An Evening of Honors '23

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The federal government’s roles and missions extend far and wide, including protecting and defending the United States, transforming service delivery, exploring space, gathering weather and climate data, and overseeing massive health and social welfare programs. GovExec has been front-and-center for over fifty years as the government has evolved, misstepped, and achieved. We are excited to honor the people in government and the people partnering with the government to make it all possible. At GovExec’s Evening of Honors Gala on April 20th, FCW and Government Executive will honor the current and former government officials and industry stakeholders who have made historic achievements and advances across government.

2023 Hall of Fame Inductees

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2023 Fed 100 Award Winners

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Director, Special Programs, Technical Integration, and Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Capabilities, Office of the CIO, Department of Defense

Jill F. Anderson

Legislative Affairs Program Manager, Department of Veterans Affairs

Supply Chain Risk Management Technical Expert, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration

Kelley Artz

Associate Director, Interior Business Center, Financial Management Directorate, Department of the Interior

Wendell "Baze" Bazemore

Senior Executive, Joint Enterprise Services Directorate, Defense Information Systems Agency

Caroline G. Bean

Deputy CIO, Department of the Air Force

Winston A. Beauchamp

Product Manager, Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems Program Management Office

Lisa Belter

Deputy IT Government-wide Category Manager, Information Technology Category, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration

Warren J. Blankenship

Area Vice President, North America Public Sector Sales and Strategic Business Development Salesforce

Rob Bohn

Chief Technology Officer, Department of the Air Force

Jay C. Bonci

CIO Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical, Department of the Army

William C. Bridges

Deputy CIO, Office of Personnel Management

Melvin Brown II

President, Cloudera Government Solutions

Robert J. Carey

Vice President and General Manager, Public Sector, Intel

Cameron Chehreh

Senior Materiel Leader, Upper Echelon, U.S. Air Force

Col. Justin K. Collins

CIO, Library of Congress

Judith A. Conklin

CIO, Ginnie Mae

Barbara Cooper-Jones

Senior Professional Staff Member, Majority Staff, Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee

Matthew T. Cornelius

CIO, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security

Robert "Bob" J. Costello

Commandant, Air and Space Warfare Centre, Royal Air Force

Group Capt. J. Blythe Crawford

Executive in Residence, Terranet Ventures

Carole House

Policy Director, Majority Staff, Committee on Oversight and Accountability, U.S. House of Representatives

Christian A. Hoehner

Chief Technology Officer, Cyberspace Capabilities Center, Department of the Air Force

Scott A. Heitmann

Acting Director, Data Center and Cloud Engineering, Office of Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs

Jay Hawkins

President, Center for Open Data Enterprise

Joel Gurin

GVP/GM, Oracle Federal and Canadian Public Sector Application, Oracle

Tamara Greenspan

Former Chief for Cyber Response and Policy, National Security Council

Jeff E. Greene

CDM Deputy Program Manager, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security

Richard A. Grabowski III

Director of Enterprise Information Technology, Office of the CIO, Department of the Air Force

Venice Goodwine

Senior Vice-President, National Security and Justice Business Unit Leader, CGI Federal

Clay Goldwein

Technical Director for Studies and Analysis, Department of the Air Force

Dr. Angela P. Giddings

Associate Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, Central Intelligence Agency

Juliane Gallina

Enterprise Services Technical Director, White House Communications Agency

Robert J. Eisenhauer

Data Scientist, Department of State

Ryan Dukeman

Founder, Dorris Consulting International

Martha Dorris

CIO, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy

Mittal Desai

Federal Chief Information Security Officer and Deputy National Cyber Director for Federal Cybersecurity, Office of Management and Budget

Chris J. DeRusha

Senior Partner and Federal Civilian Sales Leader, IBM

CeCe DeCamp

Satellite Communications Chief for the Deputy CIO for Command, Control and Communications,Department of Defense

Mike Dean

Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Operations for the Information Technology Operations & Services Branch, Office of the CIO

Steve Davis

Head of Contracting Activity, U.S. Cyber Command, National Security Agency

Quentin McCoy

Deputy Director of Cybersecurity for Combat Support, National Security Agency

Major General Lorna Mahlock

Department of Health and Human Services

Renee Lobanovskyy

Director of Data and Analytics Innovation, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Amanda Lienau

Deputy Executive Director, Product Engineering, Office of Information Technology, Product Engineering Services Department of Veterans Affairs

Carrie Lee

Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Fiscal Service, Department of Treasury

Dave Lebryk

President, National Security and Space SectorScience Applications International Corporation

Michael LaRouche

Product Manager, DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code, Hosting and Compute CenterDefense Information Systems Agency

Dave C. Lago

Chief Technology Officer, CACI International

Glenn Kurowski

Director Chief Information Officer, Space Systems Command, U.S. Space Force

Col. Jennifer M. Krolikowski

Chief Compliance Officers, Zscaler

Stephen Kovac

Senior Advisor for Informatics, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health and Human Services

Agha Nabeel Khan

President, Institute for the Study of War

Kimberly Kagan

Program Group Manager, FEDSIM, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration

Anthony Jungers

Acting Executive Director, Enterprise Cloud Services Directorate, Office of Information & Technology , Department of Homeland Security

Mark A. James

Project Director and Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration

Sarah (Sally) F. Jaggar

Executive Director, Office of Artificial Intelligence & Technology, Department of Energy

Pamela K. Isom

National Cyber Director, Executive Office of the President

Chris Inglis

Senior Director of Solutions Engineering, Public Sector, MuleSoft

Shad Imam

Computer Scientist and Principle Investigator, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Gema Howell

Acting CIO for the Office of the Secretary and Senior Advisor to the Secretary Department of Commerce

Zach Schwartz

Deputy CIO, Enterprise Operations and Shared Services Department of Energy

Lynn Payne Schug

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer/Chief Medical Officer The MITRE Corporation

Dr. Jay J. Schnitzer

Chief Information Security Officer Office of Personnel Management

James L. Saunders

Associate Director, Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Department of Homeland Security

Clayton Romans

Strategic Military Advisor / Reserve Advisor Department of the Air Force

Col. Adolph Rocko Rodriguez

Deputy Federal CIO (former) Office of Management and Budget

Maria Roat

Innovation Specialist and Speech Language Pathologist, Cincinnati VA Medical Center Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Lindsay R. Riegler

Director, Category Management Support Office, Executive Sponsor for ADDS UP (Analytics, Data and Decision Support Unified Platform) Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Ernest M. Reed

Director of Participant Services Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board

Tee Ramos

Chief Data Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Department of Homeland Security

Elizabeth Puchek

Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector Amazon Web Services

Max Peterson

CIO, Department of Defense Education Activity Department of Defense

Mark A. Patterson

Chief Acquisition Officer Department of Veterans Affairs

Michael D. Parrish

Chief Data and AI Officer (former) Department of the Air Force

Maj Gen John M. Olson, PhD

Director, Systems Team, Assisted Acquisition Services Program Management Office, Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration

Robert S. Niewood

Vice President and General Manager, Federal Health Sector General Dynamics Information Technology

Kamal Narang

Executive Director, Cargo Systems Program Directorate, Office of Information and Technology, Enterprise Services, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security

Thomas J. Mills

Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, Office of the Federal CIO Office of Management and Budget

Eric R. Mill

Regional Commissioner, Mid-Atlantic Region, Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration

Dena McLaughlin

Project Manager for Mission Support Cost Transparency NASA

Briana Zack

Executive Director, Technology Modernization Fund General Services Administration

Raylene Yung

Chief Technology Officer, Office of Information and Technology Department of Veterans Affairs

Charles Worthington

Chief Experience Officer, Department of the Air Force

Lloyd "Colt" Whittall

Founder Humans of Public Service

Brian Whittaker

Acting Director Office of GSA Acquisition Policy, Integrity, and Workforce General Services Administration

Nicholas West

General Manager, Federal Services Segment Maximus

Teresa A. Weipert

Group Vice President and Chief Strategy Advisor - Public Sector Splunk

Juliana Vida

Program Manager and Senior Advisor for Digital Assets Internal Revenue Service

Trish Turner

Chief People Officer, Office of Information and Technology Department of Veterans Affairs

Nathan Tierney

Project Manager, Defensive Cyber Operations, Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems Department of the Army

Col. Mark M. Taylor

Data Scientist, National Artificial Intelligence Institute, Department of Veterans Affairs

Timothy Strebel

Assistant Commissioner for the Information Technology Category, Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration

Laura J. Stanton

Director of System Configuration and Delivery Automation Division U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Spence Spencer

President, Public Sector SandboxAQ

Jen Sovada

Chief, Enterprise Digitalization Office Internal Revenue Service

Harrison Smith

Program Manager, DoD Healthcare Management System Modernization Defense Health Agency

Kenneth D. Slaughter

Director, Defense Information Systems Agency

Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner

Senior Contracting Officer, Office of Information Technology Category, Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration

Faith V. Shelton

Branch Chief, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Department of Homeland Security

James B. Sheire

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Elizabeth Duke

Thurgood Marshall

David Chu

Barbara Franklin

Sean O’Keefe

Ada Deer

Carla Hayden

Douglas Owsley

David Chu

From 1968 to 1971, Chu served in the Army, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, and rose to the rank of captain. From 1978 to 1981, he was the assistant director of national security and international affairs at the Congressional Budget Office. He then joined the Defense Department as director of program analysis and evaluation. After a stint at RAND Corporation, Chu returned to the Pentagon to serve as undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, where he oversaw military recruitment, career development, pay and benefits and military readiness.

Douglas Owsley

Owsley, the curator of biological anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, has achieved fame through handling numerous high-profile cases of forensic anthropology over the years. These include identifying Jeffrey Dahmer's first victim, excavating the Jamestown Colony, analyzing victims of the siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas, and processing remains of U.S. servicemen killed during Operation Desert Storm. His life story served as the basis for a Discovery Channel documentary.

Sean O'Keefe

A member of the first class of presidential management interns in 1978, O’Keefe went on to serve on the Senate Appropriations Committee staff, followed by a series of high-ranking federal positions, as NASA administrator, deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, secretary of the Navy and chief financial officer of the Defense Department. O’Keefe also has worked in the aerospace industry and currently is a university professor and endowed chair at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Thurgood Marshall

A towering figure in civil rights law, Marshall was an attorney for the NAACP when he successfully argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, which declared school segregation unconstitutional. After serving four years as a federal judge in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, Marshall was named solicitor general of the United States by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Two years later, he was appointed as the first African American Supreme Court justice. Marshall served with distinction on the high court until his retirement in 1991.

Carla Hayden

Hayden is both the first African American and first woman to serve as the Librarian of Congress. She has devoted her career to modernizing libraries, making research collections accessible onsite and online. From 1991 to 1993 she was deputy commissioner and chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library. After that, Hayden was CEO of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, where she created an after-school center for teens offering homework assistance and college and career counseling. During the 2015 protests of the death of Freddie Gray, Hayden courageously kept Baltimore’s libraries open. She was nominated as Librarian of Congress by President Obama in 2016 and became the first professional librarian in the post since 1974.

Barbara Hackman Franklin

Even before serving as Commerce secretary under President George H.W. Bush, Franklin had a distinguished career in government. In 1971, President Nixon tapped her to head an initiative aimed at increasing the appointments of women to high-ranking federal government posts, resulting in nearly quadrupling the number who served in such positions. Franklin was then appointed to head the newly created Consumer Product Safety Commision. There, from 1973 to 1978, she focused on ensuring the safety of products for children. Franklin then served four terms on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. As Commerce secretary, she was instrumental in normalizing trade relations with China, securing $1 billion in contracts for American companies.

Elizabeth Duke

During her lengthy and illustrious federal career, Duke served 10 years at the Office of Personnel Management and worked in senior positions under five different secretaries of the Health and Human Services Department. She spent 12 years in the Office of the Secretary before holding high-ranking posts at the Food and Drug Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Administration for Children and Families. Duke received the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive in 2006. She is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching management and leadership.

Ada Deer

A member of the Menominee Tribe, Deer became the first woman to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs after she was appointed an assistant secretary of the Interior by President Clinton. There, she oversaw policy for more than 550 federally recognized tribes. Before Deer’s service in the executive branch, she worked to restore federal recognition of the Menominee and was the first woman to chair the tribe in Wisconsin. In 1997, she served as chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Thad Allen

Best known as the federal leader who salvaged the Hurricane Katrina response effort in 2005-2006, Allen served for four decades in the United States Coast Guard. His first assignment as a flag officer was as director of resources at Coast Guard headquarters. He went on to head several Coast Guard commands and eventually became the service’s chief of staff. After leading the Katrina response, Allen was appointed commandant of the Coast Guard, serving a four-year term. In 2010, he was named as the incident response commander for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

April 20, 2023 | 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Washington National Cathedral 3101 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington, DC 20016

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Please instruct your driver to use “Open City Cafe at National Cathedral” as the final destination. That will drop you off at the National Cathedral event entrance.

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Both valet and self-parking will be available for the event. Please note that the valet stand will close at 10:30 p.m. following the event. The garage will close at midnight. If you wish to attend the after-party, please either self-park or pick up your keys from valet before going to the after-party.

After Party

The after party will begin at 10:15 p.m. after the dessert reception ends. It will be at Barcelona Wine Bar, 3310 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, just a short walk away from the National Cathedral. Shuttle transportation will also be provided.

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