Enabling the business of federal agencies while ensuring security protection of agency and citizen information assets is uppermost on the minds of government CIOs. While the adoption of more rigorous IT enterprise architecture has helped many agencies gain a better overall picture of their IT environments, what they must address is enhanced visibility in order to “crosswalk” through their vast IT portfolios to analyze their investments from multiple business perspectives. From this vantage point, CIOs can better answer business questions about the value to be received from them and be able to develop more accurate pictures of mission gains and risks during project delivery.
Government budget and oversight leaders expect CIOs to have a plan for tackling longstanding issues such as dealing with operating systems that are no longer vendor supported or legacy hardware that can only be maintained by finding high-priced replacements on eBay or cannibalized components. It will also be assumed that agency CIOs will ensure mission-critical applications will always be upgraded with state-of-the-art programming code sets. On top of managing these normal IT expectations, federal CIOs…
