Nextgov Award Finalists Named

Nextgov announced on Friday that 19 finalists have been chosen for the inaugural Nextgov Awards. They represent a wide range of accomplishments, having developed new ways of managing cybersecurity, innovative systems to share information in real time and online applications designed to manage increasing workloads as the Baby Boom generation retires. And all the finalists did it in the face of bureaucratic inertia, strong political head winds, and big risks brought about by insufficient budgets and Byzantine rules that must be followed to the letter.

In the coming weeks, Tech Insider will highlight each of the finalists and their innovative, and at times provocative, programs, policies and management practices that rely on technology to move government in a new direction. The winners of the Nextgov Award will be announced at a luncheon on May 27 at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, co-produced by O'Reilly Media Inc. and TechWeb. Nextgov is the premier media sponsor.

The finalists include 12 men and seven women from 13 civilian agencies and six from Defense. The Nextgov Award finalists are:

Eric Berman

Hazards U.S. program manager

Homeland Security Department

Anita Kelly Bible

Lead project manager for Ready Retirement

Social Security Administration

Michael Bucceroni

Division chief for business support service acquisition

Army

Susan Burrill

Director of the Risk Management Division

Homeland Security Department

Laura Wade Carr

Contract specialist

Navy

Alan Cohn

Deputy assistant secretary for policy

Homeland Security Department

Daniel Hogan

Program manager for the Fish and Wildlife Service

Interior Department

Christopher Jackson

Deputy chief at the ISR Integration Division

Joint Forces Command

Jo Ann Jenkins

Chief operating officer

Library of Congress

Chris Kemp

Chief information officer

NASA

Col. Michael Lewis

Senior information assurance official

Air Force

Igor Marchosky

Technical manager for the Distributed Tactical Communications System

Navy

Lynn Mokray

Chief of the Legal Division

Air Force

Susan Penney

Management and program analyst

Homeland Security Department

Gene Rowe

Senior technical staff

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

Vish Sankaran

Director of the federal health architecture

Health and Human Services Department

Tiffany Smith

Program analyst

State Department

Daniel Stoian

Special assistant to the undersecretary of management

State Department

Jeffrey Wheeler

Deputy chief of the Office of Boat Services

Coast Guard