Consider this your last warning. Want to see the best of government IT honored, and mix with 300+ other government and industry executives at a high-falutin’ awards “do”? You’d best get thee to the ACT/IAC Web site, then, to register for the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards Luncheon, happening from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC, on Tueday. We are honored that Clay Johnson III, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, will be joining us at the event. The 20 finalists will all be there, and we’ll announce the top 5 winners. Wohoo! Those 20 finalists are:

“Top 20” Excellence.Gov Award Finalists for 2007 (listed alphabetically by program name):

1. Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) (Federal Aviation Administration)

2. DefenseConnect (U.S. Army)

3. Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) (Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Management Service (CPMS))

4. Disaster Management E‑Gov Initiative (Department of Homeland Security)

5. Distributed Learning System (U.S. Army)

6. E‑Rulemaking’s Docket Management System (Environmental Protection Agency)

7. Electronic Capital Planning and Investment Control (eCPIC)

8. Enterprise Human Resource Integration (EHRI) (Office of Personnel Management)

9. GovBenefits.gov (Department of Labor)

10. Homeport (United States Coast Guard)

11. Information Collection Request, Review and Approval System (ICRAS) (Department of Health and Human Services)

12. Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE) (General Services Administration)

13. Integrated Common Analytical Viewer (iCAV) (Department of Homeland Security)

14. IRRIS Technology (U.S. Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command Transportation Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA))

15. Justice Information System (JUSTIS) (The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, Government of the District of Columbia (CJCC))

16. Knowledge Services Network (KSN) (Federal Aviation Administration)

17. Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) (U.S. Army)

18. My HealtheVet (Veterans Health Administration)

19. Resource Patient Management System (Indian Health Service)

20. Scientific Coding System OnDemand (National Institutes of Health)