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Joe Paiva
Chief Technology Strategist
@joepaiva
June 2014

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Background About VA
• 20+ Million Primary Customers
• Several Lines of Business (Healthcare, Insurance, Death
Services, Homeland Defense, Education, Employment…)
• ~320,000 Employees
• ~$3.4B/Year IT Budget; 400,000+ Users; 5,000+
Applications
• One of the Biggest Open Source Software Shops in World
• One of the Biggest NoSQL Shops in World
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VA’s “Burning Platform”
• Growing and evolving cyber threats
• Transformation of the healthcare industry
• Increasing pressure on federal budgets
• Greater number of Veterans receiving and using benefits
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IT Vision Overview
• The VA FY 2013-2020 OneVA Enterprise
Technology Strategic Plan describes VA’s
information technology (IT) vision
• The IT vision diagram, contained in the
OneVA Enterprise Technology Strategic
Plan, shows how new technologies are
leveraged to provide an environment that
effectively supports VA’s mission
• The four key aspects of VA’s future state
operating environment are:
o Workplace – Device, location, and
temporal freedom
o Security – Data security and secure
authentication
o Device Independent “Best of
Breed” Applications – All data is an
enterprise asset
o Infrastructure – Utility computing
and on-demand capacity
Figure 1: IT Vision Diagram 4

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Chief Technology Strategist’s (CTS)
Key Priorities
• Improve and Evolve Information Security
• Achieve Information Agility
• Reduce Total Lifecycle Cost of IT
High-Level Concept of Enterprise Common Services
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Enterprise eCRUD Services
User
Clients/
End-User Devices
Presentation
Layer
Services
Layer
Data Layer
Data
Storage
Data
Services
Shared Infrastructure
Services
Application Specific
Services
Application Specific
Services
• Web Server
• Authentication (NPE / PE)
• App Store
• Device Certification
Management
• Device OS Handling
• UDDI Registry
• Authentication
• Auditing
• Access
• WSDL
• Orchestration
• Messaging
• Failover
• Instrumentation
• Web Pages
• JS
• CSS
• JSON
Shared Presentation
Services
• eCRUD Services • Traditional Simple
CRUD Services
• Composite Services
eCRUD Service: A
data schema
agnostic service
that enables
rapid application
development and
enhancement
without server-
side coding
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Questions?
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