The federal
Chief Information Officer of the
United States
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, 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 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, poli ...
. The
President appoints the Federal CIO. The appointee does not require
Senate
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confirmation. It was created by the
E-Government Act of 2002
The E-Government Act of 2002 (, , , H.R. 2458/S. 803), is a United States statute enacted on 17 December 2002, with an effective date for most provisions of 17 April 2003. Its stated purpose is to improve the management and promotion of electroni ...
.
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The US CIO oversees federal technology spending, federal IT policy, and strategic planning of all federal IT investments. The CIO is charged with establishing a government-wide enterprise architecture that ensures system interoperability, information sharing
Information exchange or information sharing means that people or other entities pass information from one to another. This could be done electronically or through certain systems. These are terms that can either refer to bidirectional ''informa ...
, and maintains effective information security and privacy controls across the federal government.
Clare Martorana is the incumbent CIO.
Officeholders
* Vivek Kundra
Vivek Kundra (born October 9, 1974) 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 offi ...
was the first person to use the title Federal Chief Information Officer. Previous holders of the office used the title Administrator for E-government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget.
* On August 4, 2011, Steven VanRoekel was named to be the second Chief Information Officer of the United States.
* Lisa Schlosser was the acting CIO after VanRoekel resigned in November 2014.
* On Thursday, February 5, 2015, President Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
appointed Tony Scott, who had been serving as leader of the global information technology group at VMware Inc., since 2013, to fill the office. He had served as Chief Information Officer at Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...
from 2008 to 2013, and as CIO at the Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
from 2005 to 2008. Scott served from February 2015 to January 2017.
* In 2017, the acting Chief Information Officer was Margie Graves. She previously served as the U. S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Deputy Chief Information Officer.
* Suzette Kent, formerly a principal of Ernst and Young
Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewaterh ...
, was appointed Federal CIO in January 2018, and left office in July 2020.
* Clare Martorana assumed office on March 9, 2021.
See also
* Chief Technology Officer of the United States
References
Science and technology in the United States
2009 establishments in the United States
Agencies of the United States government
External links
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