“Jose Arrieta has only been the Health and Human Services Department’s chief information officer for six days, but he’s already planning to transform the role and establish more collaborative partnerships with other agencies around emerging technology…”
“Arietta said he and his team are already working with other agencies to pilot new programs around different budding technologies.”
“For example, Arietta said he is in introductory conversations with the Defense Information Systems Agency to try to find new ways to secure the edge of networks from an identity perspective, or essentially determine new means of authentication. DISA has the wireless devices and behavioral capabilities to determine identity, but what it needs—and what HHS has—is a distributed network to test everything on…”
“Arietta also added that the agency wants to be a leader in the internet of things, or IoT, space.” Read the full article here.
Source: New CIO Wants to Make HHS a Testbed for Budding Tech – By Brandi Vincent, June 5, 2019. Nextgov.
