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FierceGovernmentIT’s Fierce 15

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Originally posted by Layla Jones, David Perera & Molly Bernhart Walker on FierceGovernmentIT

 

Over the course of 4 months in 2012 FierceGovernmentIT conducted interviews with government officials and industry to identify some of the most innovative projects and forward-thinking people working in government IT. From that pool the editorial staff collaboratively selected 2012's Fierce 15.

Most of the civil servants recognized in FierceGovernmentIT's Fierce 15 won't be found keynoting event after event across Washington. Instead, they handle behind-the-scenes orchestration of some of the most progressive projects underway in government and work tirelessly to make government more efficient, service- and mission-oriented, and accountable.

Find out who earned the #1 title in FierceGovernmentIT's Fierce 15 >> http://bit.ly/XvGD0X

Washington gives props to feds at annual awards gala

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Originally posted by Kellie Lunney on GovExec

A doctor at the National Institutes of Health who helped pioneer the use of a drug to combat the transmission of HIV from infected pregnant women to their babies has been named federal employee of the year by a nonprofit group.

Lynne Mofenson, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, will be honored at a black-tie event Thursday in Washington for her work in the late 1980s and 1990s to prevent mother-to-child transmission of AIDS. At that time, there was little that could be done to prevent such infection; today the number of HIV cases found in U.S. children has dropped to less than 150 per year.

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