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Rafaa Abdalla
Deputy Chief, Transformation Delivery Division, Office of Information Technology, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Department of Homeland Security
Migration expert. Abdalla’s exper- tise in leveraging agile development techniques to transform outdated manual processes is transform-
ing USCIS’ Electronic Immigration System. ELIS is slated to become
a completely electronic service by 2020, thanks to Abdalla’s efforts to inject containerized applications, microservices-based architecture and other agile methodologies. She is no stranger to such work. She led her agency’s move to cloud microservices, pushed for the adoption of automated continuous build and delivery pipe- lines, and was responsible for DHS’ first online application.
Kenneth B. Allen
Executive Director
ACT-IAC
tions and the block-and-tackle work of helping agencies make the most of their move to the Enterprise Infra- structure Solutions contract, Allen kept ACT-IAC — with its 6,000 gov- ernment employee members and 455 member companies — focused on the collaborations that matter.
Peter A. Altabef
Chairman and CEO
Unisys
Mapping the moonshot. As part of his role on the National Security Tele- communications Advisory Commit- tee, Altabef embraced the challenge of leading a comprehensive national cybersecurity vision, dubbed the Cybersecurity Moonshot by the White House. He led a group of 22 technol- ogy executives and dozens of experts from industry and government in developing a roadmap that will help make the internet more secure for delivering critical services to the American people. Under his leader- ship, the Moonshot subcommittee of NSTAC created a seminal report that explains the current state of cyber- security and proposes a route to a future, more secure internet.
Gil Alterovitz
Presidential Innovation Fellow
Department of Veterans Affairs
Getting government ready for AI.
A Harvard Medical School profes- sor, Alterovitz was drawn to govern- ment by the untapped value he saw in federal health data. With cleaner data, artificial intelligence could bet-
ter match patients to clinical trials, for example, so Alterovitz spearheaded an effort to encourage “AI-able data,” and it attracted data scientists from around the globe to participate. The 14-week sprint produced several AI- based solutions, some of which are already being commercialized. The lessons learned are feeding a “data commons” platform for VA, which Alterovitz said could transform the agency’s data into a national resource.
Tyler Andrews
Senior Analyst, Criminal Investigations, Technology, Operations and Investigative Services
IRS
The tax man’s intel guy. To uncover criminal activity, the investigations arm of the IRS needs secure, fast access to information and data from multiple law enforcement agencies. Andrews developed the internal tools and infrastructure for IRS investiga- tors to receive timely access to sys- tems and databases that house infor- mation on intelligence and criminal investigations. He also ensured that the infrastructure monitors for insider threats, and he helped automate a video analysis process that allows investigators to speed through video review.
The great coordinator. Industry/ government collaboration is critical
in federal IT, and ACT-IAC serves as
a central hub for that collaboration. Allen, who is stepping down after leading the organization for 14 years, steered an especially important group of initiatives in 2018, including several that directly support the President’s Management Agenda and the Trump administration’s cross-agency priority goals. From tech-driven solutions, such as zero-trust networking, to policy-centric acquisition innova-
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