A chief financial officer (CFO),also known as a treasurer,is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances . The CFO thus has ultimate authority over the finance unit and is the chief financial spokesperson for the organization.
Chief information officer (CIO),chief digital information officer (CDIO) or information technology (IT) director,is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise who works with information technology and computer systems,in order to support enterprise goals.
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent,nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing,evaluative,and investigative services for the United States Congress. It is the supreme audit institution of the federal government of the United States. It identifies its core "mission values" as:accountability,integrity,and reliability. It is also known as the "congressional watchdog". The agency is headed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The comptroller general is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. When a vacancy occurs in the office of the comptroller general,Congress establishes a commission to recommend individuals to the president. The commission consists of the following:
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting,analyzing,and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. Initially known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) from 1996 to 2003,it is a member of the United States Intelligence Community.
Timothy James Pawlenty is an American attorney,businessman,and politician who served as the 39th governor of Minnesota from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party,Pawlenty served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003,and as House Majority Leader from 1999 to 2003. He unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2012 presidential election.
J. Michael "Mike" McConnell is a former vice admiral in the United States Navy. He served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996 and as the United States Director of National Intelligence from February 2007 to January 2009 during the Bush administration and first week of the Obama administration. As of January 2024,he is the Vice Chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton.
A chief technology officer (CTO) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization. They oversee and supervise research and development and serve as a technical advisor to a higher executive such as a chief executive officer.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is a headquarters-level staff of the United States Department of Defense. It is the principal civilian staff element of the U.S. Secretary of Defense,and it assists the Secretary in carrying out authority,direction and control of the Department of Defense in the exercise of policy development,planning,resource management,fiscal,and program evaluation responsibilities. OSD is the Secretary of Defense's support staff for managing the Department of Defense,and it corresponds to what the Executive Office of the President of the U.S. is to the U.S. president for managing the whole of the Executive branch of the federal government.
A federal enterprise architecture framework (FEAF) is the U.S. reference enterprise architecture of a federal government. It provides a common approach for the integration of strategic,business and technology management as part of organization design and performance improvement.
The Center for Information Technology (CIT) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that compose the National Institutes of Health (NIH),an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),a cabinet-level department of the Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government. Originating in 1954 as a central processing facility in the NIH Office of the Director,the Division of Computer Research and Technology was established in 1964,merging in 1998 with the NIH Office of the CIO and the NIH Office of Research Services Telecommunications Branch to form a new organization,the CIT.
An enterprise architecture framework defines how to create and use an enterprise architecture. An architecture framework provides principles and practices for creating and using the architecture description of a system. It structures architects' thinking by dividing the architecture description into domains,layers,or views,and offers models –typically matrices and diagrams –for documenting each view. This allows for making systemic design decisions on all the components of the system and making long-term decisions around new design requirements,sustainability,and support.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks &Information Integration (ASD(NII)) was an appointed position that provided management and oversight of all DoD information technology,including national security systems. The ASD(NII) also served as the chief information officer (CIO) of the United States Department of Defense (DoD),a position distinct from the ASD and governed by the Clinger-Cohen Act.
The Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT),formerly the Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM),is a component of the U.S. Department of State responsible for providing modern,secure,and resilient information technology and services.
Vivek Kundra is a former American administrator who served as the first chief information officer of the United States from March,2009 to August,2011 under President Barack Obama. He is currently the chief operating officer at Sprinklr,a provider of enterprise customer experience management software based in NYC. He was previously a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
FDIC Enterprise Architecture Framework was the enterprise architecture framework of the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). A lot of the current article is about the enterprise architecture framework developed around 2005,and currently anno 2011 out-of-date.
The federal Chief Information Officer of the United States,also known as the United States Chief Information Officer,is the administrator of the Office of Electronic Government,or the Office of the Federal CIO (OFCIO),which is part of the Office of Management and Budget. The President appoints the Federal CIO. The appointee does not require Senate confirmation. It was created by the E-Government Act of 2002.
The Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS) was a Governor's Cabinet-level agency that provided information technology assistance to state and local agencies,school districts,tribal organizations,and qualifying nonprofit groups in Washington.
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) is an executive department that provides information technology services to other Virginia state agencies. It is headed by Virginia's Chief Information Officer (CIO) who currently is Robert 'Bob' Osmond.
LaVerne H. Council,MBA,DBA was the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer for the Office of Information and Technology within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Council assumed this role in July 2015. President Obama nominated Council to the role in March 2015. Council was confirmed by the 114th Congress on June 23,2015,making Council the first female CIO of a Cabinet-level federal agency. She managed a $4.2B Information Technology (IT) appropriation,the first centralized and only IT appropriation in the federal government.
