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Matt Cutts
Administrator, U.S. Digital Service
Office of Management and Budget
Bridging the divide. Many experts were concerned that USDS might not survive a change in administration. But under Cutts’ leadership, it not only survived, it flourished. The team continued its wide range of innova- tive work in 2018 and further solidi- fied its position as a trusted partner in federal IT. USDS worked on projects with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the depart- ments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, among others. USDS teams made significant prog- ress in many areas, including helping veterans apply for and obtain benefits online and creating a secure login across government.
Amir Dastouri
Identity Services Branch Manager
Department of Homeland Security
ID implementer. When Dastouri took over DHS’ Access Lifecycle Management system, the agency was looking for a way to create “a whole picture of what made up a person’s identity so that we could make proper access control decisions” during onboarding, said Thomas McCarty,
a division manager at DHS. He and other agency leaders credit Dastouri’s technical chops and leadership style for ensuring the successful rollout of ALM to 10,000 employees, which has helped improve the agency’s cyberse- curity posture. “He has a characteris- tic of authority,” McCarty said. “You
know you’re talking to a person who knows his stuff.”
Dana Deasy
CIO
Defense Department
Rethinking DOD IT. DOD’s cloud environment is often described as disparate and fragmented. But with Deasy as CIO, that landscape is rap- idly shifting toward a more unified future. In just a year, he has released cybersecurity and cloud strategies, championed the move to general- purpose cloud technology and launched the Joint Artificial Intelli- gence Center. By applying his experi- ence on large-scale IT projects at JPMorgan Chase and other industry titans to DOD’s challenges, Deasy
is on his way to reshaping the CIO’s office as the department’s leader for advanced technologies.
John J. DeSimone
Vice President, Cybersecurity
and Special Missions
Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services
The traveler. DeSimone helped launch the DOMino program, Ray- theon’s billion-dollar development, operations and maintenance contract with the Department of Homeland Security. His team transformed the company’s business processes, part- nered with smaller startup compa- nies to integrate new technologies, launched cyber training academies in the U.K. and Kuwait, and worked on a cooperative cybersecurity accord
with the U.K. government. He and
his team are cultivating the future cybersecurity workforce by sponsor- ing cyber defense competitions and scholarships for women who want to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Gary Durst
Director of Logistics, Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate U.S. Air Force
An EMT for enterprise systems.
Durst spearheaded the establishment of a servicewide incident response team to quickly resolve system out- ages affecting Air Force financial and business operations. Within 24 hours of identifying what was blocking $2 billion worth of financial transac- tions from processing, Durst’s quick response team had properly con- figured the server in question and processed 80,000 transactions. And when a technical issue with a legacy contract-writing system kept mul- tiple installations from executing any contracts, the team quickly identified and fixed the problem. He also played a key role in an effort that will guide the next 10 years of planning and executing business and supporting IT capabilities.
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