A Look Back at the Most Viewed Executive Moves, Interviews and Podcasts Over the Last Half of 2024

A Look Back at the Most Viewed Executive Moves and Protests on OS AI covering the last half of 2024. Plus a few Podcasts to catch you up and some Interviews you may have missed:

But First:

• Meet Bixal’s new Senior Vice President of Consulting Services, Malcolm Harden
• Meet Ibility’s new Vice President, HHS SME Yessenia Castillo 
• A Quick Check-in with REI Systems new Defense Growth Executive Patrick Walsh
• Meet Scope Infotech’s new Executive Vice President, Sherif Said
• A Quick Check-in with REI Systems new COO Gregg Garrett
• Viderity is prepping for a big 2025 – checking in with their newly hired VP of Business Development, Brady Wentlandt
• Catching up with Maximus Sr Director, Federal Health IT, Jonathan Shapland

Executive Moves:

• CMS names Patrick Newbold as new Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• VA VHA launches Digital Health Office, Nadia Smith named as Acting Chief Digital Health Officer
• CMS Marketplace IT leader Marc Richardson joins USA InfoTech – an emerging 8(a) WOSB (and Sparksoft protege)
• Sinking Ship: NITAAC Director exits, takes new role with HHS HRSA as $50B CIO-SP4 GWAC struggles to stay afloat
• Coast Guard Vet and USAID leader now CEO of major VA T4NG/Fed Health Player Sprezzatura — GovCIO Co-founder jumps back in the mix
• FEMA recruits Diego Lapiduz to serve as Chief Technology Officer
• Former top DHS IT Exec launches Advisory Practice
• Longtime VA Business Services lead departs for role with SAIC
• NIH names new OD CIO and OIT Director
• NIH names new Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer, OCIO
• Jennifer Wendel Named Permanent CIO of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• VA OIT names Acting Deputy CIO for the BAM Portfolio, Business Integration and Outcomes Service
• CMS Names new #2 to drive Marketplace Innovation and Technology Group
• Former GSA 18F lead Hannah Kane joins Nava as Chief of Staff
• VA names Chief Product Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Product Delivery Service
• Leadership swap for CMS Data Analytics and Systems Group (DASG)

A few Podcasts to Catch you up:

• Top IT staffing leader Gridiron IT’s Colby Shomaker shares insights on recruiting trends
• Early preparation in capturing CMS opportunities: JR Glass, Ali Steer, and Robert Hicks discuss the latest CMS forecast
• VA’s $60.7B T4NG2 IDIQ hits roadblock – A Re-evaluation, Collusion and Timing?! Contracts Attorney Jim Dougherty shares insight
• Overcoming the challenges of AI adoption in the federal government with Dmitry Yun of Skyward IT Solutions

ICYM these Interviews:

• Activating AI: Overcoming Common Implementation Roadblocks in the Public Sector
• Hidden River Group – Celebrating Client Success from the Back of the Room
• CivicActions – Driving the Way Forward for Open Source in the Federal Sector
• Kurrent Logic – Growing the One-Man Show

Protests:

• Lone GAO Protest Dismissed on GSA OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside – a court challenge lingers
• Decision Released: GSA Award for the MA-IDIQ OASIS+ protest denial
• Protest Denied: $150+M VA Community Care DevSecOps Support contract award
• Gov (once again) sides with challenger on $88M USDA Prometheus Information Systems, Software Applications, Web Services, & Database support award decision
• Protest Dismissed: $210M US Transportation Command Enterprise Architecture, Data, and Engineering (EADE) IDIQ
• Decision Released: GSA OASIS+ IDIQ protest denial
• 🍊OS AI Premium: VA now forced to fight protest of $60.7B VA T4NG2 IDIQ on two fronts
• 🍊OS AI Premium Update: More challengers pile-on for $50B CIO-SP4 GWAC protest
• 🍊OS AI Premium: Not so fast! GSA now forced to fight second front on GSA OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside
• Protest Update: $1B CMS Agile Collaboration and Modernization Endeavors (ACME) BPA