*** MITRE was awarded a sole source contract by the Defense Health Agency on behalf of multiple users of the new electronic health record system being fielded by the Defense Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Coast Guard to explore the potential to use the vast amounts of health data to extract insights and intelligence to improve the quality of care across these institutions as well as in the larger, private healthcare system.
*** The National Security Agency awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise a 10-year, $2 billion to provide high performance computing services, the company announced on Wednesday. Washington Technology has more on this story.
*** Evaluation.gov is the federal government's new home for the Evaluation Officers Council and a clearinghouse of information about federal program evaluation – an activity that has been supercharged in recent years as a result of the passage and implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act.