Federal Government Information Technology

Acting CIOs Still in Place at One-Third of CFO Agencies

Nextgov: Though the Trump administration is making progress filling federal chief information officer positions with permanent officials, about one-third of major agencies still have acting officials in place.

Federal CIOs change after any administration change, but this year has been a particularly dizzying mix of the departures of politically appointed CIOs, retirements and reassignments.

Now 300 days into the administration, six of the 24 CFO Act agencies have acting CIOs leading their tech shops while 17 have permanent officials in place. The Defense Department has yet to announce who is serving as acting CIO after the White House picked its acting CIO John Zangardi to be the permanent CIO of the Homeland Security Department.

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