“The U.S. General Services Administration and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, are entering into an agreement to modernize IT operations at NICHD. The collaboration is part of GSA’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative, housed within GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) office.”
“This collaboration will facilitate NICHD’s acceleration and adoption of an IT modernization strategy. NICHD researchers carry out the institute’s mission in the lab, in the field, and in their offices using critical infrastructure, data, and applications. The IT modernization strategic roadmap developed through this CoE partnership will provide immediate business value to NICHD and address strategic opportunities in an accelerated manner.”
“The CoE team of Cloud Adoption, Data and Analytics, and organizational change management experts will be supported by private sector teams, and expert practitioners who reside within the CoE, using documented best practices from the federal and private sectors…”
“NIH is the latest agency to partner with GSA and apply the CoE approach to modernization. Other agencies have included the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office…” Read the full press release here.
Source: GSA, NIH Partner in Centers of Excellence Initiative – May 4, 2020. GSA.
