2011-10-26 Thursday - America's new CIO

Steven VanRoekel recently spoke about his vision for the future of IT in government:
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/americas-new-cio-wants-to-disrupt-government-and-make-it-a-startup.php

A few notable items from the article: 

Defense Department’s human resources management system. Dubbed the “Defense Integrated Military Human Resource System,”...was meant to take seven years to develop. Instead, it took 10, cost $850 million and had to be scrapped after 10 years of development in 2010 because it ended up being useless.

 “Going forward, we need to embrace modular development, build on open standards, and run our projects in lean startup mode,”