Vivek Kundra

Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 16 at 9:42 am PT

The cloud-evangelizing former U.S. CIO takes a job running emerging markets for Salesforce.com.

Federal CIO Kundra Decamps for Greener Pastures of Harvard

Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 16, 2011 at 12:59 pm PT

The cloud-crazy CIO of the United States says he’s leaving government to be a fellow at Harvard University. We offer an early appraisal of his two years in the nation’s service.

Vivek Kundra On Pushing the Federal Government Cloudward

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 25, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

The CIO of the United States oversees the biggest IT budget on the planet. He has a plan to move 78 different government IT projects to cloud-based services and save at least $5 billion within one year. He shared his list with us, and we’re sharing it with you.

Video: Vivek Kundra, CIO Of United States, Talks IT Spending

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 17, 2011 at 4:11 am PT

What would you do with an $80 billion IT budget? That’s Vivek Kundra’s job. In a White House video, he talks about how the government reviewed its IT spending priorities in an attempt get projects running late and over budget under control.

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Obama Administration Launches IT Spending Tracker

Kimberly Chou, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

President Barack Obama’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced this morning the launch of an “IT dashboard” that allows people to see how the federal government is spending taxpayer dollars on information technology projects.

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Tech Industry Cheers as Obama Taps Aneesh Chopra for CTO

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 18, 2009 at 10:08 pm PT

It may not be the Cabinet-level post that some were hoping for, but President Obama finally named the U.S.’s first chief technology officer on Saturday morning during his weekly radio and Internet address. Aneesh Chopra, currently Virginia’s secretary of technology, got the nod and will soon join his former colleague, Vivek Kundra, the national chief information officer, on a team tasked with using technology to make government more efficient.

Guess This Makes Him a Dis-Appointee

John Paczkowski in News on March 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm PT

Obama appointee Vivek Kundra’s new job as chief information officer has gotten off to an inauspicious start. After just a week on the job, Kundra is taking a leave of absence following an FBI raid on the District office he previously led. Yusuf Acar, a D.C. government official who previously worked for Kundra, was arrested on bribery charges this week.

Weekend Update, 03.07.09

Beth Callaghan in News on March 8, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

Will [insert company name here] find a viable revenue strategy any time soon? Everyone’s hustling, that’s for sure. It’s this week’s theme.