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Steven Van Roekel newly elected Federal CIO. He was a former manager of Microsoft's senior, held a very high responsibility in the company producing the software - as The New York Times. CIO of the U.S. before he Vivek Kundra, the first to hold the "throne" in the country's IT industry. Mr Kundra has "from the" to return to environmental research at Harvard University.

"FCC Roekel brought to mind." Com ", under which" all is the application programming interface API "(ie the interaction with the database of the Commission and the Commission services must be made ​​through the dedicated programming interface and convenient) - Alexander Howard, the O'Reilly Radar reporter wrote. One of the other period of his leadership in this committee is open Twitter account the FCC . now, this is information-rich channels and interactivity of the U.S. government.

Graduated from the University of Iowa as a specialized "Business and Information Systems", before joining the FCC, Roekel had 15 years at Microsoft. At Microsoft, Roekel had experienced many positions of assistant personnel Biil Gates to senior department director Windows Server and Tools Division. Currently, he in charge of a budget package of $ 80 billion annually (~ 1,632,653 billion) of the U.S. government spend on IT.

Steven Van Roekel to continue a series of projects of his predecessor, Vivek Kundra. Including the deployment of data center 800 to 2015 and of which there may be some need to reconsider. Most of the work of Vivek Kundra is to convert the information infrastructure of the U.S. government from the common platform to the cloud . However, this initiative has resulted in many responses, positive and negative. Many people just do not like the Kundra "to all our eggs in one basket" because of missed major incidents, the entire information infrastructure of the U.S. government is paralyzed.

One of the key tasks of accelerating the development Roekel is creative and improve IT infrastructure of the U.S. government - that is increasing the resources associated with reduced investment costs as well as operation.According to Vice Chairman Jeffrey Zients U.S. budget, the current level of annual productivity growth of the American system of government is only 1.5%, meaning nearly 4 times smaller than the rate of mass private. So Roekel will be a lot of work to do.