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Col. Bobby Saxon
CTO, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services
Health care curator. Saxon oversees the applications and infrastructure behind HealthCare.gov, which is in the process of moving more than 20 IT applications and related data to
the cloud. The transition is a tricky proposition given the complex mix
of stakeholders behind HealthCare. gov, but Saxon has gracefully man- aged the three-stage process behind the move and demonstrated an ability to respond quickly to any issues that arise. Thanks to his efforts, the health insurance site will have increased capacity around peak enrollment periods, and CMS will save money by consolidating three data centers into a single cloud-based solution.
Jonathan W. Scholl
President
Leidos Health Group
Reimagining health IT. Scholl leads the ninth-largest health IT company in the U.S., and his responsibilities encompass the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, which is spearhead- ing the $4.3 billion electronic health record program known as MHS Gen- esis. In 2018, Scholl’s team advanced a number of other critical programs. The Decision Ready Claims process at the Department of Veterans Affairs, for example, is now delivering deci-
sions in less than nine days instead of 120. Scholl is also steering efforts to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tackle the opioid epi- demic, limit the spread of HIV/AIDS and use data analytics to improve health care outcomes.
Maj. Gen. Robert Skinner
Commander, 24th Air Force
Air Force
AFCYBER’s IT general. The military is now deep enough into the Digital Age that a flag officer could have risen through the ranks with an IT emphasis at every step. Skinner, who graduated with a computer science degree three decades ago, is a prime example. As the Air Force’s top cyber leader, he drove several critical initia- tives in 2018, including the AFCYBER Insider Threat Program, the 33rd Network Warfare Squadron’s embrace of agile defensive cyberspace opera- tions, and a series of groundbreaking cyber hunt missions across the U.S. military’s logistics and airpower bases in South Korea.
Chérie A. Smith
Program Executive Officer for Enterprise Information Systems
Department of the Army
The Army’s IT disruptor. Smith is one of the key leaders of the Army’s efforts to transform its IT and busi- ness systems. She oversees 37 prod- uct offices, 71 acquisition programs and 3,000 personnel and has led
initiatives to modernize the way the Army handles talent and stakeholder management and network integration. Brendan Burke, the Army’s deputy PEO-EIS, calls Smith “a known dis- ruptor, with a sharp focus on innova- tion and the bottom line.” Last year, Smith also opened the Defensive Cyber Operations’ “Forge” facility
so partners from academia and industry could collaborate with the Army on emerging technology and cyberthreats.
Kevin Smith
CIO, Census Bureau
Commerce Department
Population data protector. Smith is in charge of managing the Cen-
sus Bureau’s vast trove of data and making sure personal information is kept secure during the 2020 decen- nial census, which promises to be the highest-tech population count ever. To ensure confidence in the privacy of people’s responses and encour- age participation, Smith worked across multiple agencies to establish a trusted internet connection so that census responses will go directly to the cloud. He also created a high- performance data lake to enable real- time analysis on census information as it is collected.
Col. Bobby Saxon
Jonathan W. Maj. Gen. Chérie A. Smith Kevin Smith Scholl Robert Skinner
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