Igniting Innovation 2018 Conference and Awards
Event Details
Overview
Congratulations to this year's award winners and Top 8 Finalists!
2018 Igniting Innovation Award Overall Winner
HRSA's New Data Analytics Platform, Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS
Dynamite Award Winners
- Impacter – greatest magnitude of innovation results and benefits.
Gov2Go - NIC Federal, LLC - Game Changer: disruptive innovation that creates a new market, significantly impacts an existing one, or results in a major breakthrough on a longstanding problem.
Acquisition in the Digital Age (AiDA) - The MITRE Corporation - Transformer: uses existing technology to transform or extend existing capabilities resulting in new or broadened applicability and use.
Cognitive Object Detection Assistant (CODA) - IBM Corporation - Incubator: not–yet-deployed innovation with greatest potential to enhance services to citizens or government operations (must have at least a working prototype).
Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management - NASA
Top Eight Finalists Selected by Attendees Were:
Agile Acquisition at the OCC, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Biometrics Cloud Modernization, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS and Pyramid Systems Inc.
Code.gov, General Services Administration
FedRAMP Tailored, FedRAMP
HRSA's New Data Analytics Platform, Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS
Seeing AI: Talking Camera App, Microsoft
Sentinel Analytics System, Federal Trade Commission and Leidos
USDA Ethics Mobile Application, U.S. Department of Agriculture
View the speaker's presentations here
read about the top 40 finalists' innovations here
view the top 40 finalists videos here
Igniting Innovation is the premier annual event featuring innovations to improve services to citizens and government operations. This year's program will be bigger and better than ever! Don't miss this chance to learn what's happening on the cutting edge of innovation.
- Forty Exhibits by top innovators from across the nation
- Keynote and panels by senior government officials
- "Lightning Talks" by experienced innovators
- An interactive, human-centered design session on procurement innovation
Keynote
Matt Lira, Special Assistant to the President for Innovation Policy and Initiatives, White House Office of American Innovation
The Trump Administration Innovation Agenda
Panels
Gary Washington (Chief Information Officer, USDA), Darren Ash (Assistant Chief Information Officer Farm Production and Conservation Mission Area, USDA), and Joanne Collins-Smee (Deputy Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and Director of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), GSA) Moderated by Jason Miller (Executive Editor, Federal News Radio)
USDA IT Modernization Center of Excellence
Alexis Bonnell (Division Chief of Applied Innovation and Acceleration, Global Development Lab, USAID), Gayle Girod (Chief Innovation Counsel, Global Development Lab, USAID), and James Randall Tift (Senior Adviser, Office of Acquisition and Assistance and Co-Senior Leader Champion for Effective Partnering and Procurement Reform (EPPR), USAID) Moderated by David Bray (Executive Director, People-Centered Internet)
Moving Innovation from Contact to Team Sport
Innovation Zone
Human-Centered Design for Procurement Innovation, led by Arianne Miller, Managing Director, the Lab at OPM, focused on:
Introduction by Eliana Zavala, Management Analyst, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, OMB
DHS Service Management Tool & Support Services - How a Focused Design Approach Resulted in Effective Customer Service & Mission Delivery
- Gregory Ruderman, Associate Director, IT Acquisitions Center, Office of Procurement Operations, DHS
- Scott Simpson, Contracting Officer, IT Acquisitions Center, Office of Procurement Operations, DHS
- Kofi Asante, Service Delivery Manager, Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), DHS
Lightning Talk Speakers
Nat Wood, Associate Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
IdentityTheft.gov, Continuing to Innovate
Jim Thompson, Director of Innovation, State Department
Open Innovation for Diplomacy (using hackathons, accelerators and blockchain)
Alexis Bonnell, Chief, Applied Innovation & Acceleration, USAID Global Development Lab
Global Innovation Exchange
Nagesh Rao, Director of Business Technology Solutions, Office of the CIO, Small Business Administration
Cultivating Innovation Ecosystems Across America
Avi Bender, Director, National Technical Information Service
Federal-Private Sector Partnerships for Delivering IT Modernization
Sarah Fahden, Chief, Identity, Records, and National Security Delivery Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DHS
USCIS Verification Program
Edward Harper, Director, Office of Program Integrity, Child Nutrition Program, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
Web-based Prototype for School Meals
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Deputy Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA and Stacy Swartwood, Program/Systems Analyst, National Organic Program, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA
Organic Integrity Database
Top 40 Finalists
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AiDA (aida.mitre.org) is a website designed to demonstrate how agencies can leverage digital strategies and tools to navigate programs through the complex acquisition enterprise with greater success. AiDA features a tailored acquisition model for programs to apply Agile practices across the acquisition lifecycle. The model tailors the processes, reviews, and documents for that type of acquisition and offers guidance and reference each step of the way. AiDA digitized major acquisition policies to be more interactive, and curated hundreds of key policies, guides, reports, and resources for the acquisition workforce. We like to characterize AiDA as the Google Maps for Acquisition.
ADAPT+C is a framework for a successful analytics organization. Anchored to that framework, is a set of tools and resources, including an analytics capability maturity model, an organizational assessment, a tailored roadmap, and a four-step approach to building an analytics strategy. The value of the ADAPT+C framework lies in its simplicity; it provides six critical elements, Analytic Opportunities, Data, Analytic Techniques, People, Technology, and Culture, which must be considered to increase the adoption and use of analytics within an organization. Regardless of where an organization is within its analytics journey, ADAPT+C can help navigate the road ahead.
Description - Using ACRE, organizations can benefit from access to military grade cyber training, testing and evaluation capabilities on highly realistic models of their own networks. They do this by putting their cybersecurity systems and personnel under “live fire cyberattacks” using real malware in a safe environment. This enables organizations to test and evaluate the security of their networks and to train users in the latest defensive cyber technologies. Use of a cyber range enables organizations to evolve on pace with emerging technologies while protecting their networks and infrastructure against damage that could occur from new malware, threats to platforms and evolving threats from the Internet of Things (IoT).
The U.S. Department of Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) implemented the following innovative Agile acquisition methods on its Application Support Contract BPA: 1) An acquisition framework that allows purchasing of Agile Story Points to apply to development work; and 2) The acquisition of fixed-priced and multidisciplinary Agile Teams. These unique acquisition strategies were piloted on two calls to contractually support Agile adoption; frequent and incremental delivery of valuable products and capabilities; and increased flexibility, efficiency, and productivity. These methods have already begun to expand Agile adoption, increase development value and output, and improve return on investment.
The Auditor’s Fraud, Waste and Abuse Analytics solution, developed for the Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor, allows the state’s approximately 180 auditors to more efficiently and expediently evaluate expenditures by every agency that receives appropriations from the state government. The solution makes it possible for auditors to review massive quantities of data in seconds and eliminates back and forth between auditors and data scientists.This solution allows the Commonwealth’s team of auditors to more quickly identify areas of possible waste and fraud, saving time and taxpayer dollars.
To provide a single access point in which industry partners can electronically submit information to all government agencies involved in international trade, FDA worked with Customs and Border Protection to implement the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/International Trade Data System (ITDS). Approximately 175,000 import lines (a specific product that is being imported) are processed through the ACE/ITDS each workday, and over 14 million import lines have been processed through the new system. ACE-ITDS has resulted in easier submittal by trade industry, increased speed to approve by FDA reviewers, reduced time and cost expenditures, and resulting in a more robust import process.
Mobile devices have become part of the fabric of our daily lives. They have fundamentally shifted how we, as consumers, experience services in many industries. Perspecta believes the courts are at this tipping point, so we developed the BENCH App, which allows a citizen to request leniency for minor violations. Citizens can verify identification, provide documentation, receive a decision from a Court and pay any resulting fines, all without having to take time off of work to go to court. Using digital technologies the courts can clear cases faster, create a better experience, while providing fair and equitable justice.
Biometric matching capability that enables the government to biometrically confirm traveler identity upon departure from the United States using facial recognition technology. This matching allows the government to confirm that a foreign visitor complied with the terms of admission to the U.S., any visa requirements, as well as identifies travelers who may have entered the country without presenting themselves at an official port of entry. Through facial recognition, the government can also interdict and deter the fraudulent use of travel documents and identify individuals who may be subject to law enforcement action.
The DMV needs to collaborate with external organizations like the justice and insurance departments to register vehicles. It’s imperative that all these organizations maintain the most updated information to accurately register and track vehicles. Current systems that facilitate this process are prone to errors due to duplication of records, incomplete information etc., and make collaboration difficult. BLOCKIFY addresses these challenges by offering a blockchain based vehicle registration & tracking system. BLOCKIFY ensures that the most accurate and complete information is maintained, accessed and updated in a secure and cost-effective manner.
CAPE’s flagship initiative, Acquisition College, is a new, innovative resource intended to increase the ability of GSA’s acquisition workforce to obtain the best value for government and the American people in real estate, acquisition, and technology by complementing standard certification training with engaging solutions that target the needs of GSA. The Acquisition College will offer CLP-approved continuous learning opportunities that: (1) Focus on acquisition competencies and functions that are unique to GSA’s services (e.g., establishing Schedules, constructing and maintaining public buildings) and (2) Build on-the-job skills, in addition to knowledge, by incorporating hands-on learning through interactive functionality.
As the nation’s primary platform for sharing and improving government software, Code.gov helps government agencies implement the Federal Source Code Policy by harvesting their software projects to enable members of the government and the general public explore, improve, and reuse the government’s custom-developed code.
IBM implemented the Cognitive Object Detection Assistant (CODA) Proof of Concept (PoC) for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Acquisition Program Management (OAPM). CODA proves early machine learning successes for x-ray baggage screening in the checkpoint environment and demonstrates the ability to improve threat object detection performance in comparison to traditional detection methods. CODA augments the presented x-ray image for the operator by highlighting threat and prohibited items, identifying threat type, and providing a confidence score. CODA technology demonstrated a 99% detection rate for a handgun threat.
To enable our nation’s federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to easily investigate consumer reports of Fraud, Scams, and Identity Theft, and protect consumers from harm, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) has redeveloped its Consumer Sentinel Network (CSN) to be a more effective Law Enforcement investigation system in close collaboration with the Department of Justice (DOJ), and its end users. Utilizing advanced data analytics and visualization capabilities, CSN improves law enforcement’s ability to investigate specific targets, identify new cases, analyze trends and patterns in consumer reports, and thereby protect consumers.
CIT is an innovation that involves mobile devices, wireless sensors, and cloud computing to indicate to winter road maintenance (and street sweeping) operators the areas that have been completed over time duration's. For example, in winter road maintenance operations, operators are expected to evenly apply deicing chemicals to infrastructure to avoid ice from forming on the roadway. Operators typically rely on their memory and voice communications to determine which areas have been treated and which areas haven’t. CIT indicates coverage information to operators through a dash mounted display, resulting in fewer missed roads as well as increases in operational efficiency.
The CPMS-NC initiative reinvented the way USCIS Immigration Records and Identity Services (IRIS) Directorate, Biometrics Division (BD) processes FBI name-based background checks. The CPMS-NC service functions as a broker between all USCIS Case Management Systems (CMS) and the FBI Next-Generation National Name Check Program (NGNCP) resulting in: Reducing processing time, Cutting costs and Consolidating complex logic. The CPMS-NC service replaces a set of manual processes and batch legacy applications suffering from inconsistent logic and duplicate submissions with a single transformative web service that removes duplicates and decreases name-check turn-around from days to hours saving USCIS an average of $85,000 each month.
The Digital Copilot® is a cognitive assistant that provides the single-pilot operator with benefits of a crewed operation by using a mobile device. The software-based capability includes proprietary algorithms and a unique user interface that form a cognitive assistant for the pilot of a general aviation aircraft. The Digital Copilot accesses a large set of aviation information sources to monitor flight progress and to alert the pilot to potential safety issues. This technology may be applied to airspace awareness, clearance conformance, approach briefing automation, surface safety, holding pattern depiction, traffic pattern entry, as well as other tasks.
District is a contextually-based mobile security platform designed to address challenges faced by mobile device hardware and native operating systems. It provides hardware based automated control of device behavior (powering on/off and disabling access to peripherals, and operating systems) based entirely on administrator-defined policies associated with specific environments. It focuses on: 1) dynamic, automated security enforcement; 2) end-point hardening addressing nation-state style attacks; 3) proactive data protection against negligence or malicious attacks; 4) actionable asset tracking, reporting, and analytics. District provides the foundation for a robust mobile ecosystem with secure wireless networking, multi-domain workflows, real-time threat detection, and mobile device management.
New cloud solutions provide government the opportunity to more effectively achieve their missions while saving time and resources. However, the rigor of FedRAMP’s existing baselines can make market entry prohibitive for low-risk cloud solutions. To give Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) an actionable means of demonstrating the security required to work with government, FedRAMP designed the Tailored solution. Tailored provides a greatly reduced set of security requirements for low-risk systems that enables a streamlined approach for determining risk and authorizing cloud solutions and agile private-public partnerships for cloud service adoption, without sacrificing overall security.
It’s not easy to fill up government forms like form for driving license, vehicle registration etc. There’s a lot of information to be filled, instructions may not be very helpful, and even a simple mistake may require a lot of rework. FormAR, a mobile app, uses Augmented Reality to help customers fill forms faster by up to 33 % and minimize errors. Customers can just point the app to the form and it would list the sample text that should be filled, in the language of choice. With FormAR, agencies can significantly improve customer experience.
Gov2Go is the first digital personal assistant for government. It’s a nationwide platform solution that delivers essential federal, state, and local government services to citizens quickly and easily via the devices they use today, and includes convenient functionality like one-click payments.
DHS OCTO created “RockIT Innovation Lab” to provide Third-party End-to-End Engineering (E3) for testing new Information Technology solutions prior to enterprise implementation. RockIT Innovation Lab’s viability was first proven with a 45-day sprint Proof of Concept of GovReady-Q, a Third-party compliance analysis tool and service provider that automates the creation and ongoing maintenance of the Systems Security Plan (SSP). RockIT Innovation Lab is powered by 2 Twelve Solutions’ VeriCloud data center infrastructure to provide a reconfigurable cloud environment that emulates DHS’s enterprise network and a set of mission applicable use cases. DHS OCTO GovReady-Q Pilot demonstrated security scanning and automatically updating the SSP in the DevOps CI/CD pipeline based on continuing changes to an application.
The first public or private project operationalizing blockchain as the backbone to the procurement process in the world, the General Services Administration FASt Lane Proof of Concept has accelerated S70 federal acquisitions through automation. Utilizing Distributed Ledger Technology foundationally and layering smart contracts, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, GSA is truly modernizing the contract process. With improved process times and enhanced operations, the system provides an efficient, flexible, secure, transparent and data-driven experience to over 1,000 federal, state and local customers. Shaping a new wave of innovation, this initiative has proved blockchain is both successfully and doable in government.
GSA Fleet Mobile Solutions enhance the vehicle leasing experience for GSA Fleet customer agencies and optimize business operations for GSA Fleet vehicles. GSAFleet2Go is a mobile app that targets drivers of Fleet leased vehicles, providing them preventive maintenance notifications/information, guidance to Fleet’s maintenance and repair vendor network, vehicle recall reminders, roadside assistance, instruction on proper protocols in the event of vehicle accidents, and other relevant information. FMS2Go, another GSA Fleet Mobility Solution, includes an enhancement to deliver offline mode functionality, enabling Fleet operations staff to perform vehicle asset intake (i.e., inventory load) when no Internet connectivity is available. FMS2Go also supports digital signature capability, which is essential for automated capture and submission of electronic forms.
The Inter-Agency Collaborative for Mobile Applications is a formal agreement and process that unites public safety agencies in California, maximizing mutual benefit from public sector investment in mobile applications. The County of San Diego (CoSD) implemented a highly-acclaimed mobile application that transforms probationer supervision. CoSD shared the software with the California Department of Corrections (CDCR), who deployed it to 1400 parole agents in under six months at minimal expense. The Inter-Agency Collaborative for Mobile Applications enables all counties to use the application through an Open Source Software (OSS) approach that overcomes challenges inherent to governmental use of OSS.
Making All Voices Count is an international initiative that harnesses the power of innovation and new technologies to support effective, accountable governance. Working in 12 countries across Africa and Asia, the program funds new ideas that amplify the voices of citizens, and enable governments to listen and respond. At its core, Making All Voices Count is also a learning program, exploring the role technology can play in securing responsive, accountable government and building an evidence base on what works and what doesn’t. This Grand Challenge for Development is funded by USAID in partnership with UKAid, Swedish Sida and the Omidiyar Network. about seizing this moment to promote transparency, fight corruption, empower citizens, and harness the power of new technologies to make government more effective and accountable. The aim of Making All Voices Count is not only to bring about change during the lifetime of the program, but also to leave a legacy of learning that helps to ensure that future governance programs that seek to capitalize on the transformative potential of innovation and technology are more informed, inclusive and impactful. How? By making grants to support innovation and technology that has the potential to support better governance. By undertaking research that helps to build a base of evidence about what works and why in using innovation for accountable governance. And by working with policy makers, opinion formers and influencers to ensure that our learning has impact across the sector.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA’s) Modern Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) provides 1,800+ grants/program officers with self-service tools to support data-informed decision-making and mitigate risks to its $9B grants portfolio. MDAP uses Tableau to analyze and visualize 750-plus data fields obtained from the grants management process including planning, application, review, pre-award, award, and post-award grant phases, and related external sources such as eGrant files, SAM.gov, and HHS’s PMS. The MDAP enables business users to reduce their time-to-insight by 40%, democratizes business intelligence within the Agency (from power users to every user), and empowers users to utilize interactive dashboards/reports to make timely decisions.
MIST is a protective tool suite used by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) to drive security-based risk management recommendations to decision makers at each of the over 9,000 federal facilities protected by FPS. MIST incorporates identified threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences, along with countermeasure status, security asset inventory and a robust data analysis capability to ensure all available information is provided to support facility security decisions
AEEC developed a web application to help U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examiners analyze patent and trademark applications for similarities using machine learning. Our innovation compares new images against a constantly expanding database of existing trademarks; and textual analysis identifies key terms in possible related patent and trademark applications to detect less obvious similarities in existing intellectual property that need to be examined for proper application outcomes to be determined. The innovation also has an IoT component using Amazon Echo Alexa voice services, enabling examiners to search and quickly pull information from various sources using spoken questions.
PSP supports FMCSA’s goal to improve safety on the nation’s roads by providing trucking and bus companies with electronic access to driver safety data for use during the hiring process. PSP usage has contributed to measurable reductions in crashes and out-of-service rates, improving the efficient, safe delivery of goods nationwide. Increasing participation is critical to maximizing the program’s benefits, and an online enrollment wizard was added to simplify the sign-up process. The enrollment wizard has allowed companies to submit agreements more quickly, and sped up the enrollment process, letting motor carriers begin using the program and experience its benefits sooner.
RSTR was created to provide the current Roboteam throwable ISR platform (Individual Robotic Intelligence System – IRIS) with aerial capabilities, providing the operator with vision of an area from both the ground and aerial perspective. The RSTR can provide transport IRIS to the point of interest for deployment, automatically maintain a holding position, and recover IRIS from the ground. This multipurpose platform significantly increases the operating range of the IRIS platform and provides a single operator with multiple perspectives of the battlefield.
Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text, currency, color and objects with spoken audio. Much like a Swiss Army knife, this app provides many tools in one by leveraging the power of on-device deep learning to open many “first time in life” scenarios. Key features include - Real time text reading, document structure understanding, audio based barcode locator and product recognizer, face recognition and emotion/age/gender description, currency recognition, color recognition, audible light detector and handwriting reader. Additionally, this app can make other apps accessible and inclusive by describing photos while using other apps.
AT&T’s Smart Base Framework underpins a “smart base” solution that translates the “smart cities” concept to military bases. The Framework consists of a design, delivery, and managed solution portfolio for everyday base operations. AT&T’s program with Maxwell Air Force Base includes a wireless perimeter system, video surveillance, fleet management and messaging platforms that feed data into AT&T’s Common Operational Portal (COP). COP is an intelligence and visualization platform designed to improve base situational awareness. It supports real-time event monitoring, tracking and response for Base Defense Operations Center (BDOC) and intelligent communications and dispatch for base patrols via mobile application.
The Department of Education (ED) is responsible for the administration and oversight of an annual educational grants program valued at approximately $47 billion.The Edison Platform is delivered through a collection of modern, cloud-based, business solutions that provide cutting edge capabilities to employees; enhancing their ability to identify, monitor, and manage risks horizontally and vertically across the Department of Education’s grant portfolio. The Edison portal solution was built utilizing user centric design principles, and is architected in a manner that meets the current needs of the Department, while allowing for future scalability.
The Master Data Management (MDM) Program began in January of 2015 and in under three years, separated an end of life monolithic system into discreet parts; developed four new systems to replace and improve upon the functionality provided by the monolith; established data standards, data stewards, and data governance processes; and ensured that the eleven systems previously dependent upon the old monolithic system received the necessary data to continue functioning. All projects were completed per the original target date and resulted in significant data usage changes and efficiency gains for the Agency.
Cybersecurity for sophisticated application layer attacks including fileless, zero-day, memory based attack vectors. Patented and unique technology that enables threat detection, response, protection, facilitating remediation of breached systems and vulnerability patching of software, and unparalleled degree of forensics.
The EIA’s U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool provides a single view of the U.S. electric grid and helps electricity providers and policymakers better understand and operate our national power system. The tool features nearly real-time demand data—plus analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand on a national and regional level—for the entire U.S. electric grid.
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management addresses a key current gap in safely integrating large-scale small UAS operations in low-altitude airspace (e.g., 500 feet and below). Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) enables multiple unmanned aircraft system operations simultaneously in the same airspace.
Stuart Bender, the Director of USDA's Office of Ethics, working with QuickSeries Publishing (a small business) transformed long-distance Ethics education in the federal government by creating a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind, accessible Ethics App. The innovative Ethics App is available on all smart phones, for free, to all Federal employees to help proactively promote ethical compliance and is available to any contractor, consulting firm, or member of public interested in better understanding Federal ethics laws.
Woozy Labs is a recall API and mobile application that increases consumer awareness and safety. Defective and dangerous or contaminated products pose a significant safety risk to the public, and are responsible for illnesses, property damage, injuries, and even deaths. Woozy pulls recalls from disparate sources, normalizes the data, enhances it with imagery and tagging, and then pushes a clean feed to consumers via native Android and iOS mobile applications. In addition, Woozy’s custom data visualization dashboards can aid retailers in identifying recalls trends by product and by manufacturer in order to be more informed about the products they are distributing.
Driven by tremendous competition for skilled workers to meet the demands of the knowledge economy (i.e. Agile Developers, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and Cyber Security experts) legacy workforce models are being dissolved and replaced by on-demand talent platforms like Freelancer, Gigster, and UpWork. The public sector, including Government and contractors, are presently six years behind in transitioning to the Gig-Economy due to a highly regulated nature of the industry. GovProp.com solved these issues and launched as the first public sector talent marketplace with unique algorithms that support government missions.
IGniting Innovation 2018 Conference and awards agenda *
7:00 am - 9:00 am Exhibit Setup (exhibitors only)
8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Open
9:00 am - 4:00 pm Innovation Showcase Open to Attendees
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Onsite Voting for the Top 8 Best Innovations
10:00 am - 11:00 am Lightning Talks by Experienced Innovators
Avi Bender, Director, National Technical Information Service, Federal-Private Sector Partnerships for Delivering IT Modernization
Nat Wood, Associate Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, IdentityTheft.gov, Continuing to Innovate
Sarah Fahden, Chief, Identity, Records, and National Security Delivery Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), DHS, USCIS Verification Program
Edward Harper, Director, Office of Program Integrity, Child Nutrition Program, Food and Nutrition Service,USDA, Web-based Prototype for School Meals
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Human-Centered Design for Procurement Innovation (Innovation Zone Interactive Session )
Introduction by Eliana Zavala, Management Analyst, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, OMB
Led by Arianne Miller, Managing Director, the Lab at OPM, focused on:
DHS Service Management Tool & Support Services - How a Focused Design Approach Resulted in Effective Customer Service & Mission Delivery
Gregory Ruderman, Associate Director, IT Acquisitions Center, Office of Procurement Operations
Scott Simpson, Contracting Officer, IT Acquisitions Center, Office of Procurement Operations
Kofi Asante, Service Delivery Manager, Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Keynote
Matt Lira, Special Assistant to the President for Innovation Policy and Initiatives, White House Office of American Innovation
The Trump Administration Innovation Agenda
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Panels
Gary Washington (Chief Information Officer, USDA), Darren Ash (Assistant Chief Information Officer Farm Production and Conservation Mission Area, USDA), and Joanne Collins-Smee (Deputy Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and Director of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), GSA) Moderated by Jason Miller (Executive Director, Federal News Radio)
USDA IT Modernization Center of Excellence
Alexis Bonnell (Division Chief of Applied Innovation and Acceleration, Global Development Lab, USAID), Gayle Girod (Chief Innovation Counsel, Global Development Lab, USAID), and James Randall Tift (Senior Advisor, Office of Acquisition and Assistance and Co-Senior Leader Champion for Effective Partnering and Procurement Reform, USAID) Moderated by David Bray (Executive Director, People-Centered Internet)
Moving Innovation from Contact to Team Sport
Afternoon Programs introduced by Francis Rose, Host, Government Matters
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Presentations by Top 8 Best Innovations and Voting for Igniting Innovation Award Winner
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Lightning Talks by Experienced Innovators
Nagesh Rao, Director of Business Technology Solutions, Office of the CIO, Small Business Administration, Cultivating Innovation Ecosystems Across America
Jim Thompson, Director of Innovation, State Department, Open Innovation for Diplomacy (using hackathons, accelerators and blockchain)
Alexis Bonnell, Chief, Applied Innovation & Acceleration, USAID Global Development Lab, Global Innovation Exchange
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Deputy Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA and Stacy Swartwood, Program/Systems Analyst, National Organic Program, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA Organic Integrity Database
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Awards Presentation
*Agenda is subject to change
Dynamite Award Categories
• Impacter – greatest magnitude of innovation results and benefits.
• Game Changer – disruptive innovation that creates a new market, significantly impacts an existing one, or results in a major breakthrough on a longstanding problem.
• Transformer – uses existing technology to transform or extend existing capabilities resulting in new or broadened applicability and use.
• Incubator – not–yet-deployed innovation with greatest potential to enhance services to citizens or government operations (must have at least a working prototype).
IGNITING INNOVATION IS THE PREMIER ANNUAL EVENT TO SHOWCASE INNOVATIONS TO IMPROVE SERVICES TO CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AND RECOGNIZE THE BEST INNOVATIONS WITH AWARDS.
Igniting Innovation is designed to recognize the best ideas and solutions to solve important problems and showcase those ideas and successes. Last year, there were over 100 submissions and nearly 400 people attended the event, helping spread best-practices to other professionals across government, at the federal, state and local level, and industry. The award winners received significant community and media exposure.
NOMINATION AND SELECTION GUIDE
Overview: ACT-IAC’s Institute for Innovation seeks nominations to recognize highly innovative IT products, services, systems and solutions that benefit government (federal, state, local and tribal) and citizens. The Showcase provides an educational forum to feature the “best of the best”. Last year, almost 400 individuals from government and industry visited the Showcase that featured the Top 30 innovations and voted for the most innovative solutions with demonstrated benefits. During the Showcase, many attendees discovered solutions to similar challenges in their offices and made contacts that enabled them to advance their missions. To be eligible, nominations must be about innovations that were conceived, developed, deployed, or upgrades in the last two years.
Finalists will be selected based on the highest scores from a panel of evaluators comprised of ACT-IAC member volunteers. Only information submitted on the nomination form will be used to determine the finalists. Finalists will be invited to demonstrate their innovations at the Showcase event. The “science fair” type atmosphere provides the setting for attendees to discuss solutions and lessons learned with the finalists. Social media voting adds to the excitement of the day as the crowd votes for their Top 8 innovations. Once announced, the Top 8 proceed to the stage and give a 5-minute “pitch” on their innovation to the audience. Social media voting will be used again to determine the overall Igniting Innovation award winner.
Awards: The Igniting Innovation Award is given to the best overall innovation as determined by social media voting by the audience. Dynamite Awards are given by a panel of roving judges at the Showcase event. The judges will select the innovation that best fits each of the following categories (this is not part of the attendee social media voting):
• Impacter – can be government to citizen, government to business, government to government or internal efficiency innovation. Judged on greatest magnitude of results and benefits including both quantitative (e.g. number of people, magnitude of dollars, etc) and qualitative (e.g. improvement in customer experience) aspects.
• Game Changer – either a disruptive innovation that creates a new market or significantly impacts an existing one or a major breakthrough on a longstanding problem. Judged by magnitude of change in performance or creation of new capability not previously available.
• Transformer – innovation that uses existing technology and transforms or extends existing capabilities resulting in new or broadened applicability and use.
• Incubator – not–yet-deployed innovation with greatest potential to enhance services to citizens or government operations (must have at least a working prototype).
All nominations must reflect innovations conceived,developed, deployed, or upgraded in the last two years.
The Selection Process:
Step 1: Submit a nomination by January 12, 2018. A panel of judges comprised of ACT-IAC members will read and score the nominations. The scores will be averaged to select the finalists.
Step 2: Mid-February: Notification letters will be sent to everyone who submitted nominations either notifying them of their selection as a finalist or thanking for the submitting a nomination.
Step 3: Early March: Finalists will be sent an exhibitor packet and instructions with information critical to the Showcase exhibition event.
Step 4: Finalists are encouraged to join ACT-IAC in promoting the event. Voting for the Top 8 finalists and the award winner will only take place at the event. All attendees are encouraged to pre-register and download the Igniting Innovation Conference and Awards app before the event. On-site computers will be available for those who cannot download the app due to corporate/government restrictions.
Step 5: Event day May 11, 2018. Finalists will exhibit their innovations and attendees will vote to select the Top 8 best innovations and the overall Igniting Innovation Award winner. Finalists will receive exhibit space, award certificates, exposure as leaders in innovation on the ACT-IAC website, broad media exposure and the opportunity to be selected for the Igniting Innovation and Dynamite awards.
The work of the Institute for Innovation is made possible through the support of partners from non-profit and for-profit companies. Thought leaders from these partners, representatives of the ACT-IAC leadership team, and liaisons from government guide and govern the Institute.
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Igniting Innovation Conference and Awards is a creative all-day recognition program for government and industry. The Showcase will feature the Top 40 innovative solutions selected through an open submission process. Expected attendance is 500 plus. Please contact Carol Miller, cmiller@actiac.org (703-208-4800 x256) or x256) or Nicholei Jamero, njamero@actiac.org (703-208-4800 x205) to learn more about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities.
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2017 Igniting Innovation Award Overall Winner
USCIS Verification Program, DHS, USCIS, Excella Consulting, and NTIS
Dynamite Award Winners
- Impacter – greatest magnitude of innovation results and benefits.
Global Innovation Exchange - USAID - Game Changer: disruptive innovation that creates a new market, significantly impacts an existing one, or results in a major breakthrough on a longstanding problem.
Immersive Multi-Dimensional Experience - INADEV Corporation - Transformer: uses existing technology to transform or extend existing capabilities resulting in new or broadened applicability and use.
Developer's Integration Lab (DIL) - AEGIS.net, Inc. - Incubator: not–yet-deployed innovation with greatest potential to enhance services to citizens or government operations (must have at least a working prototype).
Web-Based Prototype Application for School Meals - USDA, FNS
Videos of the Awards Program: Part One, Part Two, Part Three
Photos: All photos from the event are on the ACT-IAC Facebook page, available here.
Awardee Photos
Exhibitor Showcase Photos
Program Photos
The Top Eight Finalists Selected by Attendees Were:
Comprehensive Error Rate Testing 360, NCI, Inc.
Direct Spatial Antenna Modulation, Altamira Technologies Corporation
Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland, DHS
Organic Integrity Database, USDA National Organic Program
Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Information System, West Virginia Interactive
TechFAR Hub, OMB
USCIS Verification Program, USCIS, Excella Consulting and NTIS
Web-Based Prototype Application for School Meals, USDA FNS
This Year's Top 30 Finalists
Below is the list of this year's Top 30 Innovations (selected from 116 nominations). Exhibitors this year showcased innovations that automate business processes, reduce costs and improve program performance, strengthen cybersecurity, provide new analytic capabilities, and deliver new technologies and services.
Top 30 Finalists
Innovation Name |
Organization |
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| U.S. Department of Treasury, Enterprise Business Solutions | |
| eSignLive by VASCO | |
| NCI, Inc. | |
| Federal Communications Commission | |
| AEGIS.net, Inc. | |
| Altamira Technologies Corporation | |
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Robbins Gioia LLC |
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| RapidSOS | |
| U.S. Department of Treasury | |
| DHS Digital Service and DHS Office of the Chief Procurement Officer | |
| USAID | |
| ID.me Identity Gateway |
ID.me |
| INADEV Corporation | |
| Robbins Gioia LLC | |
| Accenture Federal Services | |
| AT&T | |
| National Organic Program, USDA | |
| Deloitte Consulting, LLP | |
| Office of Connected Care, Veterans Health Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs | |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | |
| West Virginia Interactive | |
| CGI | |
| NCI, Inc. | |
| USCIS, Excella Consulting, NTIS | |
| MicroStrategy | |
| DXC Technology and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | |
| USDA, FNS | |
| NIC Federal, LLC | |
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The Internet Social Security Number Replacement Card (iSSNRC) service |
Social Security Administration, Office of Electronic Services and Technology |
| OMB |
2016 Igniting Innovation Award Overall Winner
myUSCIS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security
Dynamite Award Winners
• Impacter – greatest magnitude of innovation results and benefits.
IdentityTheft.gov: Lockheed Martin and Federal Trade Commission
• Game Changer – disruptive innovation that creates a new market, significantly impacts an existing one, or results in a major breakthrough on a longstanding problem.
HealthMap: Epidemico
• Transformer – uses existing technology to transform or extend existing capabilities resulting in new or broadened applicability and use.
Ares Mobile Biometric Solution: InCadence Strategic Solutions
• Incubator – not–yet-deployed innovation with greatest potential to enhance services to citizens or government operations (must have at least a working prototype).
PushButtonPD™: Department of Homeland Security
Top 8 Finalists
Ares Mobile Biometric Solution: InCadence Strategic Solutions
Federated Person Query:Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security
Flexible Agile Development Services (FADS):U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security
Gov2Go: Information Network of Arkansas/NIC
IdentityTheft.gov: Lockheed Martin and Federal Trade Commission
Montana Business Checklist: Montana Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Montana Interactive/NIC
myUSCIS: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Decennial Census (2020):SAS Federal, U.S. Census Bureau
| Innovation Name | Agency | Company |
| Acquisition Gateway | General Services Administration | |
| Ares Mobile Biometric Solution | InCadence Strategic Solutions | |
| Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System (BRICS) | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes for Health | Sapient Government Services |
| Blackphone2 | Silent Circle and TESSCO Technologies Inc. | |
| Candor Cyber Intelligence | Aveshka | |
| Capriza | Capriza | |
| Citywide In-Building Wireless Initiative | Government of the District of Columbia | |
| COBRA | U.S. Department of the Treasury | |
| Cognitive Cyber Defense (CCD) | IBM | |
| Collaborative Advanced Analytics and Data Sharing (CAADS™) | Lockheed Martin | |
| PushButtonPD™ | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | |
| Digital Service Contracting Professional Training and Development | ICF International | |
| Digital Signature Initiative | U.S. Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service | eSignLive |
| Electronic Immigration System | U.S. Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | Accenture Federal Services |
| Enhanced Perimeter Security System | Hitachi Data Systems Federal | |
| Enterprise Platform for Innovation (EPI) | Innocentive Inc. | |
| FCC Customer Help Center | Federal Communications Commission | |
| Federated Person Query (FP2) | U.S. Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Customs and Border Protection | |
| FEMA Mobile App Weather Alerts | U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Federal Emergency Management Agency | The Ambit Group |
| Fraud Detection System | Pindrop | |
| Gov2Go | Information Network of Arkansas | |
| HealthMap | Booz Allen Hamilton & Epidemico | |
| IdentityTheft.gov | Lockheed Martin | |
| Justice Case Management Solution (“JCMS”). | HP Enterprise | |
| Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting e-Reporting | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | CGI Federal |
| Montana Business Checklist | Montana Interactive | |
| my USCIS | U.S. Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | |
| Perfect Power Microgrid | Illinois Institute of Technology | OSIsoft, LLC |
| Pesticide Submission Portal | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | CGI Federal |
| Probation Universal Mobile Application (PUMA) | County of San Diego Probation Department | HP Enterprise |
| RadResponder | Microsoft | |
| ReachOut | Infosys Public Services, Inc. | |
| Real-Time Health System - Infectious Disease Tracking | HP Enterprise | |
| VATracked Item Recommendation Engine (TIRE) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | |
| Trusted Application Broker Service (TABS) | TASC, An Engility Company | |
| U.S. Decennial Census (2020) | U.S. Census Bureau | SAS Institute/SAS Government Solutions |
| Undersea Warfare Rapid Innovation Center Events | U.S. Department of the Navy | |
| VA Enterprise Health Management Platform (eHMP) | ASM Research |
Program Descriptions
Acquisition Gateway, General Services Administration
The Acquisition Gateway is the first element of a vision for a tool that becomes the "desktop for the acquisition workforce. It aggregates government-wide data, curated articles from subject matter experts, and user-centered digital tools in a single site. Gateway users connect through an integrated community. The Gateway is the primary outlet for category management activities in government, with information on contracts and pricing. It also features public access, which promotes transparency and cooperation.
Ares Mobile Biometric Solution, InCadence Strategic Solutions
The combination of Ares software, IB fingerprint sensors, and commercial Androidbased smart phones and tablets, provides the most cost-effective, light-weight, small-footprint capability in the marketplace. The business space for this innovation includes any local, state, and Federal law enforcement personnel who come into contact with potentially criminal suspects during the course of their jobs. It will enable agents in the field to receive near-real time identity information on a suspect wherever they have cellular service or WIFI access to the Internet, worldwide.
Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System (BRICS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes for Health and Sapient Government Services
Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System (BRICS) is a collaborative and extensible web-based bioinformatics platform to support the collection of research studies and clinical trials, using a set of modules that cover all stages of the research life cycle. These provide a combination of web-based functionality and discrete, downloadable tools designed to work together or in isolation supporting research requirements like data definition, submission, search, security, and access throughout the research life cycle. BRICS is used within the NIH community, the extramural research community and the DoD, supporting global research efforts related to Parkinson’s disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Global Rare Diseases.
Blackphone 2, Silent Circle and TESSCO Technologies Inc.
Silent Circle is delivered through a revolutionary platform of devices, software and services, built on its proprietary ZRTP technology, a fundamentally different, cloud-based, mobile architecture. Calls made from Silent Phone user to Silent Phone user offer complete end-to-end encryption, which means that no one - not even Silent Circle - can listen in on your calls. Silent Circle's Blackphone 2 smartphone is the most secure Android smartphone there is. With its built-in encryption, Spaces virtual phones, fine grain application control and commitment to fast software updates, Blackphone 2 is the smartphone your CISO will want your CEO to use.
Candor Cyber Intelligence, Aveshka
Enterprises are spending millions of dollars on proprietary cyber tools without an integrated view of risk. These tools range from threat monitoring, SIEMs, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, network traffic analysis, and log analysis. Aveshka’s Candor™ Cyber Intelligence platform integrates, enriches, correlates, analyzes, visualizes, and shares cyber threat, asset, vulnerability, and risk information from one unified interface. It fuses open source, corporate, and third-party data sets and tools in both structured and unstructured formats. Candor™ applies natural language processing and custom analytics to monitor cyber attacks in real-time and identify risk trends and proactively address them before they result in compromise.
Capriza modernizes businesses by simplifying and mobilizing legacy applications. Capriza's end-to-end simplification platform enables IT and lines of business to mobile-enable critical business workflows in a matter of days without any coding, APIs, or integration. The solution is applicable for packaged applications such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce as well as custom built solutions. Capriza disrupts the speed and economics of the journey by extending the capability of legacy applications, in a simple and useable way, onto any smartphone, tablet or desktop.
Citywide In-Building Wireless Initiative, Government of the District of Columbia
The District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) DC-Net program created the Citywide In-Building Wireless Initiative (C-IBW) to positively impact the wireless capability within the District of Columbia. Specifically, C-IBW ensures optimal wireless signal coverage with minimal “dead spots” that inhibit mobile communications. This initiative has gained measured success by creating public-private partnerships that promote technology procurement competition and measurable cost reductions.
COBRA, U.S. Department of the Treasury
COBRA is a financial/budget workflow tool which aims to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations by centralizing data and work processes related to budget formulation, pricing, billing, collections, and the movement of funds within the financial system of an organization. COBRA was built to serve the Treasury Shared Services Program but its benefits can extend to a variety of budget environments.
Cognitive Cyber Defense (CCD), IBM
Cognitive Cyber Defense (CCD) is a big data and analytic innovation that employs advanced analytic techniques to detect cybersecurity threats in real time. It is an integrated solution with proven machine learning models from IBM with the ability to build new families of cyber models to react to the ever changing Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) environment. It is intended to address threats that traditional security mechanisms are unable to detect.
Collaborative Advanced Analytics and Data Sharing (CAADS™), Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin’s Collaborative Advanced Analytics & Data Sharing (CAADS™) platform makes data science tools accessible to subject matter experts, scientists, executives, researchers and others through a single interface with minimal training and no coding. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) piloted CAADS to support the response to the largest recent HIV outbreak in the USA. The CAADS analysis allowed CDC officials to reduce the analysis time by a factor of six, while enhancing the interaction between data scientists and officials, and generating insights that can be used to prevent or mitigate future outbreaks.
PushButtonPD™, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The DHS PushButtonPD™ is a self-contained, Excel Macro workbook capable of drafting a Federal Position Description (PD) and its associated Human Resource (HR) forms without extensive training; shortening the current process from weeks/days to days/hours. It is designed to present language from multiple authoritative sources and standards for duty, task, and KSA (knowledge, skills, and abilities); rapidly capture the position requirements; and present them in a package that can be easily integrated into the agency’s current HR processes; and also capable of local customization without tech support. The tool is currently available for federal-wide pilot under OMB Memorandum 16-04.
Digital Service Contracting Professional Training and Development, ICF International
Digital service acquisition, including improving and simplifying how citizens and businesses engage the government, is a major challenge. Acquisition professionals who buy digital services must be technical experts as well as change ambassadors. To build a cadre of professionals with these skills, we created a training program that integrates the foundational principles from modern design and development practices—like Agile and human-centered design—and adapted them for learning. We regularly assess and gather feedback from learners in an iterative fashion and tailor the program accordingly to meet their evolving needs and to keep pace with the constantly changing technology landscape.
Digital Signature Initiative, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and eSignLive
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is the government agency responsible for keeping U.S. livestock and poultry healthy and protecting the nation’s food supply, agriculture, natural resources and rural development. USDA APHIS implemented electronic signature technology to speed up its ability to identify an animal’s location and prevent and contain animal disease incidents. It’s through this online permitting and secure authentication that USDA APHIS is able to protect the nation’s food supply.
Electronic Immigration System, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Accenture Federal Services
In 2012, USCIS and DHS determined that the architecture and processes used to develop the original Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) were too unwieldy and inflexible to continue. A new approach was needed. Commercially proven Agile methodologies and lighter weight open source architectures were beginning to transform the way select government systems were developed and deployed. Led by CIO, Mark Schwartz, and Chief of the Office of Transformation Coordination, Kathleen (Kath) Stanley, the new architecture and Agile approach were used as underpinnings for an innovative strategy that became a model for performance-driven contracting for Agile services in the government.
Enhanced Perimeter Security System, Hitachi Data Systems Federal
The Hitachi Enhanced Perimeter Security System incorporates advanced facial recognition and UAS detection in a cloud-based visualization application, Hitachi Visualization Suite (HVS). This solution was developed for the San Francisco 49ers and demonstrated at Levi’s Stadium in 2015 to mitigate emerging threat vectors. The solution substantially enhances public safety by reducing response times and improving detection and is especially effective for large public venues. This unique solution architecture reduces both CAPEX and OPEX costs related to security operations. It is a scalable solution developed from open source technologies and may be readily customized and expanded to meet multiple use cases.
Enterprise Platform for Innovation (EPI), Innocentive Inc.
InnoCentive enables great thinkers within an organization or agency to do things in a way that could never be done before. By connecting your internal resources not only with each other, and reaching out to the power of the best minds, the best thinkers, and people you did not know outside of your agency or organization, you are able to solve the most important problems quickly and efficiently.
FCC Customer Help Center, Federal Communications Commission
The Zendesk powered FCC Customer Help Center leverages AudioEye’s Ally+ Web Accessibility Solution to optimize the site’s access and reach. This combination of solutions provides users an assistive-technology agnostic mechanism to customize the user experience to meet their individual needs. These cloud-based tools provide a reliable, accessible mechanism to enable the public to learn about common telecommunications issues as well as file complaints with the FCC.
Federated Person Query (FP2), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Before the implementation of the Federated Person Query (FPQ2), US Border Patrol agents had to perform various searches in multiple systems, slowing down the time required to process a subject. For example, agents would perform both biometric (e.g. fingerprints) and biographic (e.g. name) searches. FPQ2 allows US Border Patrol agents to submit a single query to perform a search using both biometric and biographic information across a variety of law enforcement systems; marking the first time this capability has been available at DHS. FPQ2 returns a consolidated list of results from the connected systems, saving agents significant amounts of time.
FEMA Mobile App Weather Alerts, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Federal Emergency Management Agency and The Ambit Group
The FEMA mobile app helps minimize loss of life and property through a variety of innovative features. Its newest innovation, the Weather Alerts feature, allows users to select and receive informative National Weather Service alerts on severe weather happening in up to five U.S. locations. The app also contains disaster safety tips, an interactive emergency kit list, storable emergency meeting locations, and a map with open shelters and open FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers. In addition, the app’s Disaster Reporter crowdsourcing feature allows users to take and submit GPS photo reports of disasters that can be viewed on a public map.
Fraud Detection System, Pindrop
Pindrop FDS protects large contact centers by analyzing the audio portion of a phone call to assess the risk that the caller is a fraudster or other threat. Using Pindrop, our customers are able to identify over 80% of risky calls, avoiding fraud losses and improving customer experience.
Gov2Go, Information Network of Arkansas
Gov2Go is a citizen-focused “digital government assistant” that learns about its users then curates and delivers relevant, personalized Arkansas government services and information. It’s a secure platform that knows and tracks users’ government deadlines, alerts them when it’s time to do something, and answers their government questions through an SMS agent. Gov2Go is available everywhere citizens are – on the Web, native iPhone and Android apps, and the Apple Watch.
HealthMap, Booz Allen Hamilton & Epidemico
HealthMap is an online tool with the mission of early outbreak detection. It automatically aggregates more than 200,000 data sources including news aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions, official reports, and social media to monitor disease outbreak and provide real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. Via natural language processing and proprietary algorithms, alerts are tagged, filtered, analyzed, validated, and visualized by our system and public health experts. The result is an interactive, user-friendly, and publicly available Web and mobile tool providing a global overview of disease outbreaks, in 15 languages and updated hourly 24/7/365. HealthMap has strong government sponsorship with unique, strategic collaborations (including FDA, USAID, DoD, CDC, and WHO). It has contributed to global public health through demonstrated early detection of critical outbreaks, including the ongoing Zika outbreak and recent Ebola outbreak.
IdentityTheft.gov, Lockheed Martin
For the first time, identity theft victims can go online and securely establish a free personalized identity theft recovery plan using FTC’s new IdentityTheft.gov website. This new one-stop website enables consumers who are victims of identity theft to rapidly file a complaint with the FTC and then get a personalized guide to recovery that helps streamline many of the steps involved. The site, which is mobile and tablet accessible, offers an array of easy-to-use tools, which enables identity theft victims to create the documents they need to alert police, the main credit bureaus and the IRS among others.
Justice Case Management Solution (JCMS), HP Enterprise
JCMS is a new technology solution designed for courts case management systems that provides an innovation user experience while increasing efficiencies for each of the constituents that participates in our courts and justice systems. JCMS refines court processes and expedites the judicial system through automating previously manual functions, simplifying often redundant case processing functions, providing improved information sharing capabilities and creating data analytics specific to the needs of the user.
Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting e-Reporting, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and CGI Federal
The EPA’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule requires firms that perform lead abatement work to certify and train their works in the use of lead-safe work practices and to recertify every five years. Since Rule commencement in 2010, the certification process (including submission and payment) has been largely paper-based. The RRP e-Reporting initiative aimed to eliminate costly and time-consuming paper-based processes through a simple, easy-to-use, web-based, mobile-ready solution developed using agile processes in advance of a four-fold increase of certification submissions.
Montana Business Checklist, Montana Interactive
The Montana Business Checklist is an easy to use and powerful tool that brings together all of the State of Montana's business permits and licenses in one location. This service will help users navigate through the State of Montana's permitting and licensing and help develop businesses into Montana success stories. The Montana Business Checklist can be used for new or existing businesses.
my USCIS, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
myUSCIS is a new digital service that is a major paradigm shift from traditional call centers to digital services. The purpose of this service is to offer USCIS customers a wider range of online services. myUSCIS is device agnostic and can be used anytime, anywhere, and on any device. At myUSCIS, you’ll find up-to-date information about the application process for immigration benefits, tools to help you prepare for naturalization, and resources to find citizenship preparation classes and doctors in your community.
Perfect Power Microgrid, Illinois Institute of Technology and OSIsoft, LLC
Illinois Institute of Technology is developing the nation’s first Perfect Power microgrid designed to provide both energy efficiency and demand response (electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption pattern). Designed for the main campus, this microgrid will provide:
• A self-sustaining electricity infrastructure • An intelligent distribution system and system controllers
• Onsite electricity production
• Demand-response capability
• Sustainable energy systems and green buildings/complexes
• Technology-ready infrastructure
• Innovated microgrid controller based on data from PMUs (phasor management unit).
This flagship system will serve as a model for other universities, municipalities, developments and any facility looking to establish a more self-sustaining, efficient operation.
Pesticide Submission Portal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and CGI Federal
When pesticide producers sought to distribute a pesticide product, request a permit for testing pesticides under development, report product safety concerns, or file a petition for establishing tolerance with EPA, industry used an electronic dossier to build registration materials, compiled the materials into a zip file, saved the file to a compact disc, and mailed that disc to the government. No electronic means existed for agency-industry collaboration and data-sharing to support registration, resulting in a cumbersome, time-intensive process. The development and launch of PSP changed the pesticide submissions paradigm, introducing a web-based, mobile-ready process for registration requests.
Probation Universal Mobile Application (PUMA), County of San Diego Probation Department and HP Enterprise
PUMA is a HPE developed mobile case management application used by San Diego County Probation Officers to efficiently manage their offender caseloads in the field; thereby, enhancing their operational effectiveness while controlling costs. The application was partially developed in response to California legislative changes to reduce the state’s prison inmate population by reassigning low-level offenders to be supervised at the local county level.
RadResponder, developed in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, is a collaboration between FEMA, DOE, and EPA. It is a cloud based system that enables a self-assembling, just-in-time emergency response across all levels of government. Through freely available mobile apps, RadResponder’s 1,000 Federal, State, and Local emergency response organizations seamlessly collect, analyze and share radiological data through an open Microsoft Azure Government Cloud environment that automatically surges to support a disaster. In less than two years in full production, this innovative approach has established RadResponder as the national standard and whole community solution for the management of radiological data.
ReachOut, Infosys Public Services, Inc.
Infosys ReachOut leverages the power of mobility and analytics to connect the people-in-need with assistance and basic services in real-time. It enables agencies to help people-inneed access basic services in a timely and cost-effective manner, engage volunteers in service delivery, and generate actionable insights to optimize operations and costs.
Real-Time Health System - Infectious Disease Tracking, HP Enterprise
Modern Electronic Health Records (EHRs) do not provide all the data necessary to provide complete and optimal healthcare. The real-time health system (RTHS) fills the data gaps for connected patients (patients using health metric and location detection and tracking devices) by integrating data from multiple data sources into traditional EHR systems. Leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, mobility and cloud technologies, the RTHS provides greater situational awareness to improve patient outcomes by detecting medical events and intervening early. To showcase the power of the RTHS, we implemented an infectious disease tracking use case on our demo RTHS platform.
VA Tracked Item Recommendation Engine (TIRE), Department of Veterans Affairs
The largest cost in the time it takes to complete a Veteran’s disability claim is the process of collecting the evidence needed to support the Veteran’s claims, a process driven by complex policies and procedures that claims processors are legally required to know and follow. The Tracked Item Recommendation Engine (TIRE) uses machine-learning algorithms to mine Veteran Affairs databases to “teach” a computer how to recommend to a claims processor the evidence that will be needed to complete the disability claim. The optimal result: reduced claims processing time, speeding critical benefits to our nation’s Veterans.
Trusted Application Broker Service (TABS), TASC, An Engility Company
Bringing Innovation into the government is a consistently difficult problem with many past failures and few successes. The result, great ideas don’t see the light of day, depriving users of critical capability and costing companies time and money attempting to do business with the government. TABS is a broker service that finds great innovation for the government, provides application developers with an understanding of government mission needs and technical environment, supports the developers in accessing government data, tests the capability and then recommends to the government that the capability be added to the government’s AppStore.
U.S. Decennial Census (2020), SAS Institute/SAS Government Solutions and ConnellyWorks
The upcoming 2020 Census will span an increasingly diverse U.S. population of over 330 million people across 140 million households. The Census Bureau has committed to conducting the Census at the same or lower cost-per-housing unit as occurred in 2010. The Census team is creatively developing and applying innovative business processes to existing technologies in order to maximize cost savings and minimize risk, while maintaining high quality results. This approach drastically reduces the cost of expensive in-person follow-up visits with households and is estimated to save over $5 billion from the cost of repeating the 2010 Census design.
Undersea Warfare Rapid Innovation Center Events, U.S. Department of the Navy
In 2015, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Newport opened its Rapid Innovation Center (RIC) where it hosted several innovation events. Based on similar innovation spaces created by industry leaders such as IDEO and Google that offer modern workspaces proven to spark creativity, the RIC is fully furnished with state-of-the-art technology and is equipped for innovators to hit the ground running. More important than the space itself, however, are the events and activities taking place in the RIC. Hack-a-thons and design thinking workshops are beginning to reinvigorate the innovative culture upon which the Navy’s Warfare Centers were founded.
VA Enterprise Health Management Platform (eHMP), ASM Research
eHMP improves clinical care for our nation’s veteran population as a cornerstone in modernizing the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA). Beyond providing an integrated inpatient and outpatient electronic health record to optimize quality medical care for veterans and their families, this platform strengthens and expands Veteran healthcare services, enables greater interoperability of systems and healthcare information, and meets the highest security standards of patient data.
Igniting Innovation 2015 Award Winners
Overall Winner
New York City Department of Transportation: NYCStreets Permit Management
Top 8 Finalists
General Services Administration: Building Information Modeling (BMI) and the Central Facilities Repository (CFR)
Transportation Security Administration: TSA Pre✓®
National Cancer Institute and ICF International: Smokefree.gov Initiative
U.S. Department of Agriculture and NGA.NET: "One USDA" Program
New York City Department of Transportation: NYCStreets Permit Management System (winner)
General Services Administration: Open Data in Motion
Social Security Administration and Lockheed Martin: Innovative Architecture Exploits Big Data to Prevent Fraud and Misuse
Department of Homeland Security, REI Systems, Inc., Citizant, and Booz Allen Hamilton: DHS Management Cube
Dynamite Award Winners
Citizen Impact – Transportation Security Administration: TSA Pre✓®
Incubator – State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology: PEAK Real Time Eligibility
High Risk, High Reward – U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and SyntheSys LLC: Emergency Medicine Management Tool (EMMT) Process Analytics Application
3 Rs (Recycle, Reduce & Reuse) – Social Security Administration and Lockheed Martin: Innovative Architecture Exploits Big Data to Prevent Fraud and Misuse
Most Disruptive – U.S. Army and NCI Information Systems, Inc.: Army NETCOM Secure Passive Optical Network (SPON)
- See Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel's keynote address
- Igniting Innovation featured on ABC 7's Government Matters
- Igniting Innovation Press Release
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners!
Overall Winner
Environmental Protection Agency and INDUS Corporation: How’s My Waterway? (Video)
Top 8 Finalists
U.S. Department of Commerce and Small Business Administration: BusinessUSA (Video)
Customs and Border Protection, Office of Information and Technology, BEMSD and Dev Technology Group: Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection Iris Pilot (Video)
Irving Burton Associates, Inc. /Vision Center of Excellence: Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry (Video)
Federal Acquisition Institute: Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System (FAITAS) Certification Management and Continuous Learning Modules (Video)
General Services Administration: GSA Connect Cloud Agile Application Platform (Video)
Environmental Protection Agency and INDUS Corporation: How’s My Waterway? (Winner) (Video)
Department of Veterans Affairs and Agilex Technologies, Inc.: Department of Veterans Affairs Mobile Health Family Caregiver Pilot for Clinic in a Hand (Video)
Creative Information Technology Inc.: Patient Buddy (Video)
Dynamite Award Winners
Citizen Impact – Federal Emergency Management Agency: Integrated Public Alert and Warning System
Incubator – Creative Information Technology Inc.: Patient Buddy
High Risk, High Reward – Customs and Border Protection, Office of Information and Technology, BEMSD and Dev Technology Group: Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection Iris Pilot
3 Rs (Recycle, Reduce & Reuse) – U.S. Department of Commerce and Small Business Administration: BusinessUSA
Most Disruptive – The MITRE Corporation: Full Motion Video Optical Navigation Targeting
Congratulations to all!