Oh, I get it now. The same Aneesh Chopra that was CTO of VA at the time VA purchased SAP and wasted $43 Million. Now, I know what you are going to say, Aneesh was gone by the time SAP was implemented. As CTO, your responsibilities would include evaluating technology, establishing the roadmap for implementation and ultimately procuring SAP. Now this isn't the first a CTO has failed to understand the limitations and difficulties of implementing a product such as SAP. It appears that Aneesh was smart enough to move on before things hit the ceiling. The procurement was under his watch and therefore, the fallout is the responsibility of the person that procured said tool.
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/890542/1208595.html#msg-1208595
Straight Answers Wrote:
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> Just to answer some of the questions here:
>
> The Virginia Senate does have a 20-20 split. The
> next state senate election is in 2015. Until then,
> the lieutenant governor has the deciding vote on
> just about anything where the two parties
> disagree.
>
> Chopra is a common last name, like Smith. There is
> no connection between the woman who ran her car
> onto a bike trail, whose last name is Chopra, and
> the Democratic primary candidate Aneesh Chopra.
>
> Chopra was never the CTO for Washington, DC. That
> was someone else. Instead, Chopra was the CTO for
> the state of Virginia under Governor Tim Kaine and
> was very successful.
>
> Chopra was also the first ever federal CTO,
> pioneering the position, and was very successful
> in that role as well. Look at any of the news
> stories around the time he stepped down for an
> assessment.
>
> Obviously, the NSA program was a top-secret
> program run by the NSA at Fort Meade, not an
> openly recognized government efficency and
> modernization program run by named, public admin
> managers at the White House. Only someone with no
> knowledge of computers or government would confuse
> the CTO of the federal government with the
> classified workers at NSA working on this Prism
> project.