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Jose L. Arrieta
Director, Schedule 70 Operations
General Services Administration
Blockchain trailblazer. Arrieta has since moved to a new role at the Department of Health and Human Services, but at GSA he led the largest IT contract in the world. Schedule 70 averages $15 billion in business annu- ally and provides IT products and services to 1,000 federal, state and local customers. Under his leadership, GSA became the rst federal organi- zation to use blockchain to automate contract awards and modi cations.
In only eight weeks, Arrieta led
the development and launch of the technology. As a result, the awards approval process dropped from 110 days to nine and the time to make contract modi cations narrowed from 40 days to three.
Vera Ashworth
Vice President
CGI Federal
Data Act coach. Ashworth leads the strategy, innovation and delivery over- sight of CGI Federal’s services to the departments of State and Commerce and the U.S. Agency for International Development. She spearheaded the rm’s work to prepare clients for the Digital Accountability and Transpar- ency Act by collaborating with agen- cies and industry, preparing outreach materials, educating teams and pulling in outside experts. Her work helped agencies focus on data quality and internal controls ahead of deadlines.
In 2017, data on billions of dollars’ worth of federal spending was made available to the public under the Data Act.
Marianne Bailey
Principal Director, Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity
Department of Defense
Threat detective. If such things were possible, Bailey could have
won two Federal 100 awards for her work in 2017. For the rst part of
the year, she was principal director for the Defense Department’s chief information security of cer and led DOD’s threat-based cybersecurity architecture review. A longtime NSA employee before coming to DOD, she returned to the agency last spring to be the lead cybersecurity adviser for all U.S. government national security systems deemed critical for military and intelligence activities. Virtually all those efforts are classi ed but abso- lutely vital to national security.
Matthew R. Bailey
Digital Services Expert and Acting Unit Chief, Of ce of the Federal CIO
Of ce of Management and Budget
The cruft-cropper. Much like soft- ware code, the federal government’s internal policies can get unwieldy over time. “There’s a broad recogni- tion that the way we make policy today is something that was created before we created the internet,” Bai- ley said. Through Project Cruft, he reviewed over 250 IT policies issued by OMB and identi ed dozens that were ineffective or impeding innova-
tion, and many were eliminated. He
is also reshaping the way policies are accessed and implemented by leading efforts to create a website that pres- ents policy requirements in a clear and concise manner.
Judith Baltensperger
Project Manager
Department of Homeland Security
Console controller. Baltensperger is responsible for developing, deploying and supporting Continuous Diagnos- tics and Mitigation dashboards to help agencies improve the cybersecurity of their networks. She achieved several major milestones in 2017, including the certi cation and accreditation of the overall federal dashboard and two releases of the agency-level dash- board with increasing functionality. She also established data exchanges between several agency dashboards and the federal one. Her colleagues say those activities required close attention to detail, clear communi- cation with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, a sense of humor and a rm commitment to get- ting the dashboards released despite challenges along the way.
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