DON Federal 100 Award winners: five information technology leaders from the Department of the Navy were among this year's Federal 100 Award winners

CHIPS, April-June, 2006

The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) believes that outstanding IT leaders throughout the DON should be recognized for their contributions--both within and outside the Department. So when the opportunity to recognize some of its leaders for the Federal 100 Awards arose, the DON CIO nominated five of them--and all five were winners!

Federal Computer Week magazine presents the Federal 100 Awards each year to the top executives from government, industry and academia that had the greatest impact on the government information systems community for the previous year. The winners' accomplishments were recognized in the March 20 issue of Federal Computer Week magazine.

The 2006 awards were presented at a black-tie gala March 20 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in McLean, Va. The DON Federal 100 Award winners follow.

Mr. Robert J. Carey is the DON deputy CIO for Policy and Integration. Mr. Carey won the Federal 100 Award for leading information assurance strategy and policy development and implementation efforts that have significantly improved the security of DON systems and networks; and for integrating Department and service-level IT governance, policy development and execution into a single and more efficient management team.

Rear Adm. Cecil D. Haney is the deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Policies and Requirements, U.S. Pacific Fleet. In his collateral duty as chief knowledge officer, he sets the vision and policy for applying knowledge management (KM) as a mission enabler throughout all USPACFLT commands. Rear Adm. Haney won the Federal 100 Award for implementation of the Enterprise KM tool; and creating a knowledge-sharing environment among the USPACFLT staff to ensure the lessons learned and momentums gained at the headquarters staff are available throughout USPACFLT's area of responsibility.

Capt. Fred Mingo is the commanding officer for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, New Orleans. Prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, under the leadership of Capt. Mingo, SPAWARSYSCEN New Orleans successfully implemented its continuity of operations plan, which calls for its Customer Support Center services and computer operations to be transferred to the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas. Capt. Mingo displayed uncommon compassionate leadership and sensitivity to the plight of those employees who literally lost everything they owned as he orchestrated the transition of his personnel back to work.

Capt. Mingo won the Federal 100 Award for exemplary leadership and commitment to people and mission as commanding officer of SPAWARSYSCEN New Orleans, in the preparation and response to the challenges of Hurricane Katrina, and successfully implementing a continuity of operations plan enabling operations to continue unhindered.

Ms. Sharie J. Bourbeau is the deputy director, C4/deputy CIO for the U.S. Marine Corps. She is responsible for providing the oversight, planning and direction for all IT capabilities supporting both the warfighting and business environments. She is responsible for influencing combat development capabilities to support interoperability within the Marine Corps enterprise architecture supervising the coordination of capability and system development fielding and sustainment, and acting as Operating Force advocacy for all expeditionary C4 issues.

Ms. Bourbeau won the Federal 100 Award for exemplary leadership to the Headquarters Marine Corps C4 staff during their transition to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet; baselining the Marine Corps' enterprise architecture portfolio; eliminating duplicate applications; and spearheading the development of an IT professional career development road map.

Mr. Ray A. Letteer is the U.S. Marine Corps' senior information assurance manager. Reporting to the Director, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers, he provides top-level advocacy in the development and use of information assurance and security; computer network defense; and creation of a unified, enterprise IA vision, strategy and policy for the Marine Corps.

Mr. Letteer won the Federal 100 Award for his substantive contributions to IA efforts at the Marine Corps, DON and DoD level, including his leadership and guidance as the co-chair of the DON IA Workforce Working Group, posing the Marine Corps and Navy to move quickly in implementing new IA training standards outlined in DoD Instruction 8570.1.