Guthrie Named ODNI CIO

In case you missed this on Friday afternoon, President Obama nominated Priscilla Guthrie to be chief information officer at the Office of Director of National Intelligence. Guthrie, currently director of the Information Technology and Systems Division at the nonprofit Institute for Defense Analyses, was previously deputy assistant secretary of Defense and deputy CIO in the Defense Department from 2001 to 2006.

My colleague Jill Aitoro wrote last month that Guthrie would be joining a fairly new organization that is still experiencing growing pains as it consolidates 16 federal offices under one umbrella. As CIO, Guthrie would help the intelligence agencies accelerate information sharing and modernize business practices, two areas that were found lacking in a 2008 inspector general's report.

Guthrie's complete White House biography:

Priscilla Guthrie is currently director of the Information Technology and Systems Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonprofit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers to provide objective analyses of national security issues. From 2001 to 2006, Guthrie served as deputy assistant secretary of Defense (deputy chief information officer) at the Department of Defense, where she was responsible for information support to deployed forces. Prior to her position at the Pentagon, Guthrie was a vice president of TRW Inc., where she established and led a small, global unit responsible for driving new IT technology into the company's businesses. She also served in several other positions at TRW during her career. Guthrie is a member of the strategy advisory group for USSTRATCOM, where she chairs the cyber panel, chair of the NSA NC2 review and chair of the Penn State Leonhard Center for engineering excellence advisory board. Guthrie holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Marymount College.