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Celebrating 25 Years

25 and counting

A quarter-century of innovation that changed the way government works and how people live

By GCN Staff

As GCN celebrates its silver anniversary, we decided to ask some of the people involved: feds, former feds and industry leaders whose work, whether on a grand scale or in the details, has helped push the ball forward. Here are their expanded, unabridged answers to our key questions:
  • What technology had the biggest impact on your work in, or the work of, government in the last 25 years?
  • What individual had the biggest impact on your work in the government — or the work of government?
  • What information technology product(s) had the biggest impact on your work in, or the government of, government?
  • What event or government IT decision had the biggest impact for the better? Or for worse?
  • What technology do you think will have the biggest impact over the next five years?

Zal Azmi - FBI chief information officer
Mimi Browning - Browning Consulting Group LLC president and former principal director of enterprise integration in the Army CIO Office
Robert J. Carey - Department of the Navy chief information officer
Marine Gen. James Cartwright - Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman
John Chambers - Cisco Systems chairman and chief executive officer
Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Croom - Defense Information Systems Agency director and commander of the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations
Karen Evans - Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and IT
Ira Hobbs - Hobbs & Hobbs principal and former CIO of the Treasury Department
John Johnson - General Services Administration assistant commissioner of the Integrated Technology Services Organization
Mark Johnson - Oracle Public Sector senior vice president
Steven Kelman - Harvard University Kennedy School of Government professor of public management, and former administrator of the Office of federal Procurement Policy
J.F. Mergen - Verizon Federal Network Systems chief technology officer
Brand Niemann - Environmental Protection Agency senior enterprise architect and chairman of the Federal CIO Council Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
Kim Nelson - Microsoft Public Sector director of e-Government and Health and Human Services and former Environmental Protection Agency CIO
Alan Paller - SANS Institute research director
M.J. Pizzella - Google Enterprise senior business development manager and former General Services Administration associate administrator for citizen services and communications
David Songco - National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development chief information officer
Bill Vajda - Education Department chief information officer
Bob Woods - Topside Consulting president and former commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Technology Service





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