For government CIOs, accountability comes without authority

WASHINGTON — Government CIOs may shoulder more responsibility than ever before, but they still struggle with the authority they need to executive their jobs, according to Suzette Kent, CIO of the federal government.

In a keynote address at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Kent observed that federal CIOs have assumed an unprecedented accountability for the successful deployment of IT projects at their agencies, but that’s only one side of the balance sheet.

Memos from the Office of Management and Budget and acts of Congress “recently have mandated that the CIO is accountable, and in some of the legislation it specifically says responsibility for failure,” Kent said.

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