President Obama taps veteran CIO Tony Scott as the new federal chief information officer. Scott is the top government IT official whose sole responsibility is to oversee federal IT and IT security. He replaces Steven VanRoekel, another Microsoft veteran, who left the White House job in September. Scott had been serving since 2013 as CIO at VMware, a provider of cloud and virtualization software and services. Scott’s appointment, announced Feb. 5, does not require Senate confirmation. The federal CIO is statutorily the administrator of e-government and information technology in the Office of Management and Budget.”]
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