Notes From Planet Pablo
My notes on technology in my personal and professional life

Mar

5

Kundra is New Fed CIO

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Vivek Kundra has been named to the position of Federal CIO. As previously noted, I am a big fan of Kundra, based upon his perfomance as CTO of the District of Columbia.

This is a more or less newly created position, not the CTO position that President Obama has promised to create. The job will give Kundra more influence on how the feds execute on IT, and that’s good. Probably not as sexy a job as CTO though. I believe it’s a good move for Obama and the nation, but at the expense of the district. I hope Mayor Fenty pick an equally strong replacement here.

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One Response to “Kundra is New Fed CIO”

  1. paulbailey on March 17th, 2009 12:58 pm

    Well it looks like my man Vivek has gotten wrapped around the wheels of a nasty scandal in his old office. It’s a serious bummer when your head of information security get’s perp-walked out of the building by the FBI. Hope this isn’t a career breaker for Vivek.

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