The Harlow Report

The Harlow Report-GIS

2023 Edition


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first published week of:   01/16/2023

NIH’s Governmentwide IT Acquisition Center Appoints Permanent Director


by Edward Graham

Brian Goodger, who has served as acting director of the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center since 2021, will now helm the center in a permanent capacity.

The National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday that Brian Goodger has been appointed director of the agency’s multibillion-dollar technology acquisition organization, known as the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, or NITAAC.

According to a press release from NITAAC, Goodger—who has served as NITAAC’s acting director since 2021—will “oversee NITAAC federal employees and in-house contractor staff, as well as provide strategic oversight for the program’s government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs), assisted acquisitions, government-wide strategic services and other initiatives related to the administration of its GWACs.”

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