Will new Federal CIO, CTO Change Performance

There are several new faces in DC and it will be interesting to see what their impact on Federal performance management will be. The previous announcement of the Vivek Kundra as the nation's CIO was followed up with this week's announcement that Aneesh Chopra will be the nation's CTO and Jeffrey Zients will be the nation's Chief Performance Officer. This is a high-powered team of professionals that has worked in the city, state, and private sector and have been tasked to work together on bringing accountability back to the Federal government. My hope is that they will take a performance metric approach to accountability and ensure that agencies in the Federal government have a comprehensive performance plan which will be used to analyze effectiveness. I will post articles and comments on their progress moving forward.