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Ashley Mahan
Director, Secure Cloud Portfolio and FedRAMP, Technology Transformation Services
General Services Administration
Increasing agencies’ cloud cover.
Mahan has made the government’s future much cloudier — in a good way. Under her leadership, GSA has signifi- cantly expanded the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s community. FedRAMP now works with over 150 government entities
and more than 200 industry partners. Thanks to Mahan’s efforts in 2019, FedRAMP had the largest number of authorizations in a single year — a 30% increase over the previous year — and achieved a 50% increase in agencies’ reuse of FedRAMP authorizations.
Her leadership has reduced the level of effort for industry and government partners without sacrificing the secu- rity of federal information.
Brig. Gen. Lorna M.
Mahlock
Assistant Deputy Commandant for Information and Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computers U.S. Marine Corps
Modern networks for leathernecks.
Mahlock is responsible for developing and implementing the vision, policy and compliance for the Marine Corps Enterprise Network, which includes the mandate to modernize and deliver a warfighting network at the tactical edge that will allow Marines to com- pete with the threats outlined in the National Defense Strategy. In 2019, she ushered in long overdue changes to the
framework for network governance and implemented a monthly Network Governance Board to allow stakehold- ers to contribute to risk-informed, transparent decisions with the CIO. She also championed new command relationships for MCEN that will better support Marine Corps Forces Cyber- space Command’s ability to accom- plish its critical mission.
Stacy Marcott
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
and Acting CFO
Department of Homeland Security
Double trouble. DHS has been working on financial modernization for years, but it had several notable successes in 2019. Marcott played an essential role in that progress, and she did it while managing her day-to-day responsibilities as both acting and deputy CFO. Under her guidance, the department went live with the first major component of its new financial system. She also navigated a time of significant leadership churn across
the department, working closely with senior executives at DHS headquarters and across the Transportation Secu- rity Administration, the Coast Guard and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office to prepare them for the next phase of the modernization.
Doc P. McConnell
Cybersecurity Policy Analyst
Office of Management and Budget
The pipeline builder. McConnell was instrumental in the success of the Fed- eral Cybersecurity Reskilling Academy, a first-of-its-kind program to test ways
to retrain federal employees to be cyber defense analysts. He led the first cohort through the program, providing com- munications support to the CIO Council and OMB and managing the process of selecting the 25 best candidates from more than 1,500 applications. The gov- ernment shutdown took place during the application period, creating uncer- tainty about the program’s execution. McConnell successfully navigated those challenges and worked closely with the training provider to develop a revised schedule to complete the program within the required time period.
Danielle Metz
Principal Director for the Deputy CIO for Information Enterprise
Defense Department
Reforming the Fourth Estate. Metz led DOD’s IT reform portfolio for
27 defense agencies and field activi- ties with the goal of modernizing and consolidating efforts while improv-
ing performance and effectiveness. She identified and implemented four reform targets: cloud and data center optimization, network optimization, license consolidation, and DOD-wide enterprise collaboration. Those efforts were fraught with cultural and bureau- cratic obstacles, but Metz built a coali- tion within the affected agencies and gained support at the highest levels of the department. Her sincerity, profes- sionalism and tenacity have been cru- cial to the reform effort’s success.
Ashley Mahan Brig. Gen. Lorna Stacy Marcott Doc P. McConnell Danielle Metz M. Mahlock
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