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Beth Anne B. Killoran
Deputy CIO
General Services Administration
The customer advocate. Killoran has a history of helping her colleagues in a crisis. At the Treasury Depart- ment in 1995, she created workspaces for U.S. Customs personnel whose offices were destroyed in the Okla- homa City bombing, and several years later, she provided support after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Now her 25 years of experience are helping to advance key GSA objectives: improv- ing customer service, accelerating
IT modernization, implementing the President’s Management Agenda and GSA’s Technology Modernization Fund, expanding shared services,
and achieving the objectives of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform and Federal Information Security Manage- ment acts.
Col. Robert King
Senior Materiel Leader, Enterprise IT and Cyber Infrastructure Division
U.S. Air Force
Truly enterprise IT. King has guided his division as it grew from a $3.9 billion budget and 600 employees to an organization with a $6.9 billion budget and more than 900 employ- ees. He oversaw the division’s $700 million CloudOne project, consoli- dated 14 data centers down to two and moved the organization toward a zero-trust security architecture. When the National Defense Authorization Act established a new military branch — the Space Force — King helped
transition more than 55,000 personnel to their new service designation in the Global Address List within 10 days of the legislation’s passage.
Mike J. Kirkland
Senior Vice President, Offerings and Solutions Development
Perspecta
Jump-starter in chief. Kirkland runs Perspecta’s research and development portfolio, which involves identifying and developing technology at least
18 months ahead of the government’s most difficult challenges. His team played a critical role in implement- ing machine learning and advanced analytics to improve methods, processes and systems for federal background investigations and reduce a 200,000-case backlog. Kirkland and his colleagues also prototyped a solu- tion for a large Defense Department agency that combined robotic process automation with structured systems engineering to streamline operations, security and execution. At scale, the solution frees employees to focus on higher-priority tasks and saves mil- lions of dollars.
Stephen R. Kovac
Vice President of Global Government and Head of Corporate Compliance
Zscaler
Making security TIC. Kovac relent- lessly works to remove roadblocks
to federal cloud adoption by raising awareness and educating policymak- ers and IT leaders about opportunities for improvement. He is among the
industry’s most vocal advocates for reforming the Trusted Internet Con- nections program to take advantage of cloud technologies and enable secure connectivity. He proposed moving TIC from the perimeter to
the cloud in the form of a FedRAMP- certified TIC-in-the-Cloud. He was also instrumental in developing a FedRAMP-authorized zero-trust cloud service to allow agencies to create fast, secure connections between users and applications regardless of device, location or network.
Chris Krebs
Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Department of Homeland Security
The diplomat. Krebs is a rare leader who receives a high level of praise from Congress, the private sector and agencies at the federal, state and local levels. He has presided over
a transformation in the previously hostile relationship between DHS
and state and local officials regarding election security, established a beach- head presence in protecting critical infrastructure and opened up the lines of communication between DHS and the broader public. Under his watch, CISA has gone from being a secretive organization that was an afterthought in the information security commu- nity to being regarded as one of the government’s premier cybersecurity agencies.
Beth Anne B. Killoran
Mike J. Kirkland
Stephen R. Chris Krebs Kovac
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