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Hildi Pineda
Chief Growth Of cer
AbleVets LLC
Veteran services innovator. As
the Department of Veterans Affairs works to improve relationships with those who have served in the military, Pineda is focused on the technology solutions that can bridge service gaps when veterans transition out of the military and back to civilian life. Her work at AbleVets has helped the VA improve the sharing of patient infor- mation with the Defense Department, allowed veterans to self-schedule doc- tor’s appointments online and incor- porated enhanced cybersecurity mea- sures into various VA applications. Pineda is also working on optimizing VA call centers to give veterans quick, ef cient access to services.
Michael Powers
IT Security Manager
NASA
Space agency cyber czar. When agencies were directed to shore up their cybersecurity in the wake of
the Of ce of Personnel Management breach, NASA of cials knew their bevy of public-facing websites would be a particular challenge. But thanks to Powers, the agency was able to achieve the highest compliance rate in government: More than 99 percent of its 3,000-plus live websites are now using HTTPS. The agency also decom- missioned 1,000 sites that were no longer needed. “We basically locked the doors and windows so they can’t get in,” Powers said. “Securing the federal government’s websites from various attackers is very gratifying.”
Hildi Pineda Michael Powers
Tom Ragland
Business Development Executive
Dell EMC Federal
DHS’ industry connector. Rag- land’s role at Dell EMC was new in 2017, but his role as a connector for the homeland security community is long-standing. Such commitment and connections were especially needed last year, when the Federal Emer- gency Management Agency scrambled to respond to an unprecedented string of devastating hurricanes. The personal meetings Ragland coordi- nated between Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and FEMA leaders put critical equipment on the ground almost immediately in Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico. Ragland also cre- ated the AFCEA Homeland Security Conference, giving the Department
of Homeland Security and industry a much-needed collaboration space.
Trent F. Randall
Senior Solutions Architect
Department of the Interior
FireNet’s faciliator. Because of his outside-the-box approach to mission- critical problems, Randall was asked to solve a long-standing challenge facing the interagency re commu- nity: nding a way to enable critically needed collaboration and communica- tion among a diverse group of stake- holders with differing credentialing, authentication and other information assurance requirements. The result is FireNet, a revolutionary cloud-based platform that gives dispatch cen-
ters and re camps a single, secure point of access through which they can share information regardless of
af liation or agency. Today, FireNet supports federal agencies and will grow to include state, tribal and local governments in addition to volunteers and other re ghting partners.
Alfred Rivera
Director, Development and Business Center
Defense Information Systems Agency
Remaking DOD IT. Rivera has brought creative problem-solving, strategic insight and management expertise to DISA’s Development and Business Center and the 1,200 mili- tary service members and civilians under his direction. In 2017, he led the design, development and imple- mentation of milCloud 2.0, DISA’s rst on-premises and fully commercial cloud service. He also championed modernization efforts for the Defense Department through the testing and implementation of zero-day network defenses, break-and-inspect analysis, endpoint security solutions and data analytics. In addition, he reduced
the number of legacy security stacks without compromising DOD’s infor- mation networks.
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