Top leaders are important, but it’s the rank-and-file talent that truly drives innovation in government. The Rising Star awards recognize those outstanding early-career individuals who are doing great things today — and who are likely to be filling the senior slots tomorrow. Congratulations to this year's winners:
- Arvin Baroni
Senior Product Manager, Product Lifecycle Management
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Katie Boeckl
Privacy Risk Strategist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Liz Dean
Senior UX Strategist
MetroStar Systems
- Kelsey Werder Monaghan
Federal Account Manager, Department of Energy & NASA
Dell Technologies
- Jamie Mullaney
Manager
Jefferson Consulting Group
- George Nicol
Program Specialist, Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement
NASA
- Meikle Paschal Jr.
Robotic Process Automation Product Owner
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Nicholas Shields
Research Analyst/Data Scientist
Department of the Air Force
- Douglas Smith
Project Manager, FEDSIM
General Services Administration
- Kevin Smith
Vice President
C2S Consulting Group
- Sherri Sokol
Innovation Lead
Defense Information Systems Agency
- Ashley Strickland
CACI Agile Solution Factory Growth & Communications Lead
CACI
Profiles for each winner will be published in early November.