Does Homeland Security CIO Need More Power?

An interesting article came through from Newsbytes today:

Homeland Security CIO needs more power, IG says

U.S. Inspector General Richard Skinner is saying that the chief information officer for the Homeland Security department needs to integrate the department's IT infrastructure for better communications and information exchange.

According to the article, Skinner believes the HSD CIO is "not well positioned to accomplish these IT integration objectives because the CIO is not a member of the senior management team with authority to strategically manage departmentwide technology assets." DHS officials apparently disagree, contending that the CIO doesn't need to be at a higher level to implement the current plan, which calls for "establishing an integrated enterprise network, common email and help desk; creating two data centers; and initiating a departmentwide video operations capability."

AB -- 12/29/05

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December 29, 2005 4:09 PM |