GCN executives of the year

2005
Jim Williams, project manager for the Homeland Security Department’s U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program
Dave Wenngeren, Navy Department CIO

2004
Dawn C. Meyerriecks, Defense Information Systems Agency chief technology officer
Kim Nelson, Environmental Protection Agency CIO

2003
Lt. Gen. Steven Boutelle, Army CIO
Steven Cooper, Homeland Security Department CIO

2002
(This year’s awards honored the top government executives of the previous 20 years)
Former Rep. Jack Brooks
Army Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige Jr., Ret.

2001
Joseph R. Cipriano, Navy program executive officer for IT and enterprise acquisition
Jackie Fletcher, Mint associate director and CIO

2000
David Borland, Army vice director of Information Systems C4 James J. Jasinski, program manager of the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System

1999
Kathleen N. Adams, Social Security Administration assistant deputy commissioner
Marvin Langston, Defense deputy CIO

1998
Navy Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, president of the Naval War College
Anne F. Thompson Reed, Agriculture Department CIO

1997
Army Lt. Gen. Douglas D. Buchholz, Joint Chiefs of Staff director of C4 Systems
Frank P. Pugliese Jr., Federal Supply Service commissioner

1996
Navy Rear Adm. John A. Gauss. Defense Information Systems Agency deputy director
Stephen Meltzer, Federal Computer Acquisition Center director

1995
Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), speaker of the House of Representatives

1994
Cynthia Kendall, deputy assistant Defense secretary
Henry H. Philcox, IRS CIO

1993
Renato A. DiPentima, Social Security Administration deputy commissioner for systems
Army Lt. Gen. Alonzo Short, Defense Information Systems General Services Agency director

1992
Paul A. Strassmann, director of Defense Information

1991
Richard G. Austin, administrator of the General Services Administration

1990
Donald J. Atwood, deputy secretary of Defense

1989
Army Lt. Gen. John T. Myers, director of the Defense Communications Agency

1988
Joseph R. Wright Jr., director of the Office of Management and Budget

1987
Rear Adm. Harry S. Quast, director IRM

1986
Rep. Frank Horton, (R-N.Y.) House Government Operations Committee ranking minority member
Donald C. Latham, assistant secretary of Defense for 3CI

1985
James H. Burrows, director of the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
Rep. Charlie Rose (D-N.C.)
Joseph R. Wright, Office of Management and Budget deputy director

1984
Ralph Bledsoe, special assistant to the president, White House Office of Policy Development
Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas), chairman of the House Government Operations Committee
Frank J. Carr, commissioner of the General Services Administration’s IRM Service