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Thomas “Pat” Flanders
Deputy Assistant Director for Information Operations and CIO
Defense Health Agency
Cost warrior. Faced with the chal- lenge of managing the technology costs associated with the centraliza- tion of medical care facilities under DHA, Flanders developed a custom web-based tool called Ektropy that tracks technology costs, contracts, workforce and programs. It encom- passes more than 10,000 personnel and almost $2 billion in IT budget. The system, which is designed so that even non-experts can use it, allows for centralized planning, financial transparency and the elimination of redundancies across the enterprise. Ektropy also supports Flanders’ goal of developing an army of IT “cost warriors” who place a high priority on personal and financial accountability within an IT organization.
Emily Frye
Director for Cyber Integration
MITRE
Seeing through misinformation.
Frye led the development of MITRE’s Social See Something, Say Something, or SQUINT — a free application that election officials can use to report and correct misinformation on social media that could keep registered vot- ers from the polls. Developed in just four months, SQUINT was deployed to 250 jurisdictions, eight nonprofit organizations and 13 states during the 2020 elections. Frye is also respon- sible for establishing the National
Election Security Lab, which pro- duces election analyses to help states manage risk. The Georgia Office of the Secretary of State relied on the lab’s work to support the integrity of the state’s election process.
Rebecca Gevalt
Managing Director, Tech Programs
Dcode
Reimagining the accelerator.
Gevalt leads the technology accelera- tor that brings emerging technologies to the federal government. In 2020, she spearheaded Dcode’s move to rolling admissions and platform-based delivery to give federal agencies an even larger portfolio of vetted tech- nology. Her efforts to accelerate over 100 companies have driven more than 200 new implementations of com- mercial technology in government. In one case, Dcode helped military bases meet the need for frictionless entry during the pandemic by facilitating the fast adoption of facial recognition technology. Gevalt also leads Dcode Capital, an invitation-only network of investors.
Joe Gioeli
CIO and Assistant Commissioner for Information and Security Services, Bureau of the Fiscal Service Treasury Department
Protecting pandemic relief pay- ments. Gioeli led the development of a critical component of the secure delivery of economic impact pay- ments to Americans during the pan- demic: the Treasury Check Verifica-
tion Service. TCVS, which is available via a website and a robust applica- tion programming interface, reduces the potential for fraud and improper payments of Treasury-issued checks at financial institutions. Under his leadership, the app was created and deployed in just three weeks using DevSecOps best practices and a proven architectural development pattern. TCVS has validated over 19 million checks at 600 financial institu- tions, and it owes much of its success to Gioeli’s ability to broker strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.
Venice Goodwine
Chief Information Security Officer
Agriculture Department
A smarter approach to ATOs.
Goodwine is driven to make cyberse- curity accreditation better, faster and smarter by ensuring that it delivers ongoing defense rather than settling for technical compliance. She was the first CISO at a federal agency outside the Defense Department to adopt Fast Track Authority to Operate and continuous ATO principles to stream- line the acquisition process. In 2020, Goodwine pushed USDA even beyond some of DOD’s early adopters. She has since taken that security mindset to the Air Force, where she is now director of enterprise IT.
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