Submission + - New Federal CIO IS Former Microsoft, FCC Exec (rcpmag.com)
msmoriarty writes: The second-ever federal CIO (the first, Vivek Kundra, resigned in June) will be Steven VanRoekel, who worked with Microsoft for 15 years, running the company's Web Services and Platform Strategy and Windows Server Solutions groups. He went to the FCC in 2009, where he then advocated for open government and open platforms. VanRoekel's title on his twitter feed has already been changed to "United States Chief Information Officer."
