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Michael Kratsios

Former U.S. CTO Todd Park speaks at a FedScoop event in 2014. (FedScoop)

What, exactly, is a U.S. CTO?

A look back at the relatively short history of the White House's chief technology officer role and accomplishments of the first four people to hold it.
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Defense Innovation Board Meets in Washington, D.C.
The chair of the Defense Innovation Board, Eric Schmidt, technical advisor at Alphabet, Inc., opens the public meeting of the board, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2018. (DOD / Lisa Ferdinando)

Eric Schmidt and other founding Defense Innovation Board members depart

Eric Schmidt and other influential DIB board members, including Jen Pahlka, ended their four-year terms offering DOD advice on how to work better with tech.
The Jet Propulsion Labs’ Team RoboSimian 275-pound robot climbs out of a Polaris vehicle after driving through obsticles during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge at the Fairplex June 5, 2015 in Pomona, California. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Victoria Coleman named DARPA director

Coleman brings more than three decades of experience in government, academia and the private sector, working in leadership roles at companies like Atlas AI, Yahoo!, Nokia, Samsung…
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