What the Federal CIO Thinks a CIO Should Be

NextGov: The role of the chief information officer is changing—as any government CIO will tell you. This is as it should be, according to federal CIO Suzette Kent, who said the modern CIO must have accountability, authority and an expanded skill set not seen in the past.

In government, “the CIO used to have a very specific set of responsibilities and they were more about hardware and infrastructure,” Kent said during a keynote at Thursday’s Foreign Affairs Live, hosted by Foreign Affairs and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center.

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