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Eric A. Stahlberg
Director, High Performance Computing Strategy
Leidos Biomedical Research
SUPERCOMPUTING FOR CANCER RESEARCH. When Stahlberg’s sister was undergoing treatment for cancer, he realized there was a gap between what is happening in cancer research and what is available at medical facili- ties. As director of high-performance computing at the Leidos-operated Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Stahlberg seized the opportunity to combine the lab’s and the National Cancer Institute’s research with the computing power of the Energy Department. The new partnership has already led to three pilot programs that bring together scientists from multiple agencies with the goal of advancing cancer research and speeding new treat- ments into clinical practice.
Denby Starling
Vice President and Account Executive, Navy-Marine Corps Accounts
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
RISK MANAGEMENT AT SCALE. Starling is transforming HPE’s performance on the military’s largest IT contract — the Next Genera- tion Enterprise Network. Under his leadership, the company has been aggressive about controlling costs, adopting distributed technology and expanding commercial partnerships, while always accounting for the fact that NGEN is much more than a busi- ness network. Starling helped both
industry and the Defense Depart-
ment come to a common understand- ing about measures and tactics for
risk assessments and led the way on rethinking recruiting strategies for cybersecurity professionals — for HPE and the entire federal IT community.
Kevin M. Stine
Chief, Applied Cybersecurity Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Department of Commerce
STANDARDIZING SECURITY.
Through Stine’s leadership, NIST has expanded its program to address
the nation’s cybersecurity chal- lenges and accelerate implementa- tion of standards and best practices in the public and private sectors.
He brought together the U.S. Coast Guard and maritime industry organi- zations to assess their cybersecurity risks and determine standards and best practices to improve their infra- structure. He also helped agencies, the health IT community, medical device manufacturers and cyberse- curity vendors improve the security of medical devices. In addition, Stine integrated his privacy team into proj- ects throughout NIST, which resulted in better management of security and privacy risks.
Terry L. Watson
Deputy Program Executive Officer, PEO Enterprise Information Systems
Department of the Army
ACQUISITION ALL-STAR. Wat- son spent much of 2016 as the acting program executive officer, oversee-
ing an acquisition workforce of more than 1,600 and 34 programs that field more than $4 billion worth of critical IT systems annually. Under her lead- ership, Defensive Cyber Operations produced three prototype systems, the Logistics Modernization Program was fully deployed, and the $5 billion IT Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware contract was awarded. She also suc- cessfully launched the first hardware buys for Home Station Mission Com- mand Centers — a top priority of Army leaders.
Preston Werntz
Senior Strategist for Analysis and Operations, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications
Department of Homeland Security
CONNECTING THE SECTORS.
Werntz was instrumental in establish- ing the Automated Indicator Sharing platform for sharing real-time, bidi- rectional, cyberthreat intelligence between the federal government and private-sector entities. AIS was the first system of its kind to bridge the private and public sectors and the first mission-critical workload DHS deployed in Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud. Werntz worked with multiple DHS stakeholders to ensure that the standards for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program accreditation were met. AIS has already shared more than 75,000 unique threat indicators — 100 to 150 a day — among 90 participants in government and the private sector.
ERIC A. DENBY KEVIN M. TERRY L. PRESTON STAHLBERG STARLING STINE WATSON WERNTZ
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