Takai: Let's All Work Together

Teresa "Teri" Takai, who President Obama nominated as the Defense Department's chief information officer on Monday, taped a video message for her workers in February that could easily be applied to Defense: work together more effectively.

Takai taped this piece to address new information technology policies and consolidation that will result from an executive order issued by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that also defined targets and time lines for IT consolidation and shared services, including data centers, network unification, e-mail and antispam/encryption services.

Sound familiar?

Takai told her workers the objective of the order was to "provide more services for the dollars that we are spending on IT, and more importantly, to change the way we're delivering services, as I said, to be sure that they are more secure, to make sure that they're more reliable."

It sounds like she already has a grasp on the challenges she could face if confirmed for the Defense CIO job.