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LTG Bob Ferrell
CIO
U.S. Army
THE GREAT CONSOLIDATOR.
With 1.2 million service members and civilians deployed globally, the Army can’t function without robust networks, and Ferrell has led a host of modernization initiatives under the Defense Department’s Joint Information Environment campaign. He oversaw the migration to Joint Regional Security Stacks and consol- idated more than 60 percent of the Army onto a single network in less than a year. He has shepherded the Army’s cloud strategy by adopting a mixture of on-premises, off-premises, milCloud and commercial models. He has also mapped a plan to reduce the number of Army data centers from 1,200 to 10 by 2025.
Lesley Anne Field
Deputy Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy
Office of Management and Budget
STREAMLINING SPENDING.
Field is an indefatigable advocate of OMB’s push to implement category management practices to improve how and what the government buys, foster relationships with suppliers and potentially save billions of dol- lars. In 2016, she guided the manag- ers and teams of the 10 government- wide categories that are the keys
to the movement’s success. Field’s foundational work included estab- lishing and negotiating key perfor- mance indicators and cross-agency priority goals for savings, spending,
small-business utilization, reduction in duplicative contracts and use of the General Services Administra- tion’s Acquisition Gateway.
Peter Fitzhugh
Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
END OF AN ICE AGE. Fitzhugh brought ICE’s case management sys- tem out of an era of frozen data by modernizing a 30-year-old mainframe system that handled more than 2 mil- lion transactions per day. He and his team went all out to implement what was estimated to be a five-year-plus project on an aggressive one-year timeline. With the new Investigative Case Management system, users now can create an electronic file that organizes all records associated with a case via the cloud, empowering agents to conduct more thorough, data-driven investigations in support of ICE’s mission.
Mark Fox
Senior Manager for Global Defense Programs
Amazon Web Services
MAKING THE MILITARY COMFORTABLE WITH CLOUD. Fox was one of the founding members of AWS’ defense business, which by the end of 2016 had grown 279 percent in just two years. He was particularly involved with the Navy’s embrace of cloud technology, and he helped the service craft “cloud-first” policies and establish a Navy-specific
Cloud Access Point. Fox has also looked overseas for innovation and helped establish a pilot program to enable the U.S. Defense Department and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence to capitalize on cutting-edge simulation capabilities in the cloud.
Chip Fulghum
Deputy Under Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer
Department of Homeland Security
MR. MANAGEMENT. Fulghum is the guy DHS relies on for
a steady hand at a big job. In
2016, he oversaw all aspects of
the department’s management programs, including financial, human capital, IT, procurement, security and asset management.
He worked with the DHS CIO and other offices to integrate IT into the agency’s operations and provided crucial leadership support to headquarters staff and the bureaus as the Trump administration took over. Fulghum also played a key role in implementing the necessary governance structures for agile development at DHS.
LTG BOB LESLEY ANNE PETER MARK CHIP FERRELL FIELD FITZHUGH FOX FULGHUM
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