Ask the CIO
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Chris Chilbert, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s chief information officer and co-chairman of the small agency CIO council, said the Small Agency CIO and IT Executive Handbook, released earlier this summer, details a “foundational understanding of responsibilities related to IT.”
October 23, 2023 -
While generative artificial intelligence and large language models could transform Navy operations, the service’s top technology official is warning that they also could create operational security risks and would require human review.
October 10, 2023 -
Alan Thompson, the CIO, and Justin Black, the CTO, of the House of Representatives were among the federal IT executives leaving their positions over the summer.
September 05, 2023 -
Venice Goodwine replaces Lauren Knausenberger, who departed in June, as the Air Force chief information officer.
August 15, 2023 -
Leonel Garciga, who has worked as the director of information management for the Army G2 since 2019, will replace Raj Iyer as the service’s lead technology executive.
June 26, 2023 -
The new organization that's now leading technology strategy for the Office of the Secretary of Defense's 19,000 employees thinks it has a workable plan to start treating OSD's 17 disparate components as a coherent IT enterprise.
June 08, 2023 -
The Navy hopes to make dramatic improvements for all of its users within the Pentagon by midway through next month. Similar fixes are on the way for the rest of the service, but may prove more difficult.
May 19, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Newly introduced legislation would give FEHB participants more coverage for some assisted reproductive treatments. Two deadly helicopter crashes lead the Army to hold an aviation-safety stand down. And GAO gets a new CIO next week.
May 01, 2023 -
Michael Chappell is the new CIO at the Army’s Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS), a position that the organization re-established after nearly five years.
April 18, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Navy's former CIO docks his private-sector ship at Google Public Sector. A new Executive Order prevents agencies from using some commercial spyware. And federal employees in Shenandoah National Park have geography to thank for a pay increase.
March 28, 2023 -
Nancy Sieger has been the IRS chief information officer in a permanent or acting basis since 2019 and helped oversee the tax agency’s pandemic IT modernization efforts.
March 08, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The CIO shuffle continues at two agencies. AFGE rejects calls to cut the DoD civilian workforce. And CISA revamps its website and adds a big red button.
February 27, 2023 -
Lauren Knausenberger, the Air Force’s chief information officer, joined the service in 2017 starting at AFWERX before ascending to the CIO’s role for the last two-plus years.
February 23, 2023 -
The CIO council convened a symposium to tackle "fraud prevention and detection" after potentially tens of billions in pandemic relief funds were stolen by fraudsters.
February 22, 2023 -
Aaron Weis, the Department of the Navy’s chief information officer, wrote to staff that his last day is March 17.
February 21, 2023
