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• These are the 2024 winners of the ‘Oscars’ of government service - September 10, 2024

• A team of Labor Department employees who discovered that teenagers were being used to work on dangerous machinery in slaughterhouses across the country won the award for federal employee of the year.

  Sean Michael Newhouse, Government Executive

  When Jerry Ma was announced back in the spring as a finalist for the Sammies — an awards program that honors excellence and innovation in the career federal service — he told Government Executive that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is a “perfect home” for him.
  
  “I believe that technologists can have an outsized impact in making our public service and public administration more responsive to the needs of today, the needs of the 21st century,” said Ma, the USPTO’s director of emerging technology and chief artificial intelligence officer. “By becoming a technologist in public service, I can essentially do my little bit to help reverse this asymmetry between public sector and private sector tech capabilities, which thereby furthers belief in government and our society and our way of life.”
  

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