Hey there. I’m Christopher Dorobek — the DorobekINSIDER — and welcome GovLoop’s DorobekINSIDER, where we focus on six words: Helping you do your job better. Happy Friday… And the big news on this Friday — the federal CIO, Steven VanRoekel, is stepping down from that post to return to U.S. Agency for International Development toRead… Read more »
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel started off what promises to be a great FOSE 2012 Steven VanRoekel kicked off FOSE 2012 with a bang. He gave an intriguing, educational and creative presentation that gave good insight into what the federal government is doing right now, and how they are solving the problem of innovating on aRead… Read more »
Last week as we posted on GovLoop, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel launched the call for feedback on the National Dialogue on Mobility Strategy. A week later let’s look the top 3 most popular suggestions are: –Develop a shared services catalogue –Encourage Bring Your Own Device policies(see GL discussion thread on Bring Your Own Device) –MobileRead… Read more »
Today I had the chance to attend the AFFIRM Luncheon and listen to Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel speak. AFFIRM President, Darren Ash, served as the moderator for the event. VanRoekel had some interesting observations about the Federal IT landscape. Here are a few themes I picked up from my notes: VanRoekel was at the ConsumerRead… Read more »
I’m looking at the Federal agenda for 2012 as set out a few weeks ago by Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel. This is what I see: Cloud Mobility Modular Development Cyber Security Nothing wrong with this, but it seems to me that for 2012 from a strategic perspective this is looking backward a little. The federalRead… Read more »
The U.S. Chief Information Officer, Steven VanRoekel, announced the creation of a federal government-wide mobile strategy at the Consumer Electronics Show yesterday. The strategy, scheduled for release in March, is intended to help agencies take advantage of each other’s efforts to use mobile technology. To help with the planning effort, VanRoekel has launched a user-friendly(!)Read… Read more »
It was just announced that Steven VanRoekel is the next Federal CIO replacing Vivek Kundra (NYTimes andAlex Howard piece) Van Roekel spent the last couple years at FCC working on the FCC.gov reboot and a number of high profile #gov20 initiative and before then worked as a Microsoft executive. I’ve been a big fan ofRead… Read more »