Clinton Swett - DFAS: Adapt and improvise
In the Marines Corps, leadership style has few nuances. You issue an order. You expect it to be obeyed. But as CIO and director of the Technology Services Organization at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Kansas City, Mo., Clinton Swett has had to modify that one-way-street style of leadership.
Mary Ann Rockey - Navy: Steady ship
In the summer of 2001, the Navy was considering a Web portal through which widely dispersed senior Navy leaders could collaborate and chat. On Sept. 11 that year, the need became urgent, and the job was handed to Mary Ann Rockey.
Defense agencies develop data-sharing standard
The Defense Department and defense agencies from several countries have developed a standard for documenting and sharing configuration information about large systems.<br>
George Reynolds - Trinity County, CA: From the ground up
Officials in Trinity County, Calif., where the discovery of gold in 1848 triggered the California Gold Rush, struck gold of a different sort a century and a half later when they hired George Reynolds. They just didn't know it at the time.
Iomega Rev removable drive stores up to 90G
Iomega hopes the capacity of the Rev will appeal to administrators who dislike tape's retrieval intricacies.<br>
Army taps vendor for assist at logistics center
The Army's Communications and Electronics Command has awarded a $7 million task order to NCI Information Systems Inc. to support the Logistics and Readiness Center.<br>
Robert Otto - Postal Service: Early to rise
Robert L. Otto got his first management training milking dairy cows. Growing up on his family's farm in Fishertown, Pa., Otto rose at 3:30 every morning to help his father milk 200 cows.
Jack Jones - NIH: IT systems pilot
Most everything Jack Jones learned about leadership he learned on the fly, so to speak, in the Navy. As a flight navigator, he participated in a number of simulated emergencies, in which instructors increased the stress level by distracting their students to teach them to focus on the job at hand. The lessons from that training became second nature.
Col. Jacob Haynes - Defense: Mr. Fix-IT
Army Col. Jacob Haynes is a program fix-it man. When he took over as project manager for the Transportation Coordinators' Automated Information for Movement System II in the late 1990s, the program was falling apart.
William Gray - SSA: A two-way street
One measure of William Gray's success at the Social Security Administration can be found in big-picture results, such as system uptime, a proliferation of online services and 'green' ratings from the Office of Management and Budget.
Mary Dixon - Defense: Uncommon success
As the daughter of an Air Force officer, Mary Dixon was born to high expectations. 'I am a driven person, so I am always trying to make things better,' said the program manager of the Defense Department's Common Access Card program.
Donna Bonar - HHS: The system pays
Donna Bonar remembers being closer to the front lines of child support enforcement, working in the paternity division of the Marion County Prosecutor's Office in Indianapolis in the late 1970s.
Managers who put plans into action
GCN Management's Top 10 managers are largely the unsung heroes of government IT management'except to their own managers, peers and staff, who sing their praises. The Top 10 managers were selected from 50 nominees by a panel of 14 current and former federal IT leaders, industry executives and PostNewsweek Tech Media editors. Each profile story (listed below in Management Edition) includes a link to an expanded Q&A with each manager.
Feds catching the next wave in government
Many government managers and specialists in a GCN telephone survey see Web services as the next big wave in government IT.'Web services are the coming thing,' said a Veterans Affairs Department IT specialist in Washington.
ATF makes IT transition to Justice
Marguerite R. Moccia has served as CIO of the same agency at two different Cabinet departments.In February 2002, she was appointed CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the Treasury Department. During the governmentwide reorganization that created the Homeland Security Department, most of ATF's functions were transferred to the renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Justice Department.
DHS awards $350m contract for classified network
Homeland Security has awarded a $350 million contract to Northrop Grumman to build the Homeland Secure Data Network.
SSA taps CACI for IT services deal
The Social Security Administration has negotiated a five-year blanket purchasing agreement with CACI International Inc. to provide IT services.<br>
FBI switches contractors for Trilogy control center
The FBI has chosen DigitalNet Inc. to run an enterprise operations center for the bureau's Trilogy network.<br>
Navy creates $10 billion systems support vehicle
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded 151 systems support contracts that could be worth more than $10 billion jointly.<br>
NSA recruits new team, including techies
The National Security Agency is looking for new employees to meet its changing intelligence needs.<br>
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