Chief Of The Year: Vivek Kundra

The US government's Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, has been named InformationWeek's Chief of the Year. Nine months into his job, CIO Kundra has demonstrated a compelling vision for overhauling the government's lumbering IT operations (with 71,000 federal IT workers and more than 10,000 IT systems), and his progress is so far impressive.