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Joanne Collins-Smee
Deputy Commissioner and Director of Of ce of American Innovation Centers of Excellence Projects, Federal Acquisition Service
General Services Administration
Modernization mogul. Collins-Smee joined GSA last September after a long career at IBM. In that short time, she has made signi cant progress on GSA’s Of ce of American Innovation IT modernization Centers of Excel- lence projects, which seek to tap
the most talented leaders from the public sector and industry to improve federal IT acquisition processes and support. She rede ned work streams and worked with several agencies to identify challenges and opportuni-
ties in terms of cloud, IT infrastruc- ture, service delivery analysis and customer contact centers. She also established the initial COE partner- ship with the Agriculture Department. In December, Collins-Smee took on even more responsibility, stepping in as acting director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service.
Cheri G. Couchis
Assistant Program Manager, Personnel Modernization, Sea Warrior Program, Program Executive Of cer Enterprise Information Systems
Department of the Navy
Fleet streamliner. Couchis enhanced personnel management by consolidating IT systems across the active and reserve components and piloted a solution that would integrate the Navy’s personnel and pay systems. She also partnered with stakehold- ers to improve business process
reengineering for personnel systems, allowing the Sea Warrior Program
to deliver improvements in half the time of typical projects. Couchis’ management of the Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System — the largest implementation of PeopleSoft Human Capital Management — has reduced time to market, total cost and program overhead, and affected every sailor in the Navy.
Kevin Cox
Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program Manager
Department of Homeland Security
CDM supply and demand. Cox has been instrumental in making the CDM program easier for federal agencies to access through the General Services Administration. Teaming with federal engineering, supply chain security and acquisition experts, he led work on the CDM Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense strategy. His efforts to bring focused, innovative acquisition strategies, including the CDM Approved Prod- ucts List and GSA’s Special Item Num- bers, are speeding cybersecurity tools and services to federal agencies. The rst CDM DEFEND task order was awarded in December and valued at $92.8 million.
Glenn Davidson
Executive Director of Enterprise Services
Department of Commerce
Shared-services success story.
Davidson made signi cant progress on the most mature shared-services program in the federal government.
He set up a program management of ce to oversee Commerce’s enter- prise services operations and pre- sented a convincing case to his boss, Secretary Wilbur Ross, to enrich and expand the program. The Of ce of Management and Budget has recog- nized Davidson for his government- wide leadership on shared services, and he speaks frequently on the topic to external organizations, including the Shared Services Leadership Coali- tion and the Partnership for Public Service’s Shared Services Roundtable.
Donna Dodson
Chief Cybersecurity Advisor
National Institute of Standards and Technology
The invisible hand of cybersecuri- ty. Dodson was a seasoned and steady in uence on federal cybersecurity policy in 2017 as new leaders settled into the White House, the Depart- ment of Homeland Security and the Defense Department. She served
as the top cybersecurity adviser at NIST in a year when new executive orders elevated the agency’s cyber mission, and she helped oversee the rst update to NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework since 2014. Along the way, Dodson earned a reputation for effectively engaging with industry executives. ”She’s often the invisible hand guiding NIST,” said Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
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