“On June 11, CIT Director and NIH Chief Information Officer Andrea Norris participated in a keynote session led by Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS that highlighted innovators across the public sector using cloud services to optimize intelligence data, cybersecurity, and biomedical research. The other featured keynote speakers were the Hon. Susan (Sue) M. Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence (PDDNI); Morgan Reed, chief information officer for the State of Arizona; Kenny Bowen, chief information officer for special access programs at the Department of Defense; Ángel Cabrera, president of George Mason University; and 10-year-old Karthick Arun, the world’s youngest person to pass AWS’ certification test to become a cloud practitioner.”
“Norris’s portion of the talk echoed the keynote session’s theme of how cloud service providers are enhancing work in the public sector. She highlighted the STRIDES Initiative as a mechanism for NIH biomedical researchers to access the most advanced computational infrastructure, tools, and services to accelerate research outcomes, making discoveries more accessible and affordable than ever before. AWS joined the STRIDES Initiative in October 2018.”
“Norris noted that NIH is eager to transform the way NIH conducts research, shares results, and makes discoveries in patient care in order to accelerate discovery. In addition to the STRIDES Initiative, she discussed the work being done in NIH big data research programs, such as the Cancer Moonshot program, the BRAIN Initiative, and the All of Us Research program…” Read the full article here.
Source: CIT Discusses the Benefits of Cloud Computing at the AWS Public Sector Summit – July 19, 2019. NIH.
