>> My name is Joe Tier [assumed spelling] and I currently work
for Miter Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland.
I currently work in the role of Strategic Health Care Consultant,
supporting the Department of Health and Human Services.
And in their mission, we have roles to play in supporting both the Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes
of Health, and many other of the agencies that fall under the Department of HHS.
So we are all assigned to current projects and tasks that are due
under the federal fiscal year, and it's paramount in our role that we do multiple checks
and balances in our role as an FFRDC, both to help the government, and to monitor and work
with contracting agencies that support the Department of Health and Human Services as well.
One may be looking at the project scope that contractors have been assigned,
and the deliverables that they are being asked to deliver on a certain schedule.
We will work with the government liaison to make sure that all the moving pieces and parts
of multiple contractors are falling into place and on schedule to ensure
that the goals are met for the government agency.