People on the Move
Terry Lutes
Henrik G. de Gyor
Craig Luigart
Rick Steele
Charlie Armstrong
J. Adam Fenster
IRS associate CIO for IT services
Terry Lutes will retire at the end of the year after nearly 30 years of service, the IRS has said. Lutes said he plans to work in the private sector.
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The Veterans Affairs Department has named
Craig Luigart deputy CIO for health. Luigart had been serving as VA associate deputy assistant secretary for policies, plans and programs.
VA also named
Robert Kolodner chief health informatics officer, a position he had held in an acting capacity.
Bruce Brody, who has been serving as associate CIO for cybersecurity at the Energy Department, is retiring at the end of the year.
Brody came to DOE in the summer of 2004 from the Veterans Affairs Department.
The Homeland Security Department has tapped
Charlie Armstrong to be its deputy CIO.
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Armstrong, the former CIO of DHS' Border and Transportation Directorate, started in mid-September and replaces
Rear Adm. Ronald T. Hewitt, who had been acting deputy CIO since April. Hewitt has returned to his previous position as Coast Guard CIO.
The Agriculture Department announced earlier this month that
Dave Combs is now its CIO, after having served in an acting position for the past three months.
Combs had been acting deputy CIO since June 2004.
Alan Wade, CIO of the Central Intelligence Agency'and until the creation of the Office of Director of National Intelligence, head of CIOs in the intelligence community'has retired after 36 years with the agency.
An agency spokeswoman said the CIA's new CIO is
Al Tarasiuk Jr., another career officer with the agency.