Information Czar – Vivek Kundra

Information Czar – Vivek Kundra

Title: Federal Chief Information Officer

Salary: unknown

Reports to: Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag

Appointed: March 2009

Agencies that might have handled similar issues: other federal agency CIOs

• Basically in charge of overseeing other federal agency CIOs and for setting technology policy across the government.

• Head of a federal technology budget that amounts to $71 billion annually

• Operation is housed in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and will likely have authority to question how money in departmental technology budgets is used

• Formerly head of the District of Columbia’s technology operations

• Shortly after he joined the OMB, federal authorities raided his old District government office. They arrested two technology office managers and a subcontractor, charging them with a bribery scheme that allegedly defrauded the city out of at least $500,000. Kundra was not a suspect in the case, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

• Has a masters from Maryland in information technology.

• Experience: Washington, D.C. Chief Technology Officer (2007 to 2009); State of Virginia’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade (2006 to 2007); CEO of computer security firm Creostar

(SOURCE: List of Obama Czars by Glenn Beck
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Born in New Delhi, India.

Controls all public information, including labels and news releases.

Monitors all private Internet emails.