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Jose Arrieta
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary, Division of Acquisition, Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources
Department of Health and Human Services
Blockchain innovator. Arrieta brought the first blockchain-powered procurement solution to government. He worked with 11 operating divi- sions across HHS to collect informa- tion from five contract-writing sys- tems that handle more than 100,000 contract actions a year and combined the information into a single data layer. Within six months, he had achieved an authority to operate for the solution — the first ATO for block- chain in government — and com- pleted a $3 million business plan. His work through ACT-IAC and HHS has inspired other agencies to think about how blockchain-layered microservices can be incorporated into their own operations.
Darren Ash
Associate CIO
Department of Agriculture
Modernization leader. Ash is
skilled at developing IT solutions that improve relationships between agen- cies and the constituents they serve. He is leading USDA’s efforts to mod- ernize its IT operations through the development and work of five Centers of Excellence. Ash, working with the General Services Administration, was instrumental in the creation of the centers in 2018, and he oversees the
cloud and data centers within USDA. He also played a key role in the devel- opment of Farmers.gov, a one-stop shop for farmers to access the vast array of information and services USDA offers.
Nate Ashton
Director of Accelerator Programs
Dcode
Steering Silicon Valley to govern- ment. Plenty of people talk about the importance of bringing new indus-
try partners and their cutting-edge technologies into the federal space. Ashton does the heavy lifting. A for- mer White House staffer, he took over Dcode’s accelerator programs at the beginning of 2018 and by year’s end had shepherded 43 companies into the federal market. Those efforts took many forms — from agency introduc- tions to messaging advice to demysti- fying the procurement process — but the dividends were clear. Over those 12 months, there were 39 implementa- tions of “Dcode company” technolo- gies across government.
Alan Bloodgood
Senior Vice President, Energy and Infrastructure
Siemens Government Technologies
Boundless energy. There are smart energy solutions, and there’s being smart about energy solutions. Blood- good delivers the former by being the latter. He secures energy savings performance contracts that allow agencies to implement energy- efficiency programs at no cost to tax-
payers. In three years, he has over- seen the implementation of 10 such contracts, including the first at a gov- ernment-owned, contractor-operated facility: the 1.6 million-square-foot Lima Army Tank Plant in Ohio. Blood- good also worked with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to introduce a regional ESPC covering three Navy installations in Italy and Spain that will save more than $171 million over 20 years.
Matthew Blum
Associate Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy
Office of Management and Budget
Acquisition advocate. As a top pro- curement policy official at OMB, Blum could reasonably claim to be too busy to take on more work. However, he also leads one of the most influential cross-agency acquisition groups in the federal government — the Acquisition Innovation Advocates Council. The group taps expertise from programs such as OMB’s U.S. Digital Service, the Presidential Innovation Fellows, the General Services Administration’s 18F and others. Through his leader- ship, the AIA Council is finding ways to embrace emerging and innovative business practices that are changing the way the government operates.
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