{"id":331982,"date":"2024-12-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=331982"},"modified":"2024-12-14T01:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:56:24","slug":"national-guard-bureau-civilian-receives-dod-cio-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=331982","title":{"rendered":"National Guard Bureau Civilian Receives DOD CIO Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Shawn Achziger, center, an information technology specialist with the National Guard Bureau, with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, left, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, and Leslie Beavers, the acting chief information officer with the Department of Defense, after receiving a 2024 Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Award during a ceremony at the Pentagon Dec. 3, 2024. Achzinger was recognized for migrating the National Guard from the obsolete Joint Information Exchange Environment system to the updated Common Operating Picture system, used primarily during emergency response operations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christy Van Drunen)
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ARLINGTON, Va. – A National Guard Bureau information technology specialist received the 2024 Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Award at the Pentagon Dec. 3. The award recognizes individual and team excellence in information technology and cybersecurity across the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

Shawn Achziger, with the NGB\u2019s Command, Control, Communications, and Computers\/Cyber Directorate, or J6, was honored for his contributions in migrating the obsolete Joint Information Exchange Environment system to an updated Common Operating Picture enterprise environment system. The COP, used primarily during emergency response operations, is a cloud-based tool that provides leaders with real-time information updates to help them make faster, better decisions.<\/p>\n

Achziger is an outstanding branch member who continually seeks to improve cyber and computing processes used by the Guard throughout the 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia, said U.S. Army Maj. Daniel Taylor, chief of the directorate\u2019s Information Management Branch.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis knowledge and drive for supporting NGB and the 54 is why he was submitted for the award,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was pivotal in sunsetting the legacy Joint Information Exchange Environment and transitioning to the new National Guard\u2019s Common Operating Picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

The COP improves situational awareness and coordination between the Guard and state and federal agencies during emergencies, said Taylor.<\/p>\n

\u201cShawn has been a huge resource for our team and is dedicated to supporting the National Guard\u2019s needs in shared situational awareness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, director, Defense Information Systems Agency, highlighted Achzinger\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award reflects the incredible impact you have made by solving complex problems and creating solutions that matter to the mission,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n

Achziger credited his team and leadership for his achievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honored to be selected for this prestigious award,\u201d he said. \u201cThis role, by its very nature, is highly visible and very demanding. Any success I have achieved is because of the dedicated support from my team, my immediate supervisor, and the NGB J6 leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shawn Achziger, center, an information technology specialist with the National Guard Bureau, with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton, left, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, and Leslie Beavers, the acting chief information officer with the Department of Defense, after receiving a 2024 Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Award during a ceremony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331984,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331985,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331982\/revisions\/331985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/331984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}