Military health and the move from legacy systems

Douglas E. Barton is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Engineer for Leidos Health and is responsible for the Group’s technology investment strategy, oversight of Independent Research and Development (IRAD), management of solution architects, technical capture strategy, and architectural oversight of programs in the Group’s portfolio. Mr. Barton created the Leidos Solution Architect Development program for the corporation and serves as the Review Board Chair. He recently served as Chief Engineer for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) program, a $4.3 billion dollar program to replace the legacy DoD EHR with commercial EHR products. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Prior to joining Leidos in February, 2011, he served as a Chief Engineer for Command, Control and Tactical Intelligence programs for Lockheed Martin Corporation during a 29 year career where we also served as a Program Manager, Technology Director, New Business Capture Director and Line of Business Executive. He was a key strategist for solutions that enable network-centric operations, transformational battle management and health information exchange. He served as a capture consultant supporting the top 60 captures. In the last two years of his tenure, he served as capture manager on two $800M pursuits (GCSS-AF and MDA OSF), both of which were won by the LM team.

Mr. Barton has served with a variety of industry associations and consortia to include the National Security Industrial Association (NSIA), the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA), the Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI), the Industry Panel of the Air Force C4ISR Summit, the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCIOC), the American Society of Naval Engineers, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and was a 2006/2007 panelist on the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) workshop on secondary use of health data.

Mr. Barton graduated summa cum laude with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science and Music from the College of William and Mary in 1978 and did post-graduate work on a Drapers Company Scholarship in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

John Gilroy has been a member of the Washington D.C. technology community for over twenty years. In 2007 he began weekly interviews on Federal News Radio called “Federal Tech Talk with John Gilroy.” His 428 interviews provides the basis for profitable referral business. In 2009 he created a successful breakfast club of previous radio guests called The Technology Leadership Roundtable. He has been instrumental in two of his guests forming their own radio shows: Derrick Dortch with “Fed Access” and Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm with “Women in Washington.”

In 2011 he began teaching a course in social media marketing at Georgetown University; in March of 2014, John won the Tropaia Award for Outstanding Faculty. John conducts monthly corporate training for large companies on how to leverage social media to generate revenue.