[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 210 (Monday, October 31, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67195-67196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-28143]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Announcing the Award of a Single-Source Program Expansion 
Supplement Grant to the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of 
Public Health in Baltimore, MD, To Support the Development of a Human 
Services National Interoperable Architecture (HSNIA)

AGENCY: Office of Information Services, OA, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of the award of a single-source program expansion 
supplement grant.

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    CFDA Number: 93.647.

    Statutory Authority:  This award will be made pursuant to 
section 3021 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) 
[Pub. L. 111-148] and the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Act of 2010 [Pub. L. 111-204].

SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of 
Administration (OA), Office of Information Services (OIS) announces the 
award of $1,000,000 as a single-source expansion supplement grant to 
extend an award made to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Greenberg 
School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. The grant will allow JHU, and 
its partner, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, to continue the 
development of a Human Services National Interoperable Architecture 
(HSNIA). Under the supplement award, JHU and its partners will develop 
Phase III of an architectural framework that will be used as a model to 
facilitate State and local agencies in information exchanges among 
eligibility and verification services that are developed by the HHS/
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the requirements 
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
    To address issues related to implementation of the ACA and the 
Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010, the

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Administration has directed Federal Agencies to begin to design and 
execute plans related to the legislation. JHU and its partners will 
create the development of a conceptual information technology 
architecture with ACF/Office of Information Services. The project will 
produce a solution that supports information exchanges and 
interoperability that will lead to reductions in improper payments as a 
preventative step in the program integrity process.

DATES: September 30, 2011 through September 29, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Jenkins, Federal Project 
Officer, Office of Administration, Office of Information Services, 
Administration for Children and Families, 901 D Street, SW., 3rd Floor 
West, Washington, DC 20047; Email: [email protected]; 
Telephone: (202) 690-5802.

    Dated: October 24, 2011.
Michael Curtis,
Director, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. 2011-28143 Filed 10-28-11; 8:45 am]
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