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2018 FEDERAL 100
Kay Kapoor
President
AT&T Global Government Services
Government IT trifecta. Landing a large contract is not in itself Fed- eral 100-worthy. Winning an award
as critical as FirstNet is another story — particularly when that win involved rethinking central contract provisions to ensure that the 25-year deal delivers for rst responders and AT&T alike. Kapoor’s creative leader- ship showed in other ways as well: The executive team she recruited has brought services and IT solutions expertise to the rapidly evolving tele- com giant, along with new ways to serve government customers. Before leaving in October to launch Arya Technologies, Kapoor also helped AT&T win key spots on the Enter- prise Infrastructure Solutions and Alliant 2 contracts.
Casey Kelley
Director, Customer Engagement Division, IT Category, Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration
Alliant leader. Kelley was a major force behind GSA’s next-generation contracting vehicle that will likely be a keystone in the federal gov- ernment’s IT modernization plans. Kelley led the effort to take gov- ernment/industry collaboration to a new level. Under his leadership, GSA’s Alliant 2 showcased several key enhancements and updates, including exibility as technolo- gies and the de nition of IT evolve, ancillary non-IT support when it
is integral to the IT services-based outcome, and provisions that ensure
a highly quali ed and competitive pool of contractors. GSA awarded the 15-year, $50 billion contract to 61 contractors in November.
Trey Kennedy
Advisor, Federal CIO Council
General Services Administration
Counseling the council. Kennedy spent 2017 implementing recommen- dations from the CIO Council’s “State of Federal IT” report, which were designed to change the way agencies manage and use IT. “We wanted to create that situational awareness for incoming IT leaders” in the Trump administration, he said. Kennedy also oversaw a realignment of the council’s committee structure to facilitate more input from non-CIOs, executed new contracts to lay the groundwork for implementing Technology Business Management principles across govern- ment and served as lead organizer
of the council’s rst technology and cybersecurity recruitment event, which led to dozens of new hires.
Yogesh Khanna
Senior Vice President and CTO
CSRA
Cloud bridge builder. Khanna oversees CSRA’s technology partner- ships with some of the largest and most notable companies, includ-
ing Amazon, Google and Microsoft. He is particularly adept at bringing cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning and other auto- mation tools from the commercial world into the federal environment at a time when agencies are increas- ingly eyeing those technologies as
a lever to lower costs and increase ef ciencies. His skill at building bridges is evident in the milCloud 2.0 project CSRA is implementing for the Defense Information Systems Agency. It connects the military to
a commercial cloud that features pay-for-use pricing and no vendor lock-in.
Robert C. King
Director, Systems and Information Integration, Management Directorate Department of Homeland Security
DHS’ data equalizer. Thanks to King’s leadership, DHS is making marked improvement on achieving data-driven decision-making, inte- grated analysis and advanced data visualization. His efforts are giving decision-makers line-of-site vis- ibility across the historically siloed areas of nance, procurement, human capital, asset management and investment data. By bundling all those capabilities, he is rede n- ing how DHS uses information to respond to national events, and he has put DHS on a new path to posi- tioning information as a strategic asset. King’s colleagues say those enterprise-level, integration-focused accomplishments are nothing short of revolutionary at a department plagued with the ongoing challenge of unifying 22 disparate agencies.
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