The Trump administration is seeking to redefine top tech positions in government, allowing political appointees to hold roles traditionally reserved for career federal employees. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management suggests redesignating chief information officer positions to enable appointees to avoid merit-based staffing processes. Critics argue this shift politicizes a role historically deemed impartial, raising fears of governmental censorship and control over tech and data within federal agencies, thus compromising the operational functions essential for the government's technology management.
No longer the station of impartial and apolitical technocrats, the modern agency CIO role demands policy-making and policy-determining capabilities across a range of controversial political topics.
This sounds like another method of censorship and control of the federal career workforce... A president can choose which data to share with the public and which not.
Historically, CIOs have always been regarded as the necessary operational glue that makes government operate.
The change politicizes CIOs... they requested their name be withheld for fear of reprisal.
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