The Office of Management and Budget announced seven members for its new Technology Modernization Fund board, drawing IT expertise from across the federal government to oversee the distribution of $500 million in IT modernization funds over the next two years as part of the Modernizing Government Technology Act.
The board will be chaired by new Federal CIO Suzette Kent. The other members named by OMB Director Mick Mulvaney on March 1 are Alan Thomas, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service and the General Services Administration; Mark Kneidinger, director of federal network resilience at the Department of Homeland Security; Matt Cutts, acting administrator for the U.S. Digital Service; Social Security Administration CIO Rajive Mathur; Small Business Administration CIO Maria Roat; and Charles Worthington, CTO for the Department of Veterans Affairs.