USDA already has plans in place for the future of telework when the pandemic is over. Secretary Tom Vilsack recently told 17,000 USDA employees during a virtual town…

GSA has always been pretty good at telework. A model of federal telework, the agency has had most of its workforce on a telework arrangement for several…

In a matter of weeks in the spring of 2020, the Department of Defense moved millions of its personnel to a brand new telework environment called Commercial…

Perryn Ashmore Perryn Ashmore took over officially as the CIO of the Department of Health and Human Services in December. Before that, he was the deputy to…

Vacant; Jack Albright, acting The Department of Transportation’s CIO role is vacant in an official capacity since political appointee Ryan Cote left at the end of Trump’s…

Sean Brune Raj Mathur, a political appointee, served as CIO of the Social Security Administration for most of the Trump administration before leaving last October. Since then,…

Vacant; Dominic Cussatt, acting James Gfrerer led a transformational few years as the CIO of the Department of Veterans Affairs under the Trump administration. But as a…

Keith Jones Keith Jones was tapped by the Biden administration earlier in January as the CIO for the State Department. Jones replaces noncareer appointee Stuart McGuigan, who…

Vacant David Chow, a noncareer political appointee, served as the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s CIO from August 2018 until the end of the Trump presidency.…

Vacant; Beth Cappello, acting The Department of Homeland Security had a number of permanent CIOs over Trump’s term. First, there was the short-lived tenure of Richard Staropoli…