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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.

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Online news updates and headlines

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

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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.

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Living NOAA's Second Life

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

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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.

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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.

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Federal 100 winner: Glenn Perry

Perry, Education Department senior procurement executive, bridged the CIO Council and Chief Acquisition Officers Council, helping the two bodies understand each other’s expertise.

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Federal 100 winner: Sue Dowling

Despite Dowling’s wide range of responsibilities for Data Networks’ federal and state government customers, she still finds time to support key industry activities.

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Federal 100 winner: Eric Hackathorn

Hackathorn built NOAA's presence in virtual worlds by creating its Meteora Island in Second Life, which allows NOAA to globally broadcast its work.

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Federal 100 winner: Lloyd Thrower

Developing an enterprise architecture for an organization as complex as the Defense Department isn't easy. So the DOD CIO's office has been fortunate to have Thrower, who is the director of strategic planning and policy, on board.

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Federal 100 winner: Vish Sankaran

Sankaran helped lay the foundation for the transformation of the U.S. health care system.

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Federal 100 winner: Allan Burman

Burman, president of Jefferson Solutions, is leading an ongoing series of discussions, sponsored by George Mason University and the IBM Center for the Business of Government, on improving federal procurements.

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Federal 100 winner: Mark Seager

As director of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, Seager launched a partnership between the federal government and the private sector that led to the Hyperion Collaboration, a first-of-its-kind consortium that provides a test bed for high-performance computing.

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Federal 100 winner: Ellen Brown

Brown convinced House and Senate committees to revise acquisition reform proposals by drawing on her knowledge of the procurement system.

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Federal 100 winner: Stu Shea

Shea, head of Science Applications International Corp.'s Intelligence, Security and Technology Group, founded the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and the GEOINT Symposium to bring people who work in geospatial intelligence together and promote the GEOINT trade.

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Federal 100 winner: Joseph Camacho

Joseph Camacho, program director for the U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability, was the driving force behind a revamping of training capabilities.

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Federal 100 winner: Lt. Col. Kenneth Fritzsche

Modernizing a portal that is used by more than 2.1 million military personnel isn't easy; saving $34 million in the process is even more impressive. Fritzsche saw that the upgrade of the Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online portal was carried out a secure and seamless manner.

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Fed 100 winner: Emory Miller

Miller spearheaded a study that proposed ground-breaking legislative and policy changes that could yield better results from federal programs.

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Federal 100 winner: Tim Young

Young served as former deputy administrator for e-government and information technology in the Bush administration until 2008.