At Sun Fed, too often we have seen other industries bestow honors for excellence. From the Grammys to the Emmys to the Webbies to the Major League Baseball All-Star game, we have sat idly by as those on the front lines of government technology innovation sat quietly in the background, enabling our citizens to access critical services but never garnering the true acknowledgement that they 
deserve.
Well, I say that now is the time to say “No More.” No more anonymity for those working behind the scenes leveraging new and “old” technologies to keep those checks coming from the Social Security Administration or ensuring full access to all content at the Library of Congress or enabling the protection of a National Security infrastructure that secures our nation, just to name a few.
Victor Giordano,
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Giordano is the branch chief, enterprise applications and infrastructure and oversees the test, development and operations and management of all TSA applications as well as the UNIX infrastructure.
Catherine
Cesnik's eco responsibilities have been large and vast including leading the first pilot test of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool in 2004. So far, Cesnik's efforts have helped to save the electricity equivalent of more than 400 household and prevent more than 19,000 metric tons of air emissions.
Stephen Smalley, National Security Agency
Smalley has been an open source steward within the intelligence community, developing and driving the deployment of both SE Linux and now the implementation of mandatory access controls into Open Solaris.
Andi Snow-Weaver, IBM
Snow-Weaver is the worldwide accessibility standards program manager for the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center. She has been responsible for bringing industry-specific expertise to the development of worldwide accessibility standards for information technology.
Security
Dr. Ryan Durante,
Durante is a program manager at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in
Stephen Smalley, National Security Agency
Smalley is as versatile as they come and we could not present a security award without acknowledging his tremendous contributions.
Excellence in Technology Award
Before we closed, we felt we needed to give one more special recognition. Those in the government IT industry have been able to innovate and succeed in large part due to the policies and programs implemented by elected government officials. At Sun, we believe no one has helped to facilitate the deployment of technologies to serve the public good more than Congressman Tom Davis (R-Va.). It was our honor to recognize the departing Congressman for his tremendous work.
So, there you have it, the true Hall of Famers of the government IT industry.
Next year, we are working on a Red Carpet Show on E! and a Sunday night broadcast on a major television network.
