1. OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICE DELIVERY AND ENGINEERING Briefing to Industry DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Charles De Sanno TAC APBI, Eatontown, July 18, 2012

2. “Canvas Orchestration” Need to bring together all the projects that we have in flight High Level Initiatives include: –Mobile –Data Center Consolidation –Cloud Computing –Legacy VistA –IT Infrastructure –Technology Innovation Program Office SDE APBI 1

3. Mobile Integrate mobile strategy into all initiatives Increased usage of mobile technologies to access enterprise applications and data Align VA strategies with Federal CIO “Digital Strategy” released at the end of May High level goals –Advance VA healthcare by developing solutions that use the latest technology. VA may have up to 100,000 mobile endpoints across the Department within two years, helping to support the delivery of evidence-based medicine –Provision a mobile version of VistA with complete encryption, which may enable VA staff to securely upload and view medical records from tablets and other mobile platform –Pursue a technical and policy solution for BYOD SDE APBI 2

4. Data Center Consolidation Original plan was the migration of Region 2 & Region 3 VistA & related systems into commercial leased data centers In consideration of iEHR. Discussion begun with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on hosting in Defense Enterprise Computing Centers (DECCs) Initial proposal for COLO provided attractive pricing Enhanced services quote including Defense Information Security Network (DISN) transport due June 10 Discussion of remaining NDCP orders and re-use of purchased hardware awaits DISA proposal If DISA agreement is reached all VA healthcare applications would be considered for consolidation to DECCs SDE APBI 3

5. Cloud Computing SDE APBI 4

6. Cloud Computing Federal CIO 25 Point Plan & Cloud First Strategy Existing VA Cloud Implementations –Chapter 33, VBMS, VRM, AIDE oAll using IaaS Cloud Implementations under evaluation –Email –Archival –MDM –Collaboration – document/calendar sharing Plans for expansion of internal IaaS and PaaS offerings SDE APBI 5

7. Voice as a Service (VaaS) Migrate to single, integrated platform with the ability to provide shared services to all business lines/users across the enterprise for –call control (“dial tone” and typical telephony functions) –call center functions (both local and national) –audio conferencing –future integration of video conferencing, “presence”, unified messaging applications and access to corporate data sources SDE APBI 6

8. Legacy VistA Migration to Linux –Many VA facilities have received Linux servers for their VistA system. –Installation of Linux servers across Region 2 and Region 3 as front ends allowed for spare equipment to be relocated. –Linux operating system is Version 5 for commodity front end application servers at local facilities. –Red Hat Linux Version 6 to be released with full Linux platform environment in Region 2 and Region 3 data centers. –Full Linux platform migrations are planned for St. Louis and Warner Robbins data centers. –First full Linux platform will be migrated to St. Louis by end of September 2012 SDE APBI 7

9. IT Infrastructure Lifecycle refresh of critical infrastructure components Increased use of Open Standards Wireless installations SATCOM WAN Acceleration AV/Malware/HIPS Full Disk Encryption SDE APBI 8

10. Virtualization Increased use of Virtualization on both servers and clients Currently approaching FY 12 target of 50% server virtualization “Virtualization First” Policy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure –Provide flexible access to applications and data –Deliver resources (applications and data) to users instead of devices –Helps facilitate increased use of mobile technologies SDE APBI 9

11. Technology Innovation Program Office Strategic planning and engineering of new infrastructure technologies to mitigate the risk of technology stagnation Continually drive innovation by identifying alternative approaches and products Monitor market trends, collect internal requirements, determine enterprise product set and develop technology road map Plan integration of alternative technologies to advance competition in VA’s IT environment Potential acquisitions: –Enterprise Software Asset Management –Engineering resources for analysis of alternative technologies/products –Server Hosted Virtual Desktop Pilot SDE APBI 10

12. Vision for 2013/2014 Expansion of secure mobile access to VA applications and data Increased usage of Virtualization Increased usage of Cloud Computing Move toward delivery of applications to users rather than devices Continued move towards open standards/open source products and technologies SDE APBI 11

13. Other Proposed FY 13 Projects Wireless Installations ~ $30-38M Dev/Test Center Expansion ~ $60-66M Strong Authentication/2FA ~ $3.5-6M OSD Driver Management ~ $2-3M Enterprise PKI Certificate Solution ~ $2- 4M Enterprise SharePoint Implementation ~ $8-11M SDE APBI 12

14. SDE APBI 13 Questions or Comments? For additional information, please contact: VAITSDEACQUISITIONSTRATEGY@va.gov