Owen Unangst
Associate Chief Information Officer
Enterprise Network Services

Owen leads the OCIO Enterprise Network Services division, which research, delivers, and manages enterprise telecommunications services for USDA.

Over the last 27 years, Owen has managed numerous information technology projects for USDA's NRCS and OCIO. He believes collaboration, communications and priority alignment between business and technologies is very achievable with today's technologies and management practices. Previously, Owen headed the Identity and Access Management team and lead the USDA effort to implement HSPD-12 and two-factor authentication, as well as the Enterprise Identity Management System (EIMS), and led the USDA eAuthentication Service from conception to operations. Before that, Owen led the Web Farms project as part of USDA's Electronic Access Initiative and Service Center Modernization Initiative. He has been with the federal government since 1975, and is currently located in Fort Collins, CO.

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