Announcing the 2023 Federal 100
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Meet the 100 outstanding individuals being honored for going above and beyond in support of federal IT over the past year.
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
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