Google-enabled government starts with Obama's CTO

Paul Strassman, a former CIO of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Defense Department's Director of Defense Information, said what the Obama Administration has to do first is to define its management issues and information policy and then the technology will follow. "The question is -- what are the objectives that are is he trying to achieve?" Strassman said. The White House may control the Information Technology budget, but the federal government agencies have their own Chief Information Officers, management, methods and turf.