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ACET has been awarded the Department of Veterans Affairs, Collaborative Innovation Support prime contract. The Innovation Sandbox will be a virtual and transparent environment, eventually accessible to any VA employee or Contractor with a network account.  The Innovation Sandbox will be used for a range of activities including collaborative development of ideas, requirements, models and software.   The virtual nature of the Innovation Sandbox will support communities of interest, irrespective of organizational alignment or physical location, and strengthen early idea sharing and maturation leading to the identification of promising solutions to business concerns and requirements definition that represent enterprise needs.  Consequently, the environment is expected to allow VHA to enrich its tradition of field-based innovation as well as facilitate more rapid deployment of mature software that adheres to national development standards.