabilities in Application Engineering, Consulting, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Mobility support, adds a new Executive Cybersecurity Strategist.

After nearly 20 years at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), this Senior Technical Advisor, who served as CMS's recognized authority on risk adjustment methodologies for clinical performance outcome measurement used in the CMS public reporting Hospital Compare site and programs that provide payment incentives to providers for quality and performance has retired from Federal service and is open to work.

Beating out two other bidders, this large Federal health player has been awarded a 5-year biomedical research application, evaluation support services contract with the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity.

Looking to leverage this leader’s more than a decade in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs to include recent responsibility for building VA’s Cybersecurity Operations Center and the continuation to mature its capabilities through the use of real time data, orchestration and automation, this SDVOSB, with capabilities in cybersecurity, digital solutions and infrastructure modernization adds a new VP for cybersecurity.

This 8(a) small business focused on research and development, and with an established presence at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been awarded a four-year, $19M contract by the CDC for program and staff support.

A protest has been levied related to this Defense Health Agency requirement for services supporting DHA Medical Affairs and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Health Services and Policy Oversight (HSP&O) in their missions of policy and program development and oversight of the Disability Evaluation System (DES), the Special Compensation for Assistance with Activities of Daily Living (SCAADL), the Physical Disability Board of Review, and the Compensation and Benefits Handbook.