Advancing a unified HHS mission requires aligning health technology, interoperability, and data strategy across the entire Department to support whole-person health, measurable outcomes, and lessons learned. By strengthening interoperability, HHS can better reach underserved communities, responsibly leverage AI to accelerate research, and more effectively translate research insights into real-world improvements for the broader population. Achieving this vision depends on sustained collaboration across HHS operating divisions, supported by a modern, consistent cybersecurity framework that builds public trust while protecting sensitive data. Finally, success requires balancing program-specific objectives with broader consolidation and modernization efforts, ensuring they are ultimately reinforced through a coherent, forward-looking procurement strategy that scales innovation, reduces duplication, and delivers long-term value.

Attendees will learn how different operating divisions across HHS plan to balance their missions while aligning with Department-wide initiatives and will gain a better understanding of upcoming procurement strategies from leaders within key public health organizations. Attendees to this session will walk away with insights of how various Operating Divisions across HHS plan to balance their own mission while aligning to Department-wide initiatives, and understand the go forward procurement strategies from the leaders within key public health organizations.

Key Discussion Topics
• How HHS is moving from fragmented data to a whole-person integrated ecosystem. 
• Balancing responsible AI adoption with the need to accelerate research-to-delivery times.
• Using interoperability to ensure healthcare reaches the hardest-to-serve communities
• Harmonizing cybersecurity across divisions to protect sensitive data without stifling innovation.
• Moving procurement from one-time solutions to scalable, department-wide mission alignment.