The much respected California CIO Teri Takai will be named the Defense Department CIO, insiders confirm. She told her staff yesterday. The Takai appointment was first reported by NextGov’s Bob Brewin, but the official announcement could come very soon, insiders say...

Today, of course, marks the anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States — and there are all sortsof assessments of his first year going on right now...

The DorobekInsider has learned — and confirmed — that Energy Department CIO Tom Pyke notified his staff that he is retiring from that post...

It has been one of the worst kept secrets in town, but it is now official — Adrian Gardner has been appointed the chief information officer forthe NASA Goddard Space Flight Center...

Somehow it feels that the White House it clearing off its desk before the end of the year. What else would explain Tuesday’s announcement that Howard Schmidt would be the Obama administration’s cybersecurity coordinator — just shy of seven months after the creation of the post was originally announced...

Everybody pretty much saw this coming — with so many agencies… is dragging their feet too strong… how about — having failed totransition to the Networx telecommunications contract, Sens...

Social networking — it is a term that has increasingly grown to make me cringe. And it is more then just semantics. Regular DorobekInsider readers and listeners to Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris know it has been something of a campaign...

We have been telling you about a number of management reorganizations going on at a number of federal agencies — the Department of Health and Human Services… the Department of Veterans Affairs has named W...

One of the more interesting stories of the year in government IT is the transition to the new Networx telecommunications contract — or lack of transition, to be honest...

GSA CIO Casey Coleman has been awarded the Tech Council of Maryland’s Government CIO of the Year award. From the GSA release: GSA’s Coleman Named Government CIO of the Year By Tech Council of Maryland WASHINGTON – Casey Coleman, U...

We have been telling you about a number of management reorganizations at a number of agencies… Of course, the Agriculture Department has quietlyundertaken a significant reorganization of its agency management — read more here… There were also changes at the top ranks of the Department of Veterans Affairs management organization… The Department of Health and Human Services is also reorganizing its management structure, according to a Federal Register notice, creating the Office of Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Resources and Technology...

The plan — and you can read all the documents here — essentially creates an uber-USDA "Departmental Administration" that includes most of the management functions — procurement, IT, HR, finance and budget — all under one umbrella.

Agriculture Secretary Thomas Thomas J. Vilsack last week rolled out a major management reorganization of the agency that downgrades the roles of the USDA chief information officer and chief financial officer...

Two names in the government IT community have found new homes. Charles “Chuck” Christopherson Jr., the former chief information officer and chief financial officer at the Agriculture Department, has joined SAP as senior vice president of industry solutions...

The hottest ticket in town — by far — is Input’s breakfast on Thursday, Oct. 8 featuring Roger Baker, the CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs...