2012 Excellence.

gov Awards
March 13, 2012

Teri Takai
Chief Information Officer Department of Defense

2012 Excellence.gov Awards

Recognizes our nations premier Information Technology (IT) innovations across federal and state governments Theme: Celebrating the Catalysts of IT Innovation

DoD is proud to be government sponsor

More than 125 nominations from across the country
Roughly 50 nominations from state and local governments Roughly 75 nominations from the federal government

Welcome to representatives of 30 finalists in 6 categories

Everyone Innovates in the same Challenging Environment Context
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DoD Information Environment Context

Exploding technologies Challenging scope

Increasing threat
Decreasing budget Demanding efficiencies
Environment Demands Innovation
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Award Categories
Excellence in Enhancing the Customer Experience Excellence in Intergovernmental Collaboration Excellence in the Workforce Excellence in Enterprise Efficiencies Excellence in Innovation: Social Media Excellence in Innovation: Mobility
Challenges for which Success is Critical
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Seven Keys to Success

Providing innovative concept and methods
Enhancing the organizations impact Addressing significant challenges Innovating ways to better connect citizens/employees

Improving organizational efficiency

Enhancing Enterprise efficiencies

Transforming agencies
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Providing Innovative Concept and Methods

EPA Challenge
Public-private agency competition to develop applications
Yielded 38 new applications to meet environmental challenges Public submitted more than 100 application ideas

Pioneered a new concept to expand its applications

Collaborated with the public to leverage ideas

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Enhancing the Organizations Impact

U.S. Treasurys Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (BFEM)
Treasury recognized that all agencies faced the same challenges when it came to annual budget development Made BFEM available as a shared application, allowing other agencies to leverage its infrastructure BFEM now used by six Cabinet agencies and 13 total agencies

Utah Connect
Provides aggregation point for all levels of government social media feeds In June 2011, Utah social media campaign using Twitter reached more than 2.2 million people in first three days
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Addressing Significant Challenges

Pennsylvania linked 2 million job seekers to 95,000 employers with a state-of-the-art one-stop assistance tool U.S. Department of Education provided a single, secure and convenient entry point for public inquiries U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developed a tool to help 90 million beneficiaries U.S. Department of Labor partnered with 17 agencies to deliver a cloud-based capability that brought together 1,000 sources of state and federal benefits information
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Innovating Ways to Better Connect Citizens/Employees

West Virginias EGov project delivered a cloud-based, statewide capability that connects communities and high school students
Overcame economic conditions that leave counties and communities unable to provide IT capabilities

Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Florida created a system that remotely links interpreters with the Court
Provided on call, round-the-clock access to interpreters through courtroom security cameras and an audio platform

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Improving Operational Efficiency

Federal Aviation Administration Federal Notice to Airman System
Provides notice of life-threatening information to pilots Replaced a 50-year old approach that required 8 to 15 minutes to work with a capability that takes less than 5 seconds Uses automated workflows to enhance the integrity and review of these notices

Coast Guard Business Intelligence

Leverages more than 40 existing data sources to report Coast Guard readiness and capabilities
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Enhancing Enterprise Efficiencies

U.S. Department of Homeland Security consolidated 32 globally distributed directory environments into one Another DHS project consolidated 43 data centers into two Enterprise Data Centers Minnesota became first U.S. state to announce an enterprise-wide cloud computing agreement NASA created a single enterprise-level IT service across its ten NASA Centers Los Alamos National Lab built a cloud solution that retired more than 100 servers and 3 data centers
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Transforming Agencies
U.S. Department of States Integrated Logistics Management System
Transformed State from a paper-based organization to one on the leading edge of supply chain technology Eliminated manual processes and reduced transit times by 58 percent More than $148 million in savings Discovered 1,000 unaccounted IT assets

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Top Five Take Aways

Be persistent winning is best project at that right time, if you didnt win today, try again! Keep it simple success means translating complex technical issues in a simple, straightforward way that executives can understand Think big picture think outside your organization, department or even your agency! Understand & work the forces for change not only does success depend upon senior management advocacy but it requires the lightening rods who will be the champions to sell your story! Collaborate continually Cross functional collaboration is essential to successfully executing change projects
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