Sec. 201. Office of the Chief Technology Officer
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There is established in the Executive Office of the President an Office of the Federal Chief Technology Officer (in this section referred to as the Office ). The President shall appoint a Federal Chief Technology Officer (in this section referred to as the Federal CTO ) who shall be the head of the Office. Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Federal Chief Technology Officer. . The President may appoint additional staff members to the Office.
The functions of the Federal CTO are the following: Undertake fact-gathering, analysis, and assessment of the Federal Government’s information technology infrastructures, information technology strategy, and use of information technology, and provide advice on such matters to the President, heads of Federal departments and agencies, and government chief information officers and chief technology officers. Lead an interagency effort, working with the chief technology and chief information officers of each of the Federal departments and agencies, to develop and implement a planning process to ensure that they use best-in-class technologies, share best practices, and improve the use of technology in support of Federal Government requirements.
Advise the President on information technology considerations with regard to Federal budgets and with regard to general coordination of the research and development programs of the Federal Government for information technology-related matters. Promote technological innovation in the Federal Government, and encourage and oversee the adoption of robust cross-governmental architectures and standards-based information technologies, in support of effective operational and management policies, practices, and services across Federal departments and agencies and with the public and external entities.
Establish cooperative public-private sector partnership initiatives to achieve knowledge of technologies available in the marketplace that can be used for improving governmental operations and information technology research and development activities. Gather timely and authoritative information concerning significant developments and trends in information technology, and in national priorities, both current and prospective, and analyze and interpret the information for the purpose of determining whether the developments and trends are likely to affect achievement of the priority goals of the Federal Government.
Develop, review, revise, and recommend criteria for determining information technology activities warranting Federal support, and recommend Federal policies designed to advance the development and maintenance of effective and efficient information technology capabilities, including human resources, at all levels of government, academia, and industry, and the effective application of the capabilities to national needs. Any other functions and activities that the President may assign to the Federal CTO.
The Office shall serve as a source of analysis and advice for the President and heads of Federal departments and agencies with respect to major policies, plans, and programs of the Federal Government in accordance with the functions described in subsection
(b). The Federal CTO shall be a member of the Domestic Policy Council. The Federal CTO shall be a member of the Federal Cybersecurity Practice Board. The Office may secure, directly from any department or agency of the United States, information necessary to enable the Federal CTO to carry out this section. On request of the Federal CTO, the head of the department or agency shall furnish the information to the Office, subject to any applicable limitations of Federal law. On request of the Federal CTO, to assist the Office in carrying out the duties of the Office, the head of any Federal department or agency may detail personnel, services, or facilities of the department or agency to the Office. The Federal CTO shall publish, in the Federal Register and on a public Internet website of the Federal CTO, an annual report that includes the following: Information on programs to promote the development of technological innovations. Recommendations for the adoption of policies to encourage the generation of technological innovations. Information on the activities and accomplishments of the Office in the year covered by the report. The Federal CTO shall submit each report under paragraph
(1)to— the President; the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.