Microsoft Exec To Be Named New Federal CIO

Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, will be named the next federal chief information officer, the New York Times reports.

VanRoekel served as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission starting in 2009. He currently is on detail as an executive director at the Agency for International Development.

He will succeed Vivek Kundra, who announced in June that he would leave his post.

More on this story as it develops.