Private-sector chief information officers will play a key role in the work of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to Lee Holcomb, director of infrastructure at the White House Office of Homeland Security.
Holcomb, who delivered the keynote address here today at the Homeland Security 2002 conference, heads the IT side of the effort to merge 22 federal agencies into the one new department.
About 80 percent of the country's "critical infrastructure" -- industries including transportation, health care, power supply and financial services -- lies in the corporate world, Holcomb said. His office is assessing the technologies that are used most commonly among the agencies.
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