Department of Health and Human Services
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Meet the Presidential Rank Award winner who had to suddenly oversee the distribution of $178 billionWhen Congress passed the first pandemic relief legislation, Diana Espinosa of the Health Resources and Services Administration led the team to manage a $178 billion fund.
January 14, 2022 -
Michael Peckham, the former CFO of the Program Support Office at HHS, is one of several executives retiring after more than 30 years in government.
January 12, 2022 -
Long-time data guru Tom Beach joins the FDA while GSA shuffles some seats after Carlton Shufflebarger retires after 37 years in government.
December 13, 2021 -
Outside of the blockbuster parts of the 2022 defense authorization bill, there are many new policies Congress will mandate the Pentagon to enact once the bill is signed into law.
December 08, 2021 -
Ruth Ann Dorrill, Regional IG for Evaluation and Inspections at the Department of Health and Human Services, is this year's recipient of the June Gibbs Brown Career Achievement Award.
December 02, 2021 -
HHS' inspector general found the department faces significant challenges when it comes to data, managing it and using it. With details, the senior counselor to the OIG, Andrew VanLandingham, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
November 30, 2021 -
How does the HHS' Program Support Center (PSC) support the business of government? What is it doing to transform how it delivers services to its agency partners? How is it using emerging technologies to enhance its programs and services? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Michael Peckham Acting Chief Financial Officer & Director of the Financial Management Portfolio at HHS’ Program Support Center.
November 15, 2021 -
Natural language processing and automation are some of the technologies agencies are considering both to cope with an aging out of the federal workforce.
October 27, 2021 -
HHS' artificial intelligence strategy aims to promote AI adoption, and to ensure that algorithms are fair, legal and ethical.
October 21, 2021 -
Spending on professional services has been steadily increasing every year.
October 20, 2021 -
Contractor CGI recently won a contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The task is to build an application programming interface gateway.
October 15, 2021 -
A tangled web of policies on artificial intelligence is coming from the White House, Congress and agency leadership, but those policies aren’t syncing up yet into a single strategy for how the federal government should develop or field AI tools.
September 30, 2021 -
The Department of Health and Human Services has an office dedicated to building data capacity necessary for doing what it calls patient-centered outcomes research.
September 28, 2021 -
When fully implemented, the new risk management platform Argus will reduce the time spent manually monitoring HUD’s program grantees by over 75%.
September 22, 2021 -
With a short-term continuing resolution nearly inevitable to start the upcoming fiscal year, the White House submitted a lengthy list of budget anomalies it believes Congress should include in a temporary stop-gap funding bill.
September 07, 2021