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the Gala
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
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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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Parking
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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