Eddie Howard

Eddie Howard serves as a key procurement professional within the Defense Health Agency, supporting the agency’s mission to deliver secure, scalable, and clinically integrated healthcare services to military personnel, retirees, and their families. He manages a portfolio of acquisitions focused on administrative management consulting and digital health infrastructure, ensuring alignment with DOD’s strategic priorities in clinical workflow modernization and health data interoperability. His work directly supports the agency’s operational readiness goals by securing high-integrity services that enhance decision-making, streamline administrative functions, and strengthen the backbone of military medical IT systems. Howard maintains consistent working relationships with a select group of contractors including DEPENDABLE ON-SITE SCAN & SHRED, INC., HANITH BIOSCIENCE, LLC, LIVION TECHNOLOGY, LLC, I-2-I SOLUTIONS, INC., and DRAEGER INC. These partnerships reflect a focus on specialized service providers delivering clinical support, data management, and medical technology integration. His contracting patterns emphasize performance-based outcomes, with an emphasis on vendors capable of delivering secure, compliant, and mission-critical solutions across global DOD healthcare environments. Howard’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under full and open competition. This reflects a deliberate strategy to prioritize technical excellence, scalability, and mission-critical capability over socioeconomic preferences, ensuring the highest standards of service delivery for complex healthcare operations. His primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services), where he secures strategic advisory services to optimize clinical and administrative operations, and NAICS 518210 (Computing Infrastructure Providers), where he acquires secure data processing, cloud-enabled health platforms, and integrated IT infrastructure. His expertise centers on procuring solutions that support health information exchange, electronic health record modernization, and secure medical data hosting within the DOD’s stringent cybersecurity framework.