It’s often taken as received wisdom that federal CIOs are limited in the ways that they marshal new technology initiatives to improve their agencies’ missions because they don’t have the budget to be effective.
That’s not the view at the Department of Transportation.
“I don’t want any money. I don’t need any money,” DoT CIO Vicki Hildebrand said during a recent panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I know that is not a very common thing that you hear from people in government. We have a lot of spend out there we need to spend more wisely.”
To Hildebrand, who spent more than three decades at Hewlett-Packard before decamping to Washington, the government could take a cue from the private sector when it comes to accelerating development and projects like replacing legacy IT, which continues to pervade departments and agencies.
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