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.
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.
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 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by George W. Bush,was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,by Donald Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895,and by Joe Biden's February 1,2021,Executive Order 14007.
Dr. Dale W. Meyerrose, Major General (Retired) was the first President-appointed,Senate-confirmed Associate Director of National Intelligence/Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Information Sharing Executive for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Hugo Teufel III is an American lawyer and former government official.
The United States government's Information Sharing and Customer Outreach office or ISCO was one of five directorates within the office of the chief information officer (CIO) under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). ISCO changed its name and function to Information Technology Policy,Plans,and Requirements (ITPR) in July 2007. Established by at least February 2006,ISCO is led by the Deputy Associate Director of National Intelligence for Information Sharing and Customer Outreach,which is currently Mr. Richard A. Russell. ISCO's information sharing and customer outreach responsibilities extend beyond the United States Intelligence Community and cross the entire U.S. government.
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.
Michele E. Goins was the chief information officer and senior vice president of Juniper Networks,a multinational networking products company.
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.
Priscilla Guthrie joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as the Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Information Officer on May 26,2009. She was previously Director of the Information Technology and Systems Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses,a non-profit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers to provide objective analyses of national security issues. From 2001 to 2006,she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Department of Defense,where she was responsible for information support to deployed forces. Prior to her position at the Pentagon,Ms. Guthrie was a Vice President of TRW Inc.,where she established and led a small,global unit responsible for driving new IT technology into the company's business. She also served in several other positions at TRW,Inc. during her career. Ms. Guthrie holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Marymount College.
Nitin Pradhan served as the Departmental Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the US Department of Transportation (DOT) as part of the Obama Administration from July 6,2009 to August 31,2012. After leaving US DOT,Pradhan established and led the nation's first Federal Technology Accelerator and Partner Consortium called Public Private Innovations and later cofounded GOVonomy,an emerging products technology marketplace for the public sector as well as ScaleUP USA,a Digital Business Growth Accelerator.
Chris C. Kemp is an American entrepreneur who,along with Dr. Adam London,founded Astra,a space technology firm based in California,in 2016. He served as the chief information officer (CIO) for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View,California,and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for information technology. While at NASA,Kemp partnered with Google and Microsoft and helped in the creation of Google Moon and Google Mars. He worked with the White House to develop the cloud computing strategy for the United States Federal Government and co-founded OpenStack,an open-source software project for cloud computing. He was also one of the founders of Nebula,a company that from 2011 to 2015,worked to commercialise the technology.
Mae E. De Vincentis is a former United States Department of Defense official and the vice director for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) since August 2010. DLA is a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)’s combat logistics support agency,providing logistics to the military departments and the Unified Combatant Commands. De Vincentis was the agency's second in command until retiring from the DLA in 2012 and subsequently founding the DLA Foundation.
Carole Post is the vice president of facilities and public safety operations at the University of South Florida. She assumed this role after serving as the City of Tampa’s administrator for development and economic opportunity. She previously served as the chief administrative officer of USF Health at the University of South Florida. She was formerly the executive vice president at New York Law School,and before that,the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and New York City's chief information officer (CIO). She was the first woman to have held such an office of the City of New York.
Cordell Schachter is an American technology manager who has held positions in both public service and commercial firms. He is the Chief Information Officer of the United States Department of Transportation and was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2008 to 2021.
The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act made changes to the ways the U.S. federal government buys and manages computer technology. It became law as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Title VIII,Subtitle D,H.R. 3979.
Linton Wells II is an American public servant and educator who served a total of 51 years in government service. He served 26 years in the United States Navy as an officer,and then was appointed by the President of the United States as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense,serving through two administrations of both parties,both the Democrat Bill Clinton and the Republican George W. Bush. He wrote many books,articles,and white papers on matters of national security,including important texts related to the use of American military capabilities in global humanitarian operations. His expertise focused on the strategic impacts of technological change and on building resilience to natural and man-made disasters as issues of US national security. He shaped,over five decades of public service,current US Department of Defense directives that link policy and technology with public-private cooperation. His writings significantly altered U.S. and international approaches to civil-military engagement,US policy in global humanitarian assistance,and global public-private partnerships in disaster relief. He has also made fundamental contributions to technical areas that have defined network-enabled military capabilities and cyberspace operations. After retiring from public service,he continued to contribute to the international STAR-TIDES network that he had founded in 2007,a consortium of several thousand global nodes comprising agencies,organizations,institutions and individuals in 40+ countries that promote the free exchange of research results on global issues of human security. As of 2024 he is Executive Advisor to the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at George Mason University and chairs the Advisory Group of the C4I and Cyber Center there. C-RASC has been working with the People-Centered Internet (PCI) on ways to “put humanity at the center of the Internet”and support a variety of revitalization initiatives. He is on the board of PCI,and also the President and CEO of Global Resilience Strategies and Senior Advisor to Resilient Japan. He was listed by Fortune magazine in 2009 as one of the top 16 "Players of Tech".
Suzette Kuhlow Kent is an American government official who served as Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States from January 29,2018 until July 2020. She was the fourth person to formally hold the job of Federal CIO,which was created by the E-Government Act of 2002. The Federal CIO's office is a part of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
