Rebecca Ayers led the OPM team to develop the first software-as-a-service governmentwide performance management system—USA Performance. Agencies currently scan millions of pages of performance plans to upload into electronic personnel files. OPM estimates USAP can save a single agency hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars by automating the traditional paper process.
FEMA ICPD used social media tools to implement and gain participants for America's PrepareAthon!, FEMA's newest and largest action-based, grassroots disaster-preparedness campaign. More than 5 million participants nationwide signed up for the event—five times the original goal. A Twitter campaign—#PrepareAthon—has also dominated the online preparedness conversation.
USFS frequently posts PDF versions of maps online; however, the static nature of PDFs don’t allow the agency to update the maps efficiently. The Region 6 GIS team used cloud-based, server-centric technologies to deliver information in an interactive way. The project provided decision makers access to information, regardless of their device or location, in real-time to make informed decisions.
Patrick Choquette at the Peace Corps is committed to using technology to shake up the 53-year-old volunteer organization. In 2012, Choquette pioneered the use of hackathons and crowdsourcing to come up with solutions to Peace Corps-specific problems, such as mobile translation services.
Daniel Clemons at IARPA is responsible for making sure the research pipeline to the intelligence community keeps flowing with new, innovative ideas. The IDEAS project eliminated an antiquated, manual process for reviewing research proposals, replacing it with a secure, user-friendly software platform for tracking submissions.
With 153,000 alcoholic beverage label submissions annually, TTB’s Advertising, Labeling and Formulation Division had to streamline the process to allow alcohol beverage industry members to achieve mandatory label approval. ALFD expanded the use of its online label submissions system. The system allows for labeling status monitoring and industry members can also submit and check the status of submissions 24/7.
Under Erozan Kurtas’ leadership, SEC's NEAT Development Team created a new analytical tool dramatically enhancing the exam team’s ability to analyze a firm’s trading data and to identify signs of illegal conduct, including insider trading, front running and a host of other violations. In a matter of minutes, an examiner can now run more than 40 standard reports.
Christina Lachance transformed OPA’s Title X (family planning) siloed reporting system to a modern solution that will be able to receive standards-based summaries of health encounters directly from EHR systems used in more than 4,000 clinical settings.
SSA's Martha Lambie came up with an innovative solution to a staffing crunch at the agency that had depleted institutional knowledge: developing a virtual help, or vHelp model, to share expert knowledge with frontline staff at 1,300 field offices across the country.
Lisa LaPlant at GPO led a team of experts working to make thousands of pages of information about the federal government—including, most recently, summaries of every bill introduced in the House of Representatives—available for bulk download and easy use by citizens developers.
USDA's William Marken took the lead in developing a Web-based geospatial tool called GeoObserver to remotely monitor millions of acres of land for compliance with the agency’s conservation programs. IT specialist Michele Simmons helped keep deployment of the system on schedule using agile software development methods.
USDA's John Picanso led an effort to modernize the agency’s nationwide animal disease surveillance database that involved migrating some 2 billion records from an aging legacy system to a Web-based, off-the-shelf solution—and finished a full year ahead of schedule.
U.S. Army's Thomas Sasala spearheaded a Pentagon pilot to deploy a multitenant virtual desktop solution for 200 employees of the Information Technology Agency and Joint Staff in less than nine months. The pilot is now heading into full production for the entire Army.
BLS' Peter Smith’s team created and posted more than 200 hurricane flood-zone maps and tables of employment, wages and establishment counts for Gulf and Atlantic Coast counties. This innovation will help citizens, media and emergency planning agencies better assess economic impacts of disasters, before or afterward.
Under the watch of John Streufert at DHS, the next frontier of dot-gov security went from novel idea to concrete reality. Streufert’s team navigated the crucial beginning stages of the complex, $6 billion continuous diagnostics and mitigation program.
A DOJ team led by Jolene Lauria Sullens reduced the department’s stable of seven siloed systems to two, one of which was a new enterprisewide system. The new system standardized nearly 30 business process across the agency—and all the while, the agency maintained a clean audit opinion.
Faced with an evolving mission, a 60 percent workforce reduction and a shrinking budget, Dr. Arpad Szurgyi championed programs and promoted tools JIEDDO-wide to foster an agile, resilient and resourceful workforce to protect the warfighter and support the critical counter-IED mission.
For centuries, diplomats have engaged with their contacts and counterparts using paper invitations and business cards. State Department's Andy Walsh and London’s Technology Innovation Office updated the process by integrating QR codes on invitations with social media and a searchable Web-based contact management database.
Department of Navy's Sonjae Whang led the development and integration of intelligent heating, ventilation and cooling systems on Navy tankers and cargo ships. The intelligent HVAC system allows ships to modulate the flow of on-board heating and cooling systems instead of running them full blast nonstop.
With scarce funding and time, DTRA's Andrew Wiedlea and his team created the Constellation prototype, an unclassified system that aims to enhance situational awareness of threats from weapons of mass destruction and U.S. and international counter-WMD activities.