Keeping IT Brief: The Power Perspective

One of the many lessons learned during the pandemic was that the public, health care providers, and our government agencies were looking to IT systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and provide information needed to support decision-making. The increased need for information highlighted existing challenges impacting data sharing and data security.

Today we speak with Srini Iyer the Health Group CTO of Leidos on how achieving greater speed and effective information delivery through an enriched data exchange framework will permit greatly enhanced data sharing across clinicians, labs, hospitals, pharmacies, patient, the public, and government agencies at all levels. When disparate systems can work in tandem to share patient data seamlessly across all networks, within and across organizational boundaries, the health ecosystem from providers to officials are able to advance the effective delivery of healthcare and make informed decision for individuals and communities.

Srini Iyer serves as Chief Technology Officer for the Health Group at Leidos, where he is responsible for driving innovation and building new offerings to enhance the Health Group’s growing portfolio. Before joining Leidos, Srini served as Senior Vice President and Corporate Chief Technology Officer at ManTech International. He also served as Strategic Planning Manager for Northrop Grumman Technical Services. Iyer has a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia as well as a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Madras.


Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022. For more information, visit www.leidos.com

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Citizens often engage with health agencies during strenuous and pivotal moments in life. Today we speak with MaryAnn Monroe, VP of Total Experience at Maximus about how to provide the best experience. Agencies must be prepared to provide essential services and to quickly and securely obtain relevant data from various government partners at a moment’s notice.

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This podcast is based on an event dated June 7, 2023. If you missed this event, be sure and check out our list of upcoming events on Forum.

Today we are speaking to Susan Sharer, the CEO of Forum about the upcoming Innovation Awards taking place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This high-energy event includes a mix of keynote speakers, panel discussions, fireside chats, and rapid-fire talks featuring Federal Government leaders focused on agency priorities, challenges, and opportunities for growth.

Register for the event here. 

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Low code and no code development is growing in the Federal government, today we speak with   Sumesh Sundareswaran the Vice President for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Business Area at GDIT on his thoughts for the future of the technology.  

 Sumesh Sundareswaran is Vice President for the Health and Human Services (HHS) Business Area at GDIT. In this role, he supports the critical mission of HHS and the Social Security Administration (SSA).  He provides strategic thought leadership, employee engagement, execution, change management, business development, customer and technical oversight of the HHS portfolio. Sumesh is the recipient of the FedHealthIT 2022 and 2023 Awards. This award honors the top 100 individuals in federal Health IT, who make an impact, go above and beyond, drive innovation and positive outcomes, challenge conventional wisdom, and give back to the larger community.

General Dynamics Information Technology delivers the art of the possible to support the most complex government projects. GDIT is on the frontlines of health innovation, leading the way with the technology, health systems and science that drive better health. As one of the largest systems integrators for the federal government, our 30,000 employees in 30 countries worldwide provide technical expertise and mission critical support to ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

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Today we discuss impacts on the future of Health IT with Melinda Pitchford, Managing Director Business Development and Capture for Eleven09/King Street Technology Partners.

 Melinda Pitchford – Managing Director Business Development and Capture for Eleven09/King Street Technology Partners

Melinda Pitchford is a highly experienced professional with over 15 years of expertise in fostering strong client and B2B relationships, building top-tier teams, and ensuring a collaborative community effort towards helping Veterans. By leveraging her extensive market knowledge, as well as understanding her peers' offerings and clients' needs, Melinda's operationally-efficient teams consistently deliver high-quality, innovative, and sustainable solutions. Her outstanding work has been recognized by her peers and the industry, receiving the 2022 FedHealthIT Women's Impact Award and the 2023 FedHealthIT 100 Award.

Driven by her commitment to community and caring, Melinda co-founded and co-hosts the VA T4NG Networking Event, a platform where like-minded individuals come together to exchange ideas, identify growth opportunities, and foster innovation. Many of us have had the privilege of attending this event and experiencing its positive impact.

Eleven09

Eleven09 is a full-service provider of information technology and cyber security solutions. With a vast network of resources and partners, our team is capable of providing secure and comprehensive solutions to address even the most complex needs of our customers. Our motivation stems from our unwavering commitment to improving the lives of our nation's veterans and their families, ensuring positive and measurable outcomes from the first day of service through their transition to the Department of Veterans Affairs and beyond.
 
King Street Technology Partners, LLC (KSTP) is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that comprises Eleven09, LLC, and SBG Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DSS, Inc. Working together, KSTP is dedicated to delivering excellence to our customers every day.

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Today Susan Sharer speaks with Jennie Lucca, CEO, The Children’s Inn at NIH and Todd Pantezzi, Children’s Inn at NIH Evening for Hope Gala Committee Chair about this year’s event.  They discuss the unique public-private partnership with NIH, what’s new for this year’s Gala, and the Inn’s strategic plan, #INN2025, which has the following goals for the next few years: 

• To work with researchers at the NIH to determine barriers to family and young adult participation in clinical research studies. And to work with the NIH and consultants to design steps to help break down those barriers. 
• To interview our families to learn how The Inn can better serve them and implement those suggestions. 
• To take the best in hospitality design and incorporate technology to create an innovative, state-of-the-art living environment at The Inn.   

If you’d like to learn more or donate, check out the links below.

Website:

https://childrensinn.org/

Bid:

https://one.bidpal.net/hope2023/browse/all

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It has been over one year since President Biden signed an executive order with an ambitious goal to “place people at the center of everything government does”
This executive order is promoting changes to social, financial and health services provided to Americans from government agencies when they experience the following events in life: 

• Approaching retirement,
• Recovering from a disaster,
• Navigating the transition to civilian life following military service,
• Birth and early childhood for low-income women and their children; and
• Facing a financial shock and becoming newly eligible for critical support

The framing of this work as supporting life experiences means that federal agencies will need to work together to understand and support their shared customers.
We’re joined by Nelly Kinsella, Organizational Change Manager of Anthro-Tech, a human centered design consultancy that works for social impact to discuss the progress that agencies have made on the goal of the executive order

Nelly Kinsella, Organizational Change Manager, Anthro-Tech
Nelly is an experienced communications strategist with a knack for digital engagement. She has led or supported the launch and maintenance of nearly a dozen digital products, including informational and educational websites, intranets, and highly integrated web and mobile applications. She loves to untangle knots, learn on-the-fly and pull apart the components of complicated situations.

Nelly holds Masters degrees in both Health Administration and Public Health Policy, as well as a graduate certificate in User-Centered Design (UCD) from the University of Washington. She is a scrum-certified product owner and practitioner of agile development.

Fueling Nelly's role as Organizational Change Manager at Anthro-Tech is her passion for coaching teams in UCD tools and process. Specifically, she is motivated to get organizations with a social-impact mission to harness the power of user personas and relentlessly enhance the customer experience.

Anthro-Tech
Anthro-Tech is a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits, and enterprises with a social impact mission. We help organizations gain a deep understanding of their customers through research to design products and services that are usable, useful, and make a positive impact on peoples’ everyday lives. Over the past 20 years, we’ve partnered with many organizations to transform how they engage their customers, including dozens of county, state, and federal government organizations, global foundations, and fortune 500 clients. Anthro-Tech was founded in 1997. We are a women-owned business with offices and user experience labs in Olympia and Seattle. We’re driven by our purpose - to build a great business that makes things better for people.

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In this episode, ICF’s Chief Technology Executive, Mark Lee, and Chief Technology Officer, Kyle Tuberson, discuss the current state of federal technology and digital modernization initiatives, and predictions on where efforts will evolve in the near future. To inform the discussion, Mark and Kyle share findings from a recent report published by ICF that uncovers common pain points throughout the modernization process, and how agencies can overcome them, tapping into trends such as upskilling, product management, the role of a Chief Data Officer, and the power of unified communication, among other key topics.

Mark Lee 

Chief Technology Executive  

As chief technology executive, Mark strengthens ICF’s technology solutions and drives the company’s overall technology strategy. His team works to increase ICF’s technology capabilities and enhance corporatewide technology procedures, systems, and partnerships to offer more value to clients and employees. 

Mark’s team focuses on helping leaders think differently about how to address significant and interconnected challenges impacting society today. They provide technology, digital solutions, and advanced data and analytics tools—backed by deep domain expertise—to help clients deliver practical programs that lead to positive outcomes. 

Mark previously served as the executive vice president of ICF’s public sector business and has been with ICF for nearly 30 years. He has held many leadership roles across the public sector business, including previously serving as the head of business development and the disaster management division. Prior to this, he led the climate, sustainability, environmental health, and surface transportation businesses and has extensive experience supporting a wide range of clients in addressing technology, regulatory, workforce development, and policy challenges. 

An industry leader, Mark was recognized by WashingtonExec as a Top Public Sector Leader to Watch in 2020 and 2021, and he received a 2022 Longevity Award for his career trajectory at ICF. Mark is also an executive committee member for the Professional Services Council. 

Mark holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Kyle Tuberson  

Chief Technology Officer 

Kyle Tuberson is ICF’s chief technology officer. He has over 20 years of technology consulting experience in the areas of data visualization, geospatial analytics, data management, and data science. In his role, Kyle builds teams that use data to create innovative solutions to difficult business challenges. This includes helping clients evolve their cultures toward embracing digital adoption, better leverage data and scale enterprise technology for greater impact, enable faster development cycles, accelerate innovation through repeatable frameworks, and more. 

Kyle’s team leads initiatives that focus on providing IT modernization services to the government and to industries such as healthcare and energy. These services include IT modernization, cloud computing, machine learning, internet of things (IoT), geospatial analytics, data visualization, and more. By applying data science and data visualization techniques to drive impact, they have helped ICF’s clients reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve access to healthcare in emerging markets, and prevent fraud with government programs. 

Kyle was recognized by WashingtonExec as a Top Chief Technology Exec to Watch in 2023. He is also a 2018 Federal 100 award winner. 

Kyle holds a master’s in technology management from George Mason University and a bachelor’s in management information systems from George Mason University. He was also awarded the CIO University Certificate in Federal Executive Competencies by the Federa

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This podcast is based on an event dated April 12, 2023. If you missed this event, be sure and check out our list of upcoming events on Forum. 

Today we are speaking to Susan Sharer, the CEO at Forum about the upcoming Disruptive Tech Summit taking place at (location).  It will be an opportunity to hear from the Federal IT innovators and game changers who are positively transforming how Government fulfills its missions.

Register for the event here.

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Today we discuss the importance of, impact of and future of Internet Protocol version 6 with Ralph Wallace of Aptive Resources.


Ralph Wallace

As program director and IPv6 lead at Aptive Resources, Ralph Wallace leads a 40-person team through the IPv6 transition under the OMB memo M-21-07 for a cabinet-level agency. The memo requires the federal government to complete the transition to IPv6. Ralph is internationally recognized as an IPv6 subject matter expert. The IPv6 Forum designated him an IPv6 Deployment World Leader, and he has been inducted into the international IPv6 Hall of Fame. Ralph contributed significantly to the latest federal government directive to move all federal agencies to IPv6-only enterprises by 2025. Over the past 13 years, he has led various federal cross-organizational teams in their respective enterprise transition to IPv6, including every aspect of the transition from technical to logistical and programmatic. Ralph has more than 40 years of technology experience in executive and systems engineering leadership; engineering, portfolio, program and project management; and capture management.

Aptive Resources

Led by CEO Rachele Cooper, a Navy Veteran and aerospace engineer, Aptive is a trusted partner and consulting services provider for organizations seeking to accomplish strategic transformations, improve performance and leverage modern technology. Aptive is an ISO 9001:2015 and CMMI L3 certified business and has supported the federal government for more than a decade across a range of high-profile programs.

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