I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1910 
To create the Office of the Chief Technology Officer within the Executive 
Office of the President. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 2, 2009 
Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To create the Office of the Chief Technology Officer within 
the Executive Office of the President. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Chief Technology Offi-
cer Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND STAFF.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—There is established in 
the Executive Office of the President an Office 
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of the Federal Chief Technology Officer (in this 
Act referred to as the ‘‘Office’’). 
(B) HEAD OF THE OFFICE.— 
(i) FEDERAL CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OF-
FICER.—The President shall appoint a 
Federal Chief Technology Officer (in this 
Act referred to as the ‘‘Federal CTO’’) 
who shall be the head of the Office. 
(ii) COMPENSATION.—Section 5313 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘Federal Chief Technology Officer.’’. 
(2) STAFF
OF
THE
OFFICE.—The President 
may appoint additional staff members to the Office. 
(b) DUTIES OF THE OFFICE.—The functions of the 
Federal CTO are the following: 
(1) Undertake fact-gathering, analysis, and as-
sessment 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 tech-
nology officers. 
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(2) Work to ensure the security and privacy of 
the Federal information technology infrastructure 
and networks, coordinating closely with other Fed-
eral departments and agencies having responsibilities 
regarding security and privacy of the infrastructure 
and networks. 
(3) Lead an interagency effort, working with 
the chief technology and chief information officers of 
each of the Federal departments and agencies, to de-
velop and implement a planning process to ensure 
that they use best-in-class technologies, share best 
practices, and improve the use of technology in sup-
port of Federal Government requirements. 
(4) Provide, within the Executive Office of the 
President, advice on the engineering, technical and 
implementation aspects of information technology 
and information technology infrastructure issues 
that require attention at the highest levels of govern-
ment. 
(5) Evaluate the scale, quality, and effective-
ness of the Federal effort in the use of information 
technology, and advise on appropriate actions. 
(6) Advise the President on information tech-
nology considerations with regard to Federal budg-
ets. 
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(7) Assist the President in providing general 
leadership and coordination of the research and de-
velopment programs of the Federal Government for 
information technology-related matters. 
(8) 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 de-
partments and agencies and with the public and ex-
ternal entities. 
(9) Establish cooperative public-private sector 
partnership initiatives to gain knowledge of tech-
nologies available in the marketplace that can be 
used to improve governmental operations, citizen 
services, and the safety, security, and privacy of in-
formation collected, maintained, processed, and com-
municated by the Federal Government. 
(10) Establish public-private sector partnership 
initiatives to gain knowledge of information tech-
nology research activities underway and planned by 
Federal departments and agencies and in the private 
sector that can improve the use of information tech-
nologies by the Federal Government. 
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