Former colleague of former California CIO Teri Takai from her GM/EDS days I hear… White House names VMWare’s Tony Scott as federal CIO
Feds have a new CIO – via VMware, Microsoft, Disney and GM
February 5th, 2015 by admin
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Tags: Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, Tony Scott
Feds have a new CIO – via VMware, Microsoft, Disney and GM
NASA CIO Linda Cureton Retiring; Early Fed Social Media Adopter
April 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Tags: FCW, Federal CIO, Government Social Media, NASA CIO, TechLeader.TV, linda Cureton
NASA CIO Linda Cureton Retiring; Early Fed Social Media Adopter
Linda Cureton announced that she was leaving her position as NASA CIO last month, and she has written an interesting article entitled: The future of the CIO. An early social media adopter, evangelist and blogger as evidenced here: There’s a lot of discussion about the […]
SNAP: Former Fed CIO Labels Big IT Vendors as Cartel-like Obstructionists
September 2nd, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Alice Lipowicz, CES Mail, California Technology Agency, California eMail, Cloud Computing, Department of Defense, Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, Northrop Grumman, TechLeader.TV, Vivek Kundra, northrop, office of Technology Services
SNAP: Former Fed CIO Labels Big IT Vendors as Cartel-like Obstructionists
Former federal CIO Vivek Kundra didn’t pull any punches this week in his article in the New York Times taking large IT vendors to task for their “cartel” like obstruction to real cost savings and efficiencies in the fed’s $80 billion annual investment in technology: […]
Federal CIO’s to have greater authority
August 11th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, state cio
Federal CIO’s to have greater authority
According to a Bloomberg story yesterday: Federal chief information officers will have greater authority to review technology investments, eliminate redundant programs, hire managers to oversee projects and implement security programs for agency networks, according to an Aug. 8 White House memo. The new responsibilities will […]
Are government CIO’s becoming an endangered species
August 10th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Brown Administration, California Technology Agency, Carlos Ramos, DOD CIO, Federal CIO, Governor Brown, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, Teri Takai, alan balutis, meritalk, state cio
Are government CIO’s becoming an endangered species
TechLeader.TV friend and the former U.S. Commerce CIO Alan Balutis writes a provocative column in Federal Computer Week recently entitled: CIO: Really, sincerely dead? His observations should have real resonance for state & local government CIO’s as well. A few highlights: CIOs “are ill-defined positions […]
Former Microsoft Exec Named as new Federal CIO
August 5th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, VanRoekel, Vivek Kundra, microsoft, ridderbusch
Former Microsoft Exec Named as new Federal CIO
Early rumors about President Obama’s appointment of a Microsoft executive to replace Vivek Kundra as the federal Chief Information Officer caused quite the titillation here in Sacramento last week. The state and vendor IT community here had speculated that one of our own, former Chief […]
Who will replace Vivek Kundra as Federal CIO? Several top state & local candidates. Is Teri Takai among them?
June 24th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, Kundra, TechLeader.TV, Teri Takai
Who will replace Vivek Kundra as Federal CIO? Several top state & local candidates. Is Teri Takai among them?
With Kundra announcing his departure to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government next month, speculation has begun about his successor. Here’s a rumor from Federal Computer Week about possible top candidates