Announcing the 2023 Federal 100

Hundreds of nominations were submitted, and our panel of government and industry judges deliberated for hours. The result? A list of 100 individuals who personify what's possible in federal IT.

Every year, it's a tremendous privilege to be able to sift through all these stories. The pool of nominations shows the vast range of important work being done throughout the community, and there are always far more outstanding individuals than  a list of 100 can accommodate. That was certainly the case this time around.

You'll have the chance to learn more about each of this year's winners in the coming months -- via the profiles we will publish in FCW magazine and on FCW.com, and in person at our April 20 Evening of Honors to celebrate the Fed 100 winners and Government Hall of Fame inductees. For now, though, you'll have to make do with the list of names, which you can find below.

Congratulations to each and every one of the 2023 Federal 100!

• Joe Alexander
  Director, Special Programs, Technical Integration, and Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Capabilities, Office of the CIO
  Department of Defense
• Jill F. Anderson
  Legislative Affairs Program Manager
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Kelley Artz
  Supply Chain Risk Management Technical Expert, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Wendell "Baze" Bazemore
  Associate Director, Interior Business Center, Financial Management Directorate
  Department of the Interior
• Caroline G. Bean
  Senior Executive, Joint Enterprise Services Directorate
  Defense Information Systems Agency
• Winston A. Beauchamp
  Deputy CIO
  Department of the Air Force
• Lisa Belter
  Product Manager, Operational Medicine Data Service
  Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems Program Management Office
• Warren J. Blankenship
  Deputy IT Government-wide Category Manager, Information Technology Category, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Rob Bohn
  Area Vice President, North America Public Sector Sales and Strategic Business Development
  Salesforce
• Jay C. Bonci
  Chief Technology Officer
  Department of the Air Force
• William C. Bridges
  CIO Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical
  Department of the Army
• Melvin Brown II
  Deputy CIO
  Office of Personnel Management
• Robert J. Carey
  President
  Cloudera Government Solutions
• Cameron Chehreh
  Vice President and General Manager, Intel Public Sector
  Intel
• Col. Justin K. Collins
  Senior Materiel Leader, Upper Echelon
  U.S. Air Force
• Judith A. Conklin
  CIO
  Library of Congress
• Barbara Cooper-Jones
  CIO
  Ginnie Mae
• Matthew T. Cornelius
  Senior Professional Staff Member, Majority Staff
  Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
• Robert "Bob" J. Costello
  CIO, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
  Department of Homeland Security
• Group Capt. J. Blythe Crawford
  Commandant, Air and Space Warfare Centre
  Royal Air Force
• Steve Davis
  Director of Operations, Information Technology Operations and Services Branch, Office of the Chief Information Officer
  Department of Labor
• Mike Dean
  Satellite Communications Chief and Deputy CIO for Command, Control and Communications
  Department of Defense
• CeCe DeCamp
  Senior Partner and Federal Civilian Sales Leader
  IBM
• Chris J. DeRusha
  Federal Chief Information Security Officer and Deputy National Cyber Director for Federal Cybersecurity
  Office of Management and Budget
• Mittal Desai
  CIO, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  Department of Energy
• Martha Dorris
  Founder
  Dorris Consulting International
• Ryan Dukeman
  Data Scientist
  Department of State
• Robert J. Eisenhauer
  Enterprise Services Technical Director
  White House Communications Agency
• Juliane Gallina
  CIO
  Central Intelligence Agency
• Dr. Angela P. Giddings
  Technical Director
  Department of the Air Force
• Clay Goldwein
  Senior Vice-President, National Security and Justice Business Unit Leader
  CGI Federal
• Venice Goodwine
  Director of Enterprise Information Technology, Office of the CIO
  Department of the Air Force
• Richard A. Grabowski III
  CDM Deputy Program Manager, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
  Department of Homeland Security
• Jeff E. Greene
  Former Chief for Cyber Response and Policy / currently Senior Director for Cybersecurity Program, Aspen Institute
  National Security Council
• Tamara Greenspan
  GVP/GM, Oracle Federal and Canadian Public Sector Applications
  Oracle
• Joel Gurin
  President
  Center for Open Data Enterprise
• Jay Hawkins
  Acting Director, Data Center and Cloud Engineering, Office of Information and Technology
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Scott A. Heitmann
  Chief Technology Officer, Cyberspace Capabilities Center
  Department of the Air Force
• Christian Hoehner
  Policy Director
  House Oversight and Reform Committee
• Carole House
  Executive in Residence
  Terranet Ventures
• Gema Howell
  Computer Scientist and Principle Investigator
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Shad Imam
  Senior Director of Solutions Engineering, Public Sector
  MuleSoft
• Chris Inglis
  National Cyber Director
  Executive Office of the President
• Pamela K. Isom
  Director, Office of Artificial Intelligence and Technology
  Department of Energy
• Sarah (Sally) F. Jaggar
  Project Director and Fellow
  National Academy of Public Administration
• Mark A. James
  Director, Customs and Border Protection
  Department of Homeland Security
• Anthony Jungers
  Program Group Manager, FEDSIM, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Kim Kagan
  President
  Institute for the Study of War
• Agha Nabeel Khan
  Senior Advisor for Informatics, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Department of Health and Human Services
• Stephen Kovac
  Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Global Government Affairs
  Zscaler
• Col. Jennifer M. Krolikowski
  "Director Chief Information Officer, Space Systems Command"
  U.S. Space Force
• Glenn Kurowski
  Chief Technology Officer
  CACI International
• Dave C. Lago
  Product Manager, DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code, Hosting and Compute Center
  Defense Information Systems Agency, Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC)
• Michael LaRouche
  President, National Security and Space Sector
  Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
• Dave Lebryk
  Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Fiscal Service
  Department of Treasury
• Carrie Lee
  Deputy Executive Director, Product Engineering, Office of Information Technology, Product Engineering Services
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Dr. Amanda Lienau
  Director of Data and Analytics Innovation
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Renee Lobanovskyy
  Deputy Director for Information Systems at the HHS ASFR Office of Grants
  Department of Health and Human Services
• Lorna Mahlock
  Deputy Director of Cybersecurity for Combat Support
  National Security Agency
• Quentin McCoy
  Head of Contracting Activity, U.S. Cyber Command
  National Security Agency
• Dena McLaughlin
  Regional Commissioner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Eric R. Mill
  Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, Office of the Federal CIO
  Office of Management and Budget
• Thomas J. Mills
  Executive Director, Cargo Systems Program Directorate, Office of Information and Technology, Enterprise Services, U. S. Customs and Border Protection
  Department of Homeland Security
• Kamal Narang
  Vice President and General Manager, Federal Health Sector
  General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
• Robert S. Niewood
  Director, Systems Team, Assisted Acquisition Services Program Management Office, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Maj Gen John M. Olson, PhD
  Chief Data and AI Officer (former)
  Department of the Air Force
• Michael D. Parrish
  Chief Acquisition Officer
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Mark A. Patterson
  CIO, Department of Defense Education Activity
  Department of Defense
• Max Peterson
  Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector
  Amazon Web Services
• Elizabeth Puchek
  Chief Data Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
  Department of Homeland Security
• Tee Ramos
  Director of Participant Services
  Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
• Dr. Ernest M. Reed
  Director, Category Management Support Office, Executive Sponsor for ADDS UP (Analytics, Data and Decision Support Unified Platform)
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Dr. Lindsay R. Riegler
  Innovation Specialist and Speech Language Pathologist, Cincinnati VA Medical Center
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Maria Roat
  Deputy Federal CIO (former)
  Office of Management and Budget
• Col. Rocko Rodriguez
  Strategic Military Advisor / Reserve Advisor
  Department of the Air Force
• Clayton Romans
  Associate Director, Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
  Department of Homeland Security
• James L. Saunders
  Chief Information Security Officer
  Office of Personnel Management
• Dr Jay J. Schnitzer
  Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer/Chief Medical Officer
  The MITRE Corporation
• Lynn Payne Schug
  Deputy CIO, Enterprise Operations and Shared Services
  Department of Energy
• Zach Schwartz
  Acting CIO for the Office of the Secretary and Senior Advisor to the Secretary
  Department of Commerce
• James B. Sheire
  Branch Chief, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
  Department of Homeland Security
• Faith V. Shelton
  Senior Contracting Officer, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner
  Director
  Defense Information Systems Agency
• Kenneth D. Slaughter
  Program Manager, DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization
  Defense Health Agency
• Harrison Smith
  Chief, Enterprise Digitalization Office
  Internal Revenue Service
• Air Force Col. (Ret.) Jen Sovada
  President, Public Sector
  SandboxAQ
• Spence Spencer
  Director of System Configuration and Delivery Automation Division
  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Laura J. Stanton
  Assistant Commissioner for the Information Technology Category, Federal Acquisition Service
  General Services Administration
• Timothy Strebel
  Data Scientist, National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII)
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Col. Mark M. Taylor
  Project Manager, Defensive Cyber Operations, Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems
  Department of the Army
• Nathan Tierney
  Chief People Officer, Office of Information and Technology
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Trish Turner
  Program Manager and Senior Advisor for Digital Assets
  Internal Revenue Service
• Juliana Vida
  Group Vice President and Chief Strategy Advisor - Public Sector
  Splunk
• Teresa A. Weipert
  General Manager, Federal Services Segment
  Maximus
• Nicholas West
  Acting Director, Office of GSA Acquisition Policy, Integrity, and Workforce
  General Services Administration
• Brian Whittaker
  Founder
  Humans of Public Service
• Lloyd "Colt" Whittall
  Chief Experience Officer
  Department of the Air Force
• Charles Worthington
  Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information and Technology
  Department of Veterans Affairs
• Raylene Yung
  Executive Director, Technology Modernization Fund
  General Services Administration
• Briana Zack
  Project Manager for Mission Support Cost Transparency
  NASA