Steven VanRoekel, new US Chief Information Officer

Hey, the good news is that Steven's taken the job held recently by Vivek Kundra, who's done a really good job of making Federal IT more effective and saved a lot of taxpayers dollars.

Steven comes from the FCC, where I saw first hand that he's really good at the same, bringing with him a lot of real-life private industry experience.

There'll be a lot of news on this really soon, but the deal is that I wanted to let people know the good news; I bear witness that Steven's the real deal.

 

 

 

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Comments

[ITtracker]

02:56 PM on 08/04/2011

I'm not sure I fully agree with you on Kundra's reccord. As an observer of federal IT policy, I hope VanRoekel gives Kundra’s Cloud First approach a more rigorous review than it’s gotten to date. There is no consensus definition or understanding about what the Cloud is, or means, when it comes to the government. For example, there are severe limitations in terms of where Cloud-based solutions can realistically, or securely, be deployed in government agencies. Do we really want our Social Security numbers stored in a Cloud?

[thirdcloud]

12:38 PM on 08/04/2011

Craig, your really put your neck out there but then since I follow you we can assume that we/I'm interested in your assessment. It is clearly time for good news.