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Rising Star John Araujo
Araujo provided IT analysis and support for CDC’s public health initiatives. An expert in public health informatics, he supports both the Office of the Chief Science Officer and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Modernization
Rising Star Don Gunnell
Gunnell spearheaded the procurement and deployment of a wireless network to handle voice, video and data at Twentynine Palms’ massive testing ground. The wireless reach-back system is likely to be replicated at all Navy and Marine Corps ranges, including locations in Iraq.
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Rising Star Maj. Samuel Abbott-McCune
Abbott-McCune revamped a network laboratory used in IT training, running more than 2 miles of cable, rack mounting 50 pieces of equipment, and creating several cable patch bays so that equipment could be interconnected without moving. He also supervises quality control of 500 classrooms at 15 different locations.
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Rising Star Vanessa Leigh Manchester
Manchester coordinated the efforts of more than 20 federal agencies as they link their existing health IT systems to the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network via the Connect gateway.
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Rising Star Heather Blackwell
Blackwell led the modernization of the Air Force’s $600 million inventory of theater command and control and air control communications systems. Using a portfolio management approach, she successfully made the case for a $30 million budget increase to improve communications in counterinsurgency and humanitarian relief operations.
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Rising Star Jason Khan
Khan assisted federal agencies with the adoption of open-source software, Web 2.0 tools, cloud computing and other leading-edge technology. He also has worked on a number of cross-agency lines of business programs, including grants and financial management, IT infrastructure and information security.
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Rising Star Joseph Arthur Rhodes
Rhodes planned and coordinated the construction of a facility at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to support the deployment of the Movement Tracking System, which tracks the location of logistic vehicles and their content.
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Rising Star Genen Soo-Hoo
Soo-Hoo gave a new face to NYPD's Crime Stopper program by developing a multimedia-enabled "Submit a Tip" Web site.
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Rising Star John Collier
Collier designed and developed an advanced multi-intelligence analyst system. He came up with a design that could fit on a couple of laptops or be scaled to a system that involves hundreds of systems.
Modernization
Recommended Reading: Michael Jackson, botnets and digital democracy
The 12 holy sites of IT; Measuring emotion in cyberspace; A toolkit for retooling democracy; Botnets: Be scared, very scared
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DOD health records project hinges on security
Electronic records could lead to a faster, more flexible and more cost-effective system.
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Exploding the data storage myth
People who say we should save everything because data storage is cheap are talking nonsense.
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Mobile data poses security risk
Multiple types of removable media and devices hold sensitive government information, and each presents its own security risks.
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Former EPA IT official O'Neill lands job at CGI
Molly O'Neill, a chief information officer in an office in the Environmental Protection Agency, has accepted a job with CGI Group.
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DISA, GSA detail $5 billion satellite pact
A new satellite contract that the General Services Administration and the Defense Information Systems Agency are entering into will offer a $5 billion, 10-year multiple award schedule and indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity terms.
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DOD to review use of social-media technology
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn orders a review to detail the threats and benefits from using social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Astronaut sends Tweets from space
An Army officer is the first to post Twitter feeds from the International Space Station, NASA notes.
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Agencies get creative to recruit acquisition workforce
Administration officials say new ideas are being tried to expand the acquisition workforce.
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