Myers new deputy Defense CIO

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http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0326/web-myers-03-28-01.asp

BY Bill Murray
03/28/2001

In a break from the past, Pentagon officials choosing a deputy chief
information officer opted for someone with more military information
technology experience than Capitol Hill budget know-how.

Margaret Myers, the armed services acting deputy chief information
officer, replaces Paul Brubaker, who left the Pentagon earlier in the
month to become president of public sector e-government services for
Commerce One Inc.

Brubaker got his Pentagon job largely from his experience drafting the
Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 as a Capitol Hill staffer for former Sen.
William Cohen (R-Maine). The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 made it
mandatory for each federal agency to have a chief information officer.
It required CIOs to consider best business practices like outsourcing
and using commercial products when evaluating major systems
acquisitions.

While Brubaker earned his stripes on the Hill, Myers worked for the
Army for 19 years before coming to the Pentagon in 1995. Since then,
shes worked in a series of command, control, communications and
intelligence acquisition oversight jobs.

Myers will work for Art Money, Defense CIO and assistant secretary of
Defense for command, control, communications and information, until he
leaves his job on April 6.

Known at the Pentagon and among vendors as someone who gets the job
done behind the scenes, Myers is less of an outsider than Brubaker.
Like Brubakers predecessor, retired Navy officer Marv Langston, Myers
has military experience, having served in the Army on active duty for
two years and as a reservist for about 20 years.

Army Col. Patrick Lusk has taken the job Myers just vacated as
principal director for the deputy DOD CIO. Lusk will work in that
position for 60 days before returning to his Joint Chiefs of Staff job
as Special Assistant for command, control, communications and computer
investment, Myers said.

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