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CW5 Todd A. Doherty
Senior Technical Advisor, Joint Staff
Department of Defense
JIE’S ADVOCATE. The Joint Information Environment, DOD’s vision and strategy for IT reform, will come to pass if Doherty has anything to say about it. Last year, he shaped key information provided to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that successfully gar- nered its reaffirmation of JIE’s impor- tance as vital to improving warfighter capability and the needed cultural shift to operate IT as an enterprise. He has also overseen critical cyberse- curity upgrades across DOD. Doherty is a “soldier’s soldier” regarded for his technical prowess and opera- tional foresight, and his mastery of IT makes it a critical weapon for DOD, the Joint Staff and U.S. allies.
Terry Duncan
Director, Communications Systems Directorate
National Reconnaissance Office
CLOUD SEEDER. Although mov- ing to the cloud might be federal policy, it doesn’t happen on its own. It takes people like Duncan to lead the transformation from legacy systems to new technologies — and to do it with an eye on security, agility and innovation. He is at the center of the Intelligence Community Information Environment transition and is work- ing to make the CIA’s Commercial Cloud Services experience better for the entire intelligence community. Along the way, Duncan has pioneered new cloud offerings and developed
innovative approaches to acquiring cutting-edge shared services.
Pamela Dyson
CIO
Securities and Exchange Commission
DATA ANALYTICS IN THE CLOUD. Dyson is using the cloud to bring capabilities to the SEC that are on par with those of any firm in the financial services industry. In 2016, she partnered with Amazon Web Ser- vices to develop a next-generation analytics platform for SEC analysts so they could more effectively regu- late financial markets now and in
the future. As a result, the SEC is on course to be one of the first federal agencies with a modern analytics platform in the cloud, and soon its analysts will be able to study market trends going back years instead of months.
David Eagles
Director, Center for Presidential Transition
Partnership for Public Service
MR. TRANSITION. There was a time when planning a presidential transition before the election was considered presumptuous; now it’s demanded as prudent and patriotic. Eagles, who has worked directly with both outgoing and incoming admin- istrations, played an important role in that perception shift. Under his leadership, the Center for Presiden- tial Transition began meeting with senior campaign staffers from both major parties last April to stress the
importance of early planning. Amid
a highly combative campaign, Eagles built a bipartisan initiative, and both teams began formal preparations earlier and with more personnel than ever before.
Kay T. Ely
Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of InformationTechnology Category
General Services Administration
CATEGORICALLY EXCELLENT.
Ely was already overseeing the trans- formation of the most widely used IT contract vehicle in the government (Schedule 70) when she was tapped to lead the Federal Acquisition Service’s transformation to category management. That realignment bet- ter positions the organization to support industry and help partner agencies meet their mission objec- tives. Ely smoothly negotiated the challenges inherent in leading two efforts that are changing the way the government conducts business — work that coincided with one of the largest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey gains for the IT category office and Schedule 70.
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