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2021 FEDERAL 100
FEDERAL 100 JUDGES
FCW receives hundreds of nominations for the Federal 100 awards, and an independent panel of judges reviews every one to identify the most worthy winners each year.The
experts, almost all of them past winners themselves, are the Federal 100’s “secret sauce,” and FCW is grateful for their time and expertise.This year’s panel is profiled below.
Daniel J. Chenok
Executive Director
IBM Center for the Business of Government
At IBM, Chenok combines his deep knowledge of how gov- ernment works with his busi- ness experience in the private sector. He started his career in government as branch chief for information policy and technol- ogy at the Office of Manage- ment and Budget and moved to the private sector in 2003. A three-time Federal 100 award winner, Chenok was FCW’s industry Eagle award winner
in 2016.
Kevin Cox
Deputy CIO
Department of Justice
Until this summer, Cox was program manager for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. In that role, he oversaw CDM’s ongoing evolution to help agencies better identify their networks, assets and data and protect them in near-real time against growing cybersecurity threats. Cox has been a Federal 100 winner twice — once while leading the CDM program and once during a previous stint at the Justice Department.
Lesley Field
Acting Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy Office of Management and Budget
A career civil servant who became the deputy adminis- trator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in 2008, Field has now assumed the top job in an acting capacity five times — serving longer as OFPP administrator than most of those formally appointed and confirmed for the job. In both of those roles, Field has worked to shape government- wide policy and support the roughly 40,000 contracting officers across the federal gov- ernment. A two-time Federal 100 winner, Field received the President’s Award in 2017.
Maria Roat
Deputy Federal CIO
Office of Management and Budget
Roat served 26 years in the Navy at the beginning of her career, retiring as a master chief petty officer, information systems technician. Her sub- sequent roles have included director of the FedRAMP Program at the Department
of Homeland Security, CTO at theTransportation Department and CIO at the Small Busi-
ness Administration. She was named deputy federal CIO in May 2020. A longtime advocate for cross-government IT collab- oration, Roat twice won Federal 100 awards while at SBA.
David M. Wennergren
CEO
ACT-IAC
Wennergren, who won FCW’s government Eagle award in 2007, has served as chairman of Federal 100 judging several times. He moved to the private sector in 2013 and now leads ACT-IAC, the nonprofit public/ private partnership dedicated to advancing the business of government through the appli- cation of technology. His long career at the Defense Depart- ment includes serving as DOD’s deputy CIO and the Depart- ment of the Navy’s CIO. He is a three-time Federal 100 winner and past vice chairman of the federal CIO Council.
MG Garrett S. Yee
Assistant to the Director, Defense Information Systems Agency
Department of Defense
As the second-highest ranking official at DISA, Yee helps lead a global organization of 8,000 military and civilian personnel who plan, develop, deliver and operate joint, interoperable command and control capa- bilities and a global enterprise infrastructure. Previously, he served as the military deputy to the Army CIO and senior information security officer in the Department of the Army’s Office of the CIO at the Penta- gon.Yee was a 2015 Federal 100 winner.
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Lauren Knausenberger
CIO
Department of the Air Force
As CIO for both the Air Force and Space Force, Knausenberg- er leads two directorates, sup- ports 20,000 cyber operations and support personnel world- wide, and oversees a portfo-
lio valued at $17 billion. She joined the department in 2017 as the chief transformation offi- cer and director of cyberspace innovation to speed the adop- tion of emerging technologies. She became deputy CIO in August 2020 and assumed the CIO role in February 2021.































































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