Defense Department Chief Information Office (CIO) Teri Takai has resigned and Friday will be her last day on the job, DoD spokesman Lt. Col. Damien Pickart said Monday.
No successor has been named, Pickart said, but per rules, DoD Deputy CIO David DeVries will take Takai’s place until an appointment is made. Takai took the helm as CIO in 2010.
The role of the CIO provides strategy, leadership, and guidance to create a unified information management and technology vision for DoD to ensure the delivery of information technology (IT)-based capabilities required to support the broad set of Pentagon missions, according to a DoD statement.
Before arriving at the Pentagon, Takai was CIO for the state of California, leading more than 130 CIOs and 10,000 IT employees spread across the state’s different agencies, boards, commissions and offices.