# DHA Seeks Health Data Integration Input

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is seeking industry input on health-data integration, hosting, and management approaches, including a market-research RFI for its Operational Brain Health Assessment Tool/Brain Health Assessment System (OBHAT/BHAS) program. DHA is asking about architectures, interoperability across healthcare and VA-connected applications, cybersecurity, governance, data portability, sustainment, costs, and implementation timelines; the OBHAT/BHAS notice is not an award announcement. Responses are due by **noon ET on October 26, 2026 (26 days from September 30)**, and DHA plans to make that notice inactive on November 10 after evaluating responses. Separately, DHA’s data strategy aims to provide trusted data to combatant commands, while its AI expansion includes ambient-listening technology for more than 40,000 Military Health System providers.

- Contractors with healthcare data, integration, hosting, cybersecurity, or sustainment capabilities can use the RFI to describe relevant architectures and experience. For OBHAT/BHAS, address the requested cost ranges and implementation timelines as well as security, governance, interoperability, and portability.
- The opportunity is unrestricted, with no set-aside specified. The RFI is market research, so respondents should treat it as a chance to inform future requirements rather than as a solicitation or guarantee of an award.
- DHA’s broader data modernization and AI efforts point to continuing demand for trusted, interoperable health data. Companies should distinguish capabilities relevant to the hosting and integration RFIs from the separate ambient-listening deployment.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Healthcare, Information Technology
**Topics:** Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence
**Published:** September 29, 2026

### Government Entities
- Defense Health Agency (DHA)
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Department of Defense (DoD)
- Warrior Readiness, Performance and Brain Health Project Management Office (WRPBH PMO)

### Sources
- [DHA embarks on health data management contract strategy - Washington Technology](https://www.washingtontechnology.com/contracts/2026/09/dha-embarks-health-data-management-contract-strategy/416268) - Washington Technology
- [DHA CDAO Jesus Caban on scaling AI across military health | DefenseScoop](https://defensescoop.com/video/dha-cdao-jesus-caban-on-scaling-ai-across-military-health) - DefenseScoop
- [DHA Seeks Industry Input on OBHAT/BHAS Program Data Hosting](https://www.executivegov.com/articles/dha-rfi-obhat-bhas-data-hosting-integration) - ExecutiveGov