AFFIRM

AFFIRM is pleased to release its 13th Annual Federal Chief Information Officer Top-Ten Challenges Survey.

The survey includes discussion of the top IT and IT-related challenges, critical technologies/solutions, and perspectives on specific issues facing the federal CIO community.

For thirteen years now, the Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM) Emerging Issues Forum has conducted annual surveys of the senior federal Information Technology (IT) community to determine the most critical challenges facing the federal Chief Information Officer (CIO). We have also asked what technologies are considered most critical to implementing IT-based solutions. In addition, we have included a set of questions intended to help the CIOs and other government executives explore a few specific issues.

The participants in the survey process represent a broad spectrum of executive and management levels in the federal IT community. As such, the results do not solely represent the thinking of federal CIOs, but rather are a reflection of the broader federal IT community.

AFFIRM hopes the survey results will prove useful to individual CIOs, the CIO Council, and industry in understanding the key challenges the CIO will face as we enter 2009 and a new Administration. We will continue to sponsor other similar studies to advance the state of knowledge and practice in managing federal information resources and solicit your ideas, involvement, and comments.