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Arrah Tabe-Bedward is the Deputy Director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) leading the Center’s operations. She previously served as the Director of the Medicare Enrollment and Appeals Group in CMS’ Center for Medicare, where she oversaw enrollment and appeals policy and operations for Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), and the Part D program and has worked in CMS’ Program Integrity Group and Office of Legislation. She holds a JD from the University of Maryland School of Law, and an MPS from DePaul University, and began her federal career as a Presidential Management Fellow.

Cody Inman serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), where he oversees agency-wide programs advancing the well-being of children, youth, and families. He also performs the duties of the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) (delegated), overseeing the Children’s Bureau and the Family and Youth Services Bureau.

Inman brings extensive leadership experience across federal and state government, with a strong background in human services policy, grants management, and technology modernization. He has led government-wide efforts to modernize federal grants systems, coordinating across more than 50 agencies to improve transparency, performance, and program integrity across a $600 billion portfolio.

He previously served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor of Oklahoma. He also held senior leadership roles at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, leading reforms across child welfare, disability, and aging systems to improve access and services for individuals with high-acuity needs.

Throughout his career, Inman has focused on connecting policy, technology, and operations to strengthen program delivery, improve program integrity, and achieve better outcomes in human services.

He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University, where he earned a degree in pre-law with a minor in business management and history.

Jennifer Johnson is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions (DAS-A) and Senior Procurement Executive (SPE) – the top Department executive responsible for the strategic management, oversight, and execution of HHS' acquisition programs. In this capacity, she provides executive leadership in shaping acquisition policy, ensuring compliance with Federal acquisition statutes, driving operational excellence across all procurement activities, and serves as the principal acquisition advisor to HHS senior leadership, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO)/Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) in carrying out their responsibilities for leading the Department’s acquisition program of over $25B annually in federal contracts.

Previously, Ms. Johnson served as the Executive Director for the Office of Acquisition Policy, Legislation, Oversight & Workforce for HHS where she advised the DAS-A/HHS SPE and CAO/ASFR on the formulation and promulgation of Department-wide policy, proposed legislation, regulations governing the Department's acquisition programs, and provided executive leadership of the acquisition workforce certification, training and development and procurement oversight and compliance programs.

Prior to joining HHS, Ms. Johnson served as Associate Director for Acquisition Policy, Oversight and Business Strategies for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of the Senior Procurement Executive in the Office of the Secretary (OST). Earlier in her career, she previously held roles as an Acquisition Policy Team Lead, Small Business Specialist and Contracting Officer at the Federal Highway Administration. She worked as a contracting professional in the private sector prior to joining the Federal Government. Ms. Johnson has over 19 years of experience as an acquisition professional and holds a Master of Public Administration, Bachelor of Science of Administration of Justice – both from George Mason University and a Master’s Certificate in Government Contracting from The George Washington University.

Kathy Lentz founded Federal Insights in 2007 as a sales and market consulting firm focused on the federal government and health care industries. Ms. Lentz provides tactical federal and state and local business development advisory services to a diverse group of clients including large privately held companies, small businesses and non-profits. Her goal is to increase your opportunity win probability through better capture strategies.

For over 40 years, Ms. Lentz has advised the federal and state and local government and non-profit companies, both large and small on strategies for successful growth and revenue generation. In 2025, she launched FedwinAcademy.com, a virtual webinar training organization, that educates companies about successful business development strategies. Prior to her current consulting role, Ms. Lentz held senior business development positions at major IT firms: Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Sciences Corporation, SAIC, Federal Sources, HCL James Martin, and Pearson.

For the Professional Services Council, she currently supports the HHS and VA Vision Teams with setting up discussions and attending key decision maker meetings. For over 8 years she led the HHS and CMS Vision teams as well as running the VA discussion team. She has presented at both CMS and FDA reverse industry days

Ms. Lentz holds a M.A. in Telecommunications from George Washington University and a B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry from Valparaiso University.

In August 2025 Mr. Parker was appointed DPED of OALC and VA’s Deputy Chief Acquisition Officer. In this role, he is responsible for leadership and oversight of over 17,000 acquisition and support personnel across VA’s portfolio of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction activities directly supporting the delivery of benefits and healthcare at 1380 facilities for over 9 million Veterans.

He previously served as Associate Executive Director of the Strategic Acquisition Center (SAC) and the National Acquisition Center (NAC)
as Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA). This multi-disciplined organization of 700 acquisition professionals and support staff operationalized a contracts portfolio of over $400B. Under his leadership, the SAC and NAC provided acquisition and logistics solutions that expanded access and quality of healthcare and services provided to Veterans and their families. SAC and NAC awarded and administered contracts across VA national programs including Community Care Network, national 
pharmaceutical and prime vendor, telehealth, prosthetics, medical-surgical prime vendor, medical equipment, medical disability exams, VA home loan and education, as well as enterprise supply and service contracts impacting every phase of the Veteran lifecycle. In addition, he oversaw nine medical Federal Supply Schedules and $1billion per year nationwide direct-to-Veteran durable medical equipment (DME) fulfilment operation with associated warehouses and logistics. Prior to joining VA, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Supply Corps Officer and retired as a Captain with 30 years of service. As Director of Contracting for the Navy’s Office of Special Projects, he directly enabled the Navy’s highest priority programs. He also served as the Division Chief for Strategy and Readiness on the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, J4, where he developed logistics strategy and planning factors for joint operation plans and recommended logistics investments in support of national military objectives. Mr. Parker served as Commanding Officer for the Fleet Logistics Center for Europe and Africa, leading 600 personnel across 10 
operating sites. He optimized and coordinated theater logistics and acquisition in support of fleet and 
expeditionary units; delivered emergent ship repairs; provided safe refueling and operational logistics at ports and aviation sites; and established deployable logistics teams to support operations in austere 
environments across two continents.

Prior to command, he served as Director of Contracting for Naval Supply Systems Command, where he acquired weapons system support, theater logistics, and led Navy wide efforts that re-engineered and implemented new global ship port visit and voyage repair processes. He was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3), Meritorious Service Medal (3) and various individual, unit and campaign awards. 

CAREER CHRONOLOGY:
2025 – Present Deputy Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics & Construction
2021 – 2025 Assistant Executive Director, Strategic Acquisition Center & Nat’l Acquisition Center
2019 – 2020 Director of Contracting, Navy Office of Special Projects, Washington, D.C.
2017 – 2019 Division Chief Strategy and Readiness, Joint Staff J4, Washington, D.C.
2015 – 2017 Commanding Officer, Fleet Logistics Center for Europe and Africa, Sigonella, Italy
2012 – 2015 Assistant Commander (Contracts), NAVSUP Headquarters, Mechanicsburg, PA

EDUCATION:
2012 Master in National Decision Making and Strategy, Naval War College, Newport, RI 2011 The Executive Program, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, VA

2003 Master of Business Administration (Contracting); Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
1991 Bachelor of Arts; Foreign Affairs; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA