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Lt. Col. Marc Snoddy
Commander of 33rd Network Warfare Squadron
U.S. Air Force
Cyber wingman. Protecting the
1 million users of the Air Force’s unclassified and classified networks isn’t easy, but Snoddy made the job more efficient by overhauling the ser- vice’s cyber defense program in 2018. He deployed the Automated Reme- diation and Asset Discovery system, which allows for real-time forensic analysis of cyber incidents. Now sus- picious endpoints are automatically quarantined and investigated, cutting response times from months to hours. Plus, the technology opens possibili- ties for additional innovation. Col- leagues say that thanks to Snoddy’s efforts, the Air Force’s cyber defense program is seen as the gold standard in the Defense Department.
Kevin W. Tate
Enterprise Collaboration and Productivity Services Lead, Office of the CIO
Defense Department
The bridge builder. Tate is deft at balancing the sometimes competing interests of defense and IT. He led the business analysis for DOD’s first software-as-a-service federated cloud — the Enterprise Collaboration and Productivity Solution — to provide standardized capabilities, data trans- fers and access across organizations. Colleagues say he has a collaborative personality that allows him to build
bridges between people and solutions. Roger Thorstenson, director of DOD Information Network moderniza-
tion, called Tate “the primary person who maintains the big picture over the entire effort and all of its moving parts despite the waves of personnel changes.”
Paul Tatum
Senior Vice President of Solution Engineering
Salesforce
The performance booster. As agen- cies work to achieve IT modernization goals, Tatum is helping them deploy technologies such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, chatbots and software as a service. Last year, he helped a civilian agency design and deploy a portal that supports self- service access to loan applications and status inquiries for 10,000 users
in 2,100 offices. He also worked with the U.S. Postal Service, the Gen-
eral Services Administration and the departments of Agriculture, State and Veterans Affairs. Tatum’s customers have realized $5 million to $25 million in cost savings as a result of replacing legacy technology with modern tools.
Mark Testoni
CEO
SAP National Security Services
Giving back by upskilling veter- ans. As head of SAP’s subsidiary focused on U.S. defense and intel- ligence customers, Testoni has a
hand in some of the government’s most challenging data-driven initia- tives. But an independent nonprofit organization launched and supported by Testoni and SAP called NS2 Serves might have an even greater impact on the federal IT community. NS2 Serves provides a fully funded intensive technology training and employment program for post-9/11 military service veterans and Gold Star spouses. By the end of 2018, nearly 250 people had graduated from the program, and all of them had received job offers.
Randel Torfin
Head, Engineering Maintenance Management Branch, Military Sealift Command
Department of the Navy
Ship-shape data. Flooded with decades of unstructured maintenance data on over 100 ships, the Navy’s Military Sealift Command couldn’t easily tap into that data to inform decisions. Working with the artifi-
cial intelligence experts at Abeyon, Torfin and his team built an AI-based text-analysis tool that pulled context and patterns from Word documents
to turn nearly 30 years’ worth of data into a decision-making engine for ship maintenance. The technology learns as it works so that it can guide recom- mendations on equipment health and potential for failure. Thanks to Tor- fin’s efforts, officials can now predict problems and preempt them.
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