§3603 Chief Information Officers Council

Summary

Creates a Chief Information Officers Council inside the executive branch. The Council is led by the Deputy Director for Management of OMB as chair. Members include the Administrator for Electronic Government, the head of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the chief information officers (CIOs) of the agencies listed in 31 U.S.C. 901(b), the CIA CIO, the Army/Navy/Air Force CIOs if they have been officially named, and any other federal officials the chair picks. The Administrator for Electronic Government runs the Council’s day-to-day work for the Deputy Director. The Council chooses a Vice Chair from its members for a 1-year term and can reappoint that person. The General Services Administrator gives the Council administrative support. The Council is the main interagency group for improving how agencies design, buy, build, modernize, use, run, share, and measure federal information resources. It must meet and consult regularly with state, local, and tribal government representatives. Its tasks include making policy recommendations to the Director, sharing best practices, helping the Administrator start and coordinate multiagency IT projects and innovations, promoting common performance measures under this chapter and title II of the E‑Government Act of 2002, working with NIST and the Administrator on IT standards (including interoperability, ways to categorize electronic information such as XML, and system efficiency and security), and coordinating with OPM on workforce needs and with the Archivist on federal records issues.