GOP Delegate New Technology Chief

The Technology new chief are appointed as the names given on this very wednesday. The new chiefs are as under the given applied terms RICHMOND, VA. — Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed a nine-term Republican member of the House of Delegates Wednesday to head the state's troubled information technology superagency.
McDonnell made Del. Sam Nixon the first state chief information officer appointed to head the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and report directly to the governor.
In the seven years since VITA was formed, its overseer — the CIO — reported to an independent board jointly appointed by governors and the legislature.
The agency and its corporate partner, Northrop Grumman, have been under fire for cost overruns and agency reports of poor and tardy service.
The new requirement to report directly to the governor comes from legislation passed this year, a measure intended to make the massive agency more responsive to the executive branch agencies that constitute the majority of state government's computing needs.
VITA has been in turmoil since June, when the board abruptly fired former state CIO Lemuel Stewart after he refused to sign off on monthly payments to Northrop Grumman because of the missed deadlines. A member of then-Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's cabinet, former Technology Secretary Leonard Pomata, briefly held the post before former corporate information technology chief George Coulter took over as CIO seven months ago. Nixon succeeds Coulter.

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