Under the order, federal department CIOs will be required to report directly to the agency head. The order also elevates CIOs to voting members of bureau-level IT governance boards and affords them increased hiring powers.
“The true answer to modernizing government technology is to build the capacity to conduct change on an ongoing basis,” Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the president and head of the White House Office of American Innovation, said in a statement, according to FedScoop. “By ensuring that agency CIOs are empowered, today’s action by President Trump is a critical step forward in building that change management capacity.”
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