The Military Health System Information Assurance (MHS IA) Program, under the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, TRICARE Management Activity, upholds the highest standards to protect and maintain the confidentiality of patient information, as well as the defense of information systems.

The MHS IA supports military readiness and peacetime healthcare, certifies and accredits centrally managed applications,and communicates security related IT issues or items of interest affecting the DoD. The MHS IA mission is to test, verify and assure adequate security controls for information technology systems supporting the DoD in the accomplishment of its healthcare mission.

SATISFIED CUSTOMER:
Director, Military Health System (MHS) Information Assurance Program

"… Over the past four years Network Security Systems Plus (NSSPlus) has provided excellent support to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, TRICARE Management Activity, Military Health System Information Assurance Office. … NSSPlus has consistently stood out as one of the program's strengths. They have been as solid and as steady as a rock. From the beginning, I have placed great value on the advice, input and results provided by NSSPlus ... I have come to rely on NSSPlus for their technical competence, professionalism, reliability and ability to deliver under the most demanding conditions. They are quite simply among the best I have been around. … I consider NSSPLUS to be as vital a member of the team as any supporting the C&A work here at TMA. They have contributed immensely to its unqualified success."

" … NSSPlus has significant technical and managerial experience in Network Engineering, Information Assurance and in particular, Information System Certification and Accreditation ( C&A). In the past 4 years they have been directly involved in the C&A of 300 sites across the United States. … Additionally, NSSPlus [has performed] Physical Security Assessments [at 300 separate sites], to include evaluation of information policies and procedures, incident response, disaster recovery and back-up plans."

The Executive Information and Decision Support (EI/DS) Program Office provides decision support information and tools used by Military Health System (MHS) managers, clinicians, and analysts to manage the business of health care within the MHS. To facilitate providing complete, accurate information upon which to make decisions, EI/DS manages the receipt, processing, and storage of tremendous volumes of data that characterize MHS operations and performance

SATISFIED CUSTOMER:
From: An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Program Manager, EI/DS Program Office Systems, Military Health System

" … [NSSPlus] has been directly involved in the [Certification & Accreditation ( C&A)] readiness of the EI/DS Program Office systems. NSSPlus has provided exceptional service in support of the EI/DS C&A program, to include performing Security Testing of networks, network devices, workstations, and servers. I score NSSPlus with a performance rating of "High" in Technical Expertise, Deliverables, Scheduling, Cost, Quality of Work, and Effective Communication. The company has dependable security and information assurance experts [who] are customer oriented and dedicated to getting the job done."