CIO role

Information Technology Challenges at NASA
Michael Bolger, CIO
NASA Kennedy Space Center

Opening General Session

2008 Southeast Regional Conference
Jacksonville, FL
2 June 2008

This keynote presentation discussed the current IT environment at NASA and the IT challenges that the agency faces as it moves into a new era of space exploration. The CIO from the Kennedy Space Center discussed new strategic directions and supporting initiatives being implemented across the agency to enable future mission success.

NOTES

Michael Bolger began his comments by noting that he had visited the EDUCAUSE website and had seen from the 2008 Current IT Issues Survey that Higher Education and NASA have very similar issues and challenges. NASA has had a long affiliation with universities and colleges and there is a core alliance with university researchers.

Ever wonder what your president really thinks about: the role of technology in higher education; the job of the CIO; career paths; the future? In this hour-long podcast, recorded at the 2008 NERCOMP Annual Meeting, we feature a moderated panel discussion to learn how our panelists took their path to the top and what they learned along the way.

Participants in this conversation, entitled "From Their Viewpoint", include:

• Cheryl Norton, President, Southern Connecticut State University
• S. Georgia Nugent, President, Kenyon College
• Susan Scrimshaw, President, Simmons College
• Session moderator: Joanne M. Kossuth, CIO and Associate Vice President for Development, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

In this 7 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Michael Zastrocky, Vice President and Research Director of Academic Strategies for Gartner, Incorporated. He presented a session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference entitled, "IT Leadership and the Role of the CIO: The Annual Gartner/EDUCAUSE Update".