A handwritten sign marked the nondescript building?s street address; nothing identified its significance. Visitors moved through extensive security checks into offices barren except for essentials. Hastily written signs designated staff offices within the building.
We talked about broadband infrastructure for all public safety agencies, shared applications, next-generation 911, and ensuring all emergency dispatchers can find callers with location technology. All were concerned about interoperability of emergency communications. The team was interested in determining the cost of these upgrades for the economic stimulus package. The transition team members we met were very technical and well versed in emergency communication issues and included a past FCC bureau chief. One of the transition team members in attendance was focused on the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) position that President Obama is creating. For those of us who see technology as key to economic resurgence, this new position is heartening.
When thinking about what a CTO for the U.S. can realistically accomplish, it is natural to look at the next closest thing, the performance of the president?s science advisor. President Bush?s appointee, John Marburger, has been the longest serving science advisor since the post was created in 1957.
Last month Marburger created a list of his most significant accomplishments: ?A short list would include: helping to establish a science agency within the Department of Homeland Security, working to prevent the reaction to 9/11 from undermining our participation in global science (student visas, ?science vs. security? issues), helping to develop a rational vision for space exploration, ?freeing up large blocks of the broadcast spectrum for commercial wireless applications??
Over the last eight years, many science issues have become politicized, most notably energy, global warming, and stem-cell policy. In December, Barack Obama appointed Harvard physicist John Holdren as science advisor. Holdren is steadfast in his concern for global warming, a departure from the Bush administration?s stance. As with a science advisor, the CTO will face politicized and polarizing issues as well.
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Source: http://www.jgpservices.net/obama-to-appoint-nation%E2%80%99s-first-cto-january-2009
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