ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Awards 2022
The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) has announced the winners of its 2022 Innovation Awards. The award winners were selected by a panel of judges from 124 outstanding nominations from across industry and government. Recognition was given to five Innovation Champion Award winners, the grand prize champions in this year’s competition, and also to seven Innovation Impact Award winners, additional outstanding examples of the power of innovative solutions in the federal market.
The Innovation Champion Award, ACT-IAC’s highest innovation award, recognizes a significant and game-changing innovation. The Innovation Impact Award recognizes an innovation that has had a substantial impact within government technology. This year’s nominations included artificial intelligence and intelligent automation, pandemic response tools, cybersecurity, IT modernization, data science, health care, virtual reality, geospatial analysis, and citizen services. Nominations were submitted by federal, state, and local government agencies, private companies, FFRDC and national labs.
Innovation Champion Award Panel with Francis Rose
Innovation Champion Award Winners
| Google & California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) | California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Wildfire mapping |
| Argonne National Laboratory & DHS | Threat, Identification, Determination, Evaluation (TIDE) |
| Octo Consulting | Shots Fired Azimuth Detector |
| U.S. Customs and Border Protection | High Level Automated Robots (Bots) in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Procurement |
| INADEV Corporation | Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Next Generation Immersive Augmented Reality Mobile Solution to Improve the Taxpayer Experience |
Innovation Impact Award Winners
| Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) Office | Joint Health Information Exchange (Joint HIE) |
| CDHS & Deloitte | State of Colorado, Intelligent Automation for Periodic Reporting |
| IBM | Veterans Benefits Administration Automation Platform (VBAAP) |
| Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology | VA: Health and Benefits app |
| Accenture | Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) HoloLens Program |
| CivicActions | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid RapidATO Project |
| General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) | Veterans Administration (VA) Skin Lesion Classifier |