Digital Government

Federal 100 winner: Earl Stafford

Stafford, former chairman and CEO of Universal Systems and Technology Inc., founded the company in 1988 after a career in the Air Force. Recently acquired by Lockheed Martin Corp., Unitech has grown from a small professional services firm into a provider of robust business and technical solutions.

Modernization

Federal 100 winner: Byron Adams

Adams led a team that proposed a money-saving, performance-enhancing consolidation of IT resources across all the U.S. military services in Guam.

People

Federal 100 winner: Kenneth Allen

ACT/IAC Executive Director Kenneth Allen has worked tirelessly to expand the organization and the programs it offers the government IT community, creating new standards of excellence.

Cybersecurity

Federal 100 winner: Luke McCormack

As chief information officer, McCormack directed a comprehensive IT modernization strategy for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and partnered with other Homeland Security Department components and state and local law enforcement to develop the Law Enforcement Information-Sharing Program ahead of schedule.

People

As easy as pushing a button

Ray Boyd's mandate to get emerging technology to DOD faster led to the creation of Techipedia, a successful example of the government's use of Web 2.0 tools.

Modernization

Federal 100 winner: Michael Ryan

Ryan, deputy program director of the Army's Signal Warfare Programs, is responsible for the implementation of Signals Warfare programs.

Modernization

Federal 100 winner: Dennis Lucey

Dennis Lucey, vice president of TKC Global, has been active in the federal IT market for more than 40 years, creating partnerships with numerous government organizations.

Modernization

Federal 100 winner: Donna Roy

As director of DHS' Enterprise Data Management Office, Roy worked with chief information officers and interagency working groups to get datasets to comply with the National Information Exchange Model so they could be shared across programs.

People

Living NOAA's Second Life

Hackathorn is in charge of NOAA's Virtual World program and has found creative uses for the technology.

Digital Government

Federal 100 winner: John Brosnan

Brosnan helped stop or temper several potentially damaging acquisition-related provisions that had been included in the fiscal 2009 National Defense Authorization Act.

People

Federal 100 winner: Brock Lending

Lending, Compusearch Software Systems chief technology officer, was a clear voice for the procurement community as officials on the Integrated Acquisition Environment Roundtable developed the Financial Systems Integration Office’s Acquisition System Requirements.

Digital Government

The 2009 Federal 100 awards panel of judges

The following judges donated their expertise, energy and time in the selection process for this year's Federal 100 Awards.

People

Online news updates and headlines

Vivek Kundra has returned to work as the federal chief information officer.

People

Federal 100 winner: Col. Debra Rose

Rose oversaw the creation of a secure wireless network that the South Carolina National Guard can use during emergencies.

People

Federal 100 winner: Karen Pica

Pica led the creation of a continuous learning management module to allow agencies to track employees' certifications.

Cybersecurity

Federal 100 winner: Robert Childs

Childs, senior director of the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University, has led several innovative IT teaching programs.

Digital Government

No Bonuses for Field Docs

As far as I can determine the reason the taxpayers - that's you and I - have to fund $165 million in bonuses for employees of AIG Financial Products is they came up with the ideas a few years back to create trillions of dollars worth of arcane and cockamamie financial products known as credit default swaps.

Ideas

In Search of IT Workers

Agencies routinely say it needs information technology specialists, and with initiatives to follow stimulus spending and to make government more transparent, the need for technologists will only increase. Earl Devaney, Obama's stimulus watchdog, <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090319_7366.php">lamented</a> on Thursday while testifying on the Hill about the IT challenges he faces.

Cybersecurity

Obama picks Guthrie for ODNI CIO

Priscilla Guthrie served as the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer from 2001 to 2006.

People

Obama names national health IT coordinator

Physician David Blumenthal will lead HHS efforts to direct spending of $19.5 billion in economic stimulus funds for health IT to advance implementation of the nationwide health information infrastructure.