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V. Joseph Broadwater
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Space Group Vencore
Achieving liftoff. When NASA’s Exploration Mission 1 thunders past the pull of Earth’s gravity next year,
it will be possible in part because of work done by Broadwater and his team of industry and government experts. It used to take years for NASA to transition to new launch software, but now it takes just four months due to the advanced technol- ogy he and his team have put into place. The new system will allow for quick transitions between government and commercial payloads. Broad- water has also been instrumental in ensuring appropriations for manned space travel as an industry adviser to the Senate.
Col. Jacqueline (Denise) D.
Brown
Chief, Network Plans and Governance Division, CIO/G-6
Department of the Army
Modernization’s problem-solver.
In a team of innovators, Brown stood out for her tenacity in bringing about necessary change. She understood that the Army’s acquisition process does not fully capitalize on the private sector’s advancements in communica- tions and networking, which hampers the Army’s ability to acquire new technologies for war ghters. She con- solidated studies and research from various sources, including battle eld commanders, to identify equipment that could address gaps war ght-
ers encountered during combat
operations. Thanks to her efforts, the Army’s network modernization strat- egy is designed to ensure rapid inser- tion of new technology and will likely reduce costs in the long run.
Sean Casey
Senior Policy Advisor,
Of ce of American Innovation Of ce of Management and Budget
Mr. Modernization. Few budgetary reform debates have raised hopes in the federal IT community the way the Modernizing Government Technol- ogy Act has. And there’s a strong case to be made that MGT could not have passed without Casey’s constant col- laboration.Tapped by the White House to facilitate modernization efforts, he worked all the angles. He carved out
a pathway for appropriations and led brainstorming and analysis sessions at OMB, and he coordinated with con- gressional staffers in the House and Senate and with industry representa- tives and helped craft language to ensure support for MGT.
Byron Caswell
President and CEO
Regent Solutions
Overhaul driver. Any IT transforma- tion or upgrade project at a federal agency carries inherent risk, but there is also danger in keeping to the status quo. In 2017, Caswell worked with the Federal Communications Commission on an effort to overhaul the agency’s decades-old technology stack by adopting cloud-based tools. As a result of his efforts, external users can now interact with the FCC without downloading any extra appli-
cations or extensions. The FCC also achieved 80 percent savings with the new stack over the cost of on- premises infrastructure.
Guy Cavallo
Deputy CIO
Small Business Administration
The power of “Why not?” SBA faced two massive challenges in 2017: overhauling its IT systems for the cloud and laying the groundwork for digital modernization. Cavallo had
no budget for the agency’s cloud and data center consolidation initiative, so he streamlined existing software and service contracts and used the $1.2 million in savings to power his agency to the cloud. It’s that sort of creativ- ity and inventiveness that colleagues admire. “You have to be able to look at something and say ‘why not?’ and \\\[Cavallo\\\] brought that to the table,” CIO Maria Roat said.
V. Joseph Broadwater
Col. Jacqueline (Denise) D. Brown
Sean Casey Byron Caswell Guy Cavallo
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