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David J. Berteau
President and CEO
Professional Services Council
Relentless ally. The head of PSC since 2019, Berteau has been helping the federal government work through big issues for decades. Last year, he led his association’s efforts to help reopen the government after the par- tial shutdown and actively pursued reimbursement for small-business contractors that were negatively affected by it, resulting in changes to the policy for paying those contrac- tors. He also supported the first entrants in the Defense Department’s Public-Private Talent Exchange Pro- gram and helped create an indepen- dent accreditation body for DOD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certifi- cation program.
Alexis Bonnell
Chief Innovation Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development
Innovation at scale. Bonnell has been with USAID for nearly a decade and has been a champion of innova- tion throughout that time. She was a founding member of the U.S. Global Development Lab, which works inside the agency and with global partners to source, test and scale new develop- ment solutions. After being promoted to chief innovation officer in Novem- ber 2018, Bonnell spent last year
working on cementing USAID’s cul- ture of innovation and — through the Federal Innovation Council and other channels — helping agencies across government share solutions, policies and processes to do the same.
Tom Brandt
Chief Risk Officer
IRS
The risk (management) taker.
Brandt led the Association for Fed- eral Enterprise Risk Management for much of 2019 — a role from which he pushed the community to explore the use of artificial intelligence tools such as machine learning and robotic pro- cess automation. His leadership has encouraged agencies to begin experi- menting with a host of 21st-century technologies. “His main role...was
to really move the risk management community and government forward in terms of its understanding of and use of and adoption of emerging tech- nologies to advance the state of the art in enterprise risk management,” said Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government.
Col. Jason Brown
Director, Chief of Staff of the Air Force Strategic Studies Group
U.S. Air Force
Blue sky thinking. Brown is known for taking on groundbreaking initia- tives. He manages a $70 million fund that is developing strategic partner- ships between the Air Force and small businesses and startups to find
creative commercial solutions to the service’s challenges. But one of his biggest achievements has been chang- ing how the service, and the Defense Department at large, uses artificial intelligence. In 2019, Brown helped establish the Air Force’s AI Accelera- tor at MIT and serves as the lead Air Force representative to the Joint AI Center, where he led the Humanitari- an Assistance/Disaster Relief National Mission Initiative.
Jordan Burris
Chief of Staff, Office of the Federal CIO
Office of Management and Budget
A force for FICAM. Burris joined the White House in 2017 as a consul- tant, but he was moved by the mis- sion and wanted to contribute more directly. In 2019, he was OMB’s lead on Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management implementation and involved in policies for protecting high-value assets and advancing the Trusted Internet Connections frame- work. His colleagues also praise his talents as a mentor, a label that makes Burris a bit uncomfortable but seems spot-on. “Whenever I’m meeting any- one,” he told FCW, “my number one thing is to make sure they are getting the most out of their careers or what they want to do.”
David J. Berteau
Alexis Bonnell
Tom Brandt Col. Jason Jordan Burris Brown
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