National Institutes of Health

Since 1986, AAC has provided technical and operational support to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM), which houses the largest medical information library in the world. NLM provides electronic information resources that are searched billions of times per year by millions of people around the world, according to the web site. AAC has been providing comprehensive IT support services to include engineering and operations support, to include cloud migration, cybersecurity, and standardization of enterprise-wide services.

AAC is providing NLM with healthcare-focused encyclopedic content to populate their MedlinePlus Web site and database through our exclusive partner’s unmatched medical encyclopedia offering. Over the last 16+ years, the quality of their authoritative content has increased while the English and Spanish content has grown to 4.450 topics. When MedlinePlus was first launched in 1998, it offered 44 medical articles targeting consumers, patients, researchers and medical professionals in its first year. In 2018, MedlinePlus offered over 10,000 medical articles in English and Spanish and MedlinePlus.gov had over 84 million unique visitors.

As a subcontractor on the Network Support Services task order, AAC provided the NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT) Division of Network Systems and Telecommunications (DNST) network operations and engineering services to meet NIH’s requirements to provide the 27 institutes and centers with a data and voice network capable of supporting the more than 44,000 NIH staff in 200+ buildings across the DC and Maryland metropolitan areas, Arizona, Montana, and North Carolina.

The NIH selected AAC Inc. and teammate ESAC to provide expertise in the areas of health IT and data standardization techniques to help establish the Biomedical Standards Coordinating Center (SCC), meant to be a one-stop for biomedical standards information that is easy to utilize and leverages the existing efforts of the community as a result of the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. Overall, the focus of the BD2K program is to support the research and development of innovative and transforming approaches and tools to maximize and accelerate the integration of Big Data and data science into biomedical research.