Digital Government
Isaiah Joo
This Rising Star is responsible for engaging civil society groups and experts in academia who might have ideas on using technology to advance diplomacy.
Cybersecurity
Damon Bragg
This Rising Star has transformed customer service operations for the Homeland Security Information Network.
Digital Government
Farrell O'Neill Proffitt
This RIVA Solutions vice president used social media monitoring and engagement to transform the Education Department's aid application process.
Acquisition
Cristen Cole
This GSA Rising Star single-handedly provided program management for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation portfolio in its first year.
Cybersecurity
Michael Gross
This IT auditor at USPS helps monitor one of the largest computing infrastructures in the federal government.
Cybersecurity
Kelli Bell
This Rising Star leads the team that is in charge of conducting risk assessments for the Navy's IT systems.
Acquisition
Emily 'Millie' Maksymiuk
This self-taught proposal manager has led teams whose winning proposals have resulted in nearly $16 million in contracts for GovSmart.
Digital Government
Zach Scott
This Rising Star's novel approach to sharing EPA data resulted in an educational game in which participants play various stakeholders in an environmental crisis.
Digital Government
Peter Wilson
This Rising Star has been working on a framework to smoothly connect people with agencies and services as they age and their needs change.
Modernization
Tanusree McCabe
This Blackstone Technology Group manager helped DHS agencies save money by embracing Web content management as a service.
People
Benjamin Rhodeside
This Rising Star was instrumental in building bipartisan support for the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
Modernization
Brent Bensten
This Carpathia CIO developed a hybrid cloud offering for federal agencies that is FedRAMP-compliant.
Modernization
Ngoc Vu
This Rising Star manages a 12-person team that has tackled some of the SEC's biggest IT endeavors.
Cybersecurity
Larissa Riviezzo
This Rising Star's job is to equip U.S. soldiers with biometric-based gear to help them tell friend from foe.
People
Christina Manol
This Rising Star helps the Army's PEO EIS manage $1 billion worth of programs aimed at outfitting soldiers with the latest IT.
Modernization
Shawn Wells
This Rising Star wrote a guide for the Security Content Automation Protocol that opened the door for federal agencies to adopt cloud-based solutions securely.
Cybersecurity