Federal 100: J. Eric Markland
Name: J. Eric Markland
Title: Director of Ashore Modernization and Integration
Navy Information Dominance Forces
Agency: Department of the Navy
The JIE realist. Markland is one of the people taking the Joint Information Environment, a Defense Department-wide initiative to standardize IT security, from abstraction to reality. He made sure security needs were considered in the process of moving the Navy's intranet to the Next Generation Enterprise Network, one of the steps on the road to JIE, and led the team that created a framework for managing NGEN service operations. His success might have something to do with what one colleague describes as an "infectious enthusiasm."