Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel knocked off another point of his predecessor Vivek Kundra's 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal IT Tuesday with the launch of point 11, a technology fellows program.
The program is an offshoot of the government's longstanding Presidential Management Fellows system, a two-year program for recent Master's degree graduates that gives them the option of working at different agencies during their tenure.
VanRoekel has been a less public CIO than Kundra, who he replaced in August, but has quietly followed through on a handful of initiatives, including redefining the role of federal CIOs.
Joseph Marks
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
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