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Information Chiefs In The News
by Heather Greenfield
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Peter Cuviello, who was chief information officer for the Army, has a new mission. He has been snared from Lockheed Martin by the management and technology consulting firm BearingPoint to serve as a senior strategist in the aerospace and defense sectors.
Cuviello plans to focus on network-enabled operation support initiatives, including the Defense Department's architecture framework, battlespace and situational awareness, information technology security, and business intelligence.
During his 36 years of Army service, Cuviello oversaw the $5.6 billion IT budget, and from 2000 to 2003, he transformed that service branch into a network-centric and knowledge-based force. That work included leading the Army's biometric security efforts and deploying Army Knowledge Online, a portal that continues to serve 1.8 million users.
Just before going to BearingPoint, Cuviello was vice president for business strategies with Lockheed Martin's Savi Group.
BearingPoint also has hired retired Army Maj. Gen. Carl Freeman as a senior strategist. Freeman served as chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, a collective security organization, and as president of the Inter-American Defense College.
At the State Department, meanwhile, CIO James Van Derhoff is retiring at the end of next month. He has not said what he plans to do next.
Van Derhoff took the job and assistant secretary title that went with it in January 2006. He has served in Germany, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Panama and Uruguay, and has held various IT and information management posts during his tenure at State.
Most recently he was the management minister-counselor in Tokyo from 2002 to 2005, which has the second-largest mission budget in the world.
Earlier in his career, Van Derhoff served as director of the regional information management center in Germany, which provides IT support to 125 embassies and consulates in 85 countries in Europe, Central Asia, Near East Asia and West Africa.
And at the Commerce Department, CIO Barry West also recently announced he would retire on the first of the year, according to Federal Computer Week. He follows his deputy CIO, John McManus, who stepped down on Sept. 28, and Deputy Secretary David Sampson, who left in August.
At a Monday panel discussion on cyber crime on Capitol Hill, Art Coviello, president of the cyber-security company RSA, said government CIOs are given plenty of lectures about security but not much in the way of funding to make the changes.
"No wonder the average time of a CIO in this town is two years," Coviello said.
Making The Case For 'Open Source'
Mark Webbink, who recently retired from Red Hat, has joined the board at the Software Freedom Law Center, which provides pro-bono legal services to protect and advance "open source" software, whose underlying code can be viewed, shared and altered.
Red Hat is the premier vendor of Linux and other open-source software, and Webbink served as its first general counsel beginning in 2000. In 2004, he became Red Hat's deputy general counsel for intellectual property, a position he served in until his retirement in August.
"During my time at Red Hat, I came to understand that open-source developers perform their best work when sound legal advice is available to them," he said. "I look forward to working with an organization that provides this essential role to the free and open-source software community."
During his tenure with Red Hat, Webbink wrote and spoke extensively on the subjects of open-source software, software patents and patent reform.
The center made the announcement Webbink is joining the board at its first annual Legal Summit for Software Freedom at Columbia University's law school in New York on Friday. "I am grateful to Mark for putting his wisdom at the service of our clients, for the good of everyone who makes, distributes or uses free software," said Eben Moglen, founding director of the center.
Webbink also is keeping busy as a senior lecturing fellow at Duke University's law school and consults with open-source companies on their business strategies.
Keeping America Globally Competitive
Applied Materials President and CEO Michael Splinter already is promoting competitiveness issues as the new chairman of the Technology CEO Council. The council announced his selection at its annual fall meeting.
The Technology CEO Council also welcomed Micron Technology and its chairman and CEO, Steve Appleton, into the group. Micron is the 10th member of the council.
"America remains the most innovative and dynamic economy in the world, but it's vital that our governmental leaders understand the changing competitive global landscape," Splinter said. "Our leaders must push policies that ensure our workers are well-prepared for 21st-century jobs, that entrepreneurs from all over the world want to build businesses in the United States, and that we enable our companies to tap into world markets."
Splinter takes over for Ed Zander, the chairman and CEO of Motorola. During meetings with Congress last month Zander asked lawmakers to approve funding for a new law that aims to double government funding for basic scientific research and provide programs to improve mathematics and science education.
"America has been the center of innovation for two decades of high-tech growth, but we cannot take for granted that we will lead the next two decades," Zander said. He said that's why such initiatives, along with patent reform and opening global markets, are so critical.
Technology CEO Council companies generate more than $300 billion in annual revenues and employ more than 800,000 workers. It was founded in 1989 and was formerly known as the Computer Systems Policy Project.
Staff News At Tech Daily
Winter Casey, who covers international, tax and nanotechnology issues for Technology Daily, starts a new job at National Journal magazine next week. Casey will be a contributor to the people columns for the magazine and CongressDaily, reporting on the job moves and news of political and policy people in Washington.
Casey started at Tech Daily in April 2004 as associate editor and then became a writer. She will temporarily continue writing her International Roundup column on Wednesdays.
Before joining Tech Daily, Casey had internships at USA Today, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, The Magazine Group, the State Department's international visitors' program and the foreign desk of The Washington Times. Casey also taught English at a private university in Honduras and worked as a director's aide for the American Chamber of Commerce there.
"I have really enjoyed the time I have spent writing for Technology Daily, and I plan to continue to write on areas I am passionate about -- including international issues, technology, government policy and law," Casey said. "I would say above all else it is fascinating to cover issues such as how countries are forming antitrust and intellectual property laws."
Former Tech Daily senior writer Bara Vaida, meanwhile, got married Sunday. Vaida now writes about lobbying issues for National Journal magazine.
Quote Of The Week
"There isn't anybody who deserves it more for the work he's done."
-- Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in response to former Vice President Al Gore receiving a share of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming, "Countdown," MSNBC.
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