Strategic Work Information Folder Transfer System (SWIFT)

SWIFT is Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS), a method to enable reuse of
software across multiple projects. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) has been the primary sponsor of the SWIFT platform since 2008
and is directly responsible for a significant majority of upgrades and
enhancements in that time. CMS is the primary custodian of the software source
code and will have the prerogative to define the software architecture, establish
development standards and select restricted software components for
integration.
The purpose of Strategic Work Information and Folder Transfer (SWIFT) is to
collect, route, track, and manage correspondence, regulations, memos,
invitations, requests for meeting, briefings, and Reports to Congress. These
documents come from the general public, Congress, state and local government
officials, and internal HHS offices. The Office of the Secretary (OS) Immediate
Office of the Assistant Secretary (IOAS) SWIFT application is located on servers
maintained by the Management Application Hosting Center (MAHC) and is being
used by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), the Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
(OASH), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) to house their SWIFT modules.
The type of information the system collects are from scanned documents
received by the office and correspondence generated in response to those
documents. The information includes structured data about the individual,
organization or contact that mailed or emailed the documents. Contact
information can be name, organization, address, city, state, zip code, telephone
and e-mail. Correspondence could conceivably contain any kind of information,
including health, financial, commercial, congressional, emergency disasters,
invitations, or HHS related information. Personally identifiable information (PII)
includes contact information (if the author of the original correspondence is an
individual) and may include any other type of information provided by the
correspondent. Information provided is entirely voluntary and consists of
unsolicited correspondence. The SWIFT contractors are direct contractors, and
they maintain SWIFT remotely through the HHS assigned laptop via HHS virtual
private network (VPN) using their HHS Elevated Alt Card provided by the HHS
Office of Security and Strategic Information (OSSI).

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