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The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to automate its use of the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program to better detect cyber threats within its network, Fifth Domain reported Thursday. Oki Mek, a senior adviser to HHS Chief Information Officer Jose Arrieta, said he intends to use automation and blockchain technology to gather logs in an effort to “go down deep” within the department’s network.

Jose Arrieta, chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, has said that the department seeks to modify its acquisition strategy as it seeks to explore emerging technologies, Federal Times reported Wednesday.

Jose Arrieta, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, told Federal Times in an interview published Wednesday about the pilot programs HHS has focused on since he joined the agency and one of those is the HHS Accelerate acquisition portal.

The Department of Health and Human Services has adopted artificial intelligence to determine how government-friendly a solicited service can be, FCW reported Monday. Jose Arrieta, chief information officer at HHS, said the department constructed a neural network that has so far calculated correctly 86 percent of the time.

The Department of Health and Human Services is developing ways to use behavioral-based identity capabilities to improve security authentication procedures and move beyond traditional identifiers such as passwords, Nextgov reported Wedesday. 

Jose Arrieta, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, said HHS plans to team up with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to leverage the HHS Accelerate blockchain procurement system in identity management, Federal News Network reported Thursday. Arrieta said he plans to meet with DISA officials to discuss a pilot project to link the blockchain tool to a user’s mobile phone or wearable device to better track behavioral data for identity verification.

Jose Arrieta, chief information officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, announced plans to increase the agency’s partnerships within the government to boost innovation, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Arrieta took office as HHS’ permanent CIO on May 28 after serving as the agency’s associate deputy assistant secretary for acquisition. He said that his initial priorities will focus on changing the functions of the CIO and utilizing emerging technologies.

Jose Arrieta, associate deputy assistant secretary for acquisition of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been confirmed as HHS' next chief information officer, FCW reported Thursday. He confirmed his appointment at the Association for Federal Information Resources Management's Leadership Awards event that took place Thursday.

The Department of Health and Human Services received approval to use blockchain and artificial intelligence based tools to collect data from the contracting systems to provide live acquisition information, Federal News Network reported Friday. HHS Accelerate received the authority to operate on Monday and is expected to immediately start gathering data from five federal contract-writing systems with nearly 100K contracts worth nearly $25B.

The Department of Health and Human Services has developed an acquisition tool called HHS Accelerate that uses blockchain technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence, FCW.com reported Wednesday.