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2018 FEDERAL 100
100 examples of where IT is headed
Shared services. IT modernization. Major acquisitions, cloud migrations and, of course, cybersecurity.
A cursory glance at this year’s Federal 100 winners would suggest that federal IT continues to be driven by the same handful of challenges that dominated last year — and the year before and the year before that. Dig deeper, however, and you’ll nd that virtually every winner has a unique story to tell.
In some cases, that story is event-driven, as with the multiple winners who stepped up in remarkable ways to help Puerto Rico and other areas recover from last year’s natural disasters. In a few others, a winner worked with new technologies that were all but unheard-of in government before 2017.
For most of the 2018 Federal 100, however, the fascinating part is how they were able to advance an agency mission by tackling familiar pillars of IT in entirely new ways.
So although it’s interesting to look for patterns and trends, it’s important to remember that these are individual awards. In the pages that follow, you’ll read about 100 women and men, from government and industry, doing tremendous work to make federal government technology — and by extension, the federal government itself — deliver better results.
The rst year of any new administration is always a bit bumpy, and 2017 saw more churn than most. But federal IT experienced very little of the stasis and standoffs that were common elsewhere in government, and many of the tech-driven innovations and improvements were nothing short of remarkable. That progress is due almost entirely to the efforts and expertise of outstanding individuals like these 100 winners.
So congratulations to the 2018 Federal 100 — for their past accomplishments and for the future path they’re charting for federal IT.
— The editors
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