The Defense Department honored its top performers at the 2004 Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) Award ceremony held Oct. 7 at the Pentagon. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in at least one of seven key areas of information technology (IT) outlined in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996: acquisition; architecture and interoperability; information assurance; management and standards; applications (technology or process); capital planning and investment; and information management/information technology work force.

Donna H. Moore, NAVAIR Deputy CIO for Business Intelligence, won an individual award for leveraging IT to improve efficiency and effectiveness across the enterprise. Moore has been untiring in her efforts to improve the IT capabilities of DoD, the Navy, and NAVAIR and consistently seeks efficiency through enterprise IT solutions. In every case, the systems and technologies she has implemented have provided users with increased capabilities, at significantly reduced cost, to meet current and future requirements.

For more than 20 years, Moore has provided visionary leadership for IT projects at NAVAIR. Her technical expertise, combined with steadfast commitment and visionary leadership, has been the catalyst for numerous command-wide IT initiatives that have had a lasting, positive impact at NAVAIR. In every respect, she has distinguished herself as a premier leader in the field of IT and is truly a credit to the DoD, Navy and NAVAIR.