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Brad Medairy
Executive Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
Creating space for better cyber- security. Medairy leads two of Booz Allen Hamilton’s largest cybersecu- rity implementations as part of the company’s support of the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program. He created Dark Labs, an elite team that blends cyber offense and defense into new solutions, and in 2020, his team was on the front lines of secur- ing health IT vulnerabilities that arose during the pandemic. Medairy is
also committed to growing a diverse employee base and has led the com- pany’s Cyber Technical Excellence program, which seeks to have women and minorities account for more than 54% of its graduates.
Travis Methvin
Project Manager, Naval Commercial Cloud Services
Department of the Navy
Expanding the cloud. Methvin has greatly expanded access to commer- cial cloud solutions for the Navy and Marine Corps by creating a digital marketplace that now offers solutions from 30 providers and allows person- nel to evaluate options and compare costs. Thanks to Methvin’s efforts,
the marketplace has spurred a 400% increase in adoption of commercial cloud services across participating agencies; helped the Navy become the first service to transition to cloud- based enterprise resource planning products, which process more than
$70 billion in annual transactions; and enabled the Fleet Numerical Meteorol- ogy and Oceanography Center to col- lect hurricane data in real time while significantly reducing costs.
Col. Robert J. Mikesh
IT Lead, Operation Warp Speed
Defense Department
Three hats, one mission. In May 2020, Mikesh was selected to join Operation Warp Speed, the White House’s national program to acceler- ate the development, manufacture and distribution of COVID-19 vac- cines, therapeutics and diagnostics. As the IT component’s leader, he was responsible for developing logistics systems to ensure that vaccine orders were received, shipped and tracked. He developed an IT infrastructure that integrated data streams from federal entities, states, localities, vaccine manufacturers, logistics companies and others to create a unified tool. In addition, his expert use of other trans- action authorities enabled new capa- bilities, including the Army Vantage platform that empowered command- ers to make data-driven decisions dur- ing the pandemic.
Christina Monaco
Chief Ventures Officer
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Blazing a path for new partners.
Monaco led market research, risk reduction and the adoption of new acquisition methods to advance NGA’s mission imperatives. The capabilities she developed are helping NGA imple- ment lean, agile and design-thinking
strategies and adopt nontraditional approaches to acquisition. Teaming with NGA’s CTO, she developed prob- lem statements that enable new sup- pliers to better target their solutions to NGA’s needs. She balanced bold initiatives with sound risk manage- ment to earn the support of NGA and intelligence community leaders. In addition, Monaco helped other agen- cies by assisting with the creation of the new Innovation Hub at the Cyber- security and Infrastructure Security Agency. She is now vice president of programs at the U.S. Geospatial Intel- ligence Foundation.
Mark F. Newsome
Partner, Veterans Affairs and Defense Health
IBM Global Business Services
Supporting those who’ve served.
As IBM’s lead client partner for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Agency, Newsome was instrumental in bringing intel- ligent automation and multi-cloud solutions to essential federal health missions. In 2020, he led efforts to improve the VA’s claims processing for veterans, fraud detection and asset management — freeing up precious resources for COVID-19 response. He also helped DHA deploy its Defense Healthcare Management Systems in the cloud at security Impact Level
5 and championed the delivery of internet-of-things services for tracking assets at several VA medical centers.
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