Obama dismissed the main CIO of the USA

In the statement made by the director of the department of management and the budget Jack Lew there was no hint also on the fact that Kundra's leaving is caused by change of policy of the White House for IT. Lew who highly appreciated work of the Chief information officer, told that Kundra goes for work to Harvard University.

Kundra's appointment to a position of CIO happened several months later after taking office of Barack Obama. He right there stated the agenda in which he noted need of implementation of "clouds", uses of consumer technologies and providing data to the public on the new websites, such as data.gov. Kundra critically spoke of large IT contracts which moved too slowly and were under the threat of failure.

Possibly, there will be questions why Kundra leaves six months later after release of the plan 25 points in which many of his ideas are crystallized. One of the main components of the plan – consolidation and reduction of quantity of data processing centers with more than 2100 to 800 by 2015.

Ray Bjorklund, the senior vice president of the company for marketing researches of FedSources, issued "many praises for really active work" to Kundra, and said that its work was "very positive in general for the government". Bjorklund also asked the question "whether [Kundra] in attempts to fight for a right cause fused".

A kind third from 25 points of its plan should be performed within the first six months, and it did not occur, Byerklund noted. Though progress is made, "I think, now nobody can declare success of any of these points", he told.

Kundra was the technical director of the District of Columbia before its acceptance for work as federal CIO. It meant management of $80 of the billion IT budget, interaction with Chief information officers of the authoritative agencies which number can work in the semiautonomous mode and also performances before the congress.

According to Gartner, an average term of stay of CIO in the state and private sectors - four years and four months.

Byerklund told that selecting new CIO, Obama will want the person who can think of big scales, at the same time realizing complexity of work of the government.

Lew noted that Kundra "brought with himself the vision of the good ideas and tough management style concentrated on achievement of goals - necessary qualities for the solution of the difficult questions facing IT of federal level - aging of infrastructure along with growth of operating costs, a set of unrealized large projects, growth of their vulnerability for external threats. Two and a half years after revenues to work in administration, Vivek worked in this direction".

Kundra is going to Harvard in the middle of August. It will work as the research associate at School Kennedy and the Center of studying of the Internet and Berkman's society. "We plan smooth movement", Lew told.

Vivek Kundra held a position of federal CIO within two and a half years.