Federal CIO Clare Martorana finds that developing a deep understanding of colleagues – and what motivates them – lies at the heart of great IT leadership: “By…

Federal CISO and Deputy National Cyber Director, Executive Office of the President Chris DeRusha says that empathy and transparency have been crucial to the success of federal…

CIO, Department of Housing and Urban Development To Beth Niblock, there are five important qualities that make up a good leader: integrity, commitment to the mission, communication,…

NIH’s Center for IT, which Andrea Norris directs, has undertaken several modernization and expansion initiatives in the last few years. Projects include network modernization, building out NIH’s…

Andre Mendes strives to drive consensus within his organization. His focus is creating or adopting abstraction layers that remove commodity burdens from the department’s IT portfolio. “Like…

Global CTO & President of U.S. Government, Palantir As president of U.S. government business for Palantir, Akash “Aki” Jain leads by focusing on the experiences of those…

A veteran of the private sector, Aaron Weis joined government as a senior adviser to the Department of Defense CIO and then took over the Navy’s sprawling…

Global CIO and SVP for Supply Chain, GDIT “Listen, encourage, and be respectful to everyone.” Those are the top qualities of a good leader, said James Hannah,…

The Department of the Treasury is developing an enterprise capability that provides a full suite of cloud products, services and support from multiple providers. Called TCloud, the…

While the larger Department of Defense works to acquire an end-to-end, enterprise cloud, the Air Force seems to be doing just fine on its own. The service…