Federal 100: William "Bill" Marion II
Name: William "Bill" Marion II
Title: Chief Technical Officer
Air Force Space Command
Agency: Department of the Air Force
The unifier. Marion is reshaping the way airmen and women communicate. Under his guidance, unified communications have taken flight in the Air Force, and he played a crucial role in deploying a mobility solution that allows users to encrypt and decrypt sensitive email messages and access 100,000 native applications. Next on his to-do list is expanding access to data via a private cloud. Marion also has social-media savvy: He has kept the federal IT community informed of the latest trends with more than 11,000 tweets.