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The government's chief information officers say they are becoming more visible within their organizations and are gaining clout with management, a new survey reports. CIOs increasingly find themselves with a place at the table of senior agency executives, according to the survey by the Information Technology Association of America. ITAA, an Arlington, Va., industry group, conducted and released the survey last month. A prevailing observation that came out of this survey is that many federal CIOs are poised and eager to lead their agencies into the future. That is a change from last year's survey, which showed that CIOs felt they were not part of the executive team, said Olga Grkavac, executive vice president for ITAA's enterprise solutions division.