§3603 Chief Information Officers Council

Summary

Creates a Chief Information Officers Council in the executive branch. The Deputy Director for Management at OMB is the chair. Members include the Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government, the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the chief information officers of agencies listed in section 901(b) of title 31, the CIA CIO, the Army, Navy, and Air Force CIOs if they are designated under section 3506(a)(2)(B), and anyone else the chair names. The Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government leads the Council’s work for the Deputy Director. The Council picks a Vice Chair from its members for a 1-year term, and the General Services Administration provides support. The Council is the main interagency group for improving how federal information resources are designed, bought, built, updated, used, run, shared, and measured. It must talk with state, local, and tribal government reps. Its jobs include advising the Director on policy, sharing best practices, helping the Administrator coordinate multiagency IT projects, promoting common performance measures under this chapter and title II of the E‑Government Act of 2002, working with NIST on standards under section 20 of the NIST Act (15 U.S.C. 278g–3) and section 11331 of title 40 (using commercial standards when suitable, including interoperability, information categorization under section 207(d) of the E‑Government Act, and efficiency and security), and working with OPM on workforce needs and the Archivist on Federal Records Act issues.