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2020 Federal 100
David Rey
President, Global Public Sector
Salesforce
SaaS evangelist. Rey leads a team that has been working with the government’s Centers of Excellence initiative to produce efficiencies and savings through faster case resolution, less legacy system maintenance and substantial workforce optimization. For federal and state agencies, his team has dramatically reduced
the processing time for loan applications, enhanced citizen engagement and improved customer satisfaction. He demonstrated
his company’s commitment to meeting the government’s needs
by pushing Salesforce Government Cloud through both the FedRAMP Medium and FedRAMP High authorization processes. And with his encouragement, the public-sector team completed more than 16,000 hours of volunteer service in the D.C. metro area in 2019.
Maria Roat
CIO
Small Business Administration
Creating capital gains. Roat led a multifaceted modernization effort at SBA that has improved the agency’s cybersecurity position and its Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scores. Under her leadership, SBA became the first agency to create an IT Work- ing Capital Fund and put it into use, which proved crucial to the effort’s success. Instead of having to expend
money in the current fiscal year,
SBA teams can spread their invest- ment over two to three years. That approach facilitates better strategic choices and deployment. In addition, Roat serves on the Technology Mod- ernization Board and is president of the American Council for Technology.
Anthony Robbins
Vice President, Public Sector
NVIDIA
AI ringmaster. Robbins brings together many of the users and stake- holders in the federal artificial intel- ligence arena to demonstrate how the technology can dramatically reduce government spending in a wide range of areas. He is helping agencies move from small proof-of-concept pilot projects to one of the largest deploy- ments at the U.S. Postal Service, which is using AI to speed package sorting. In his role as president of AFCEA’s DC chapter, Robbins has also convened conversations with key players on ethics, standards, manag- ing bias in algorithms and training a new workforce.
Capt. Kurt Rothenhaus
Major Program Manager,Tactical Network Program Office, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
U.S. Navy
C4 at sea. Rothenhaus has dramatically streamlined the work of connecting ships at sea to Navy networks. His efforts resulted
in significant system readiness improvements, fast delivery and a cyber-hardened fleet information warfare platform. To support the Navy’s Compile to Combat in 24 Hours, he built relationships with hundreds of program offices and established commercial-based DevOps processes to accelerate the delivery of warfighter applications. He also increased the affordability
of a $530 million annual investment in tactical networks by supervising a two-year, $150 million expansion and redesign of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program — on time and on budget.
Francisco Salguero
Deputy CIO
Department of Agriculture
Change wrangler. Salguero, who recently moved to the Federal Com- munications Commission as that agency’s CIO, was the linchpin of USDA’s modernization efforts. He realigned the CIO’s office with the department’s modernization plans and embraced the Centers of Excellence program, which designated USDA as a lighthouse agency. He launched five COEs — focusing on cloud adoption, infrastructure optimization, customer experience, data analytics and contact centers — and closed 33 data centers, saving $42.3 million. And he tackled those challenges not long after a mas- sive reorganization that reduced IT leadership from 22 CIOs to one and consolidated 29 agencies into nine mission areas.
David Rey Maria Roat Anthony Robbins Capt. Kurt Rothenhaus
Francisco Salguero
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