GCN executives of the year
Connecting state and local government leaders
Bruce James, public printer, Government Printing Office
Army Brig. Gen. Susan Lawrence, director of command, control, communications and computers, Central Command
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
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