The tech industry's eyes are on the White House, anticipating President Obama's nomination of the country's first federal CTO. Having indicated that he will look to technology to help solve the nation's myriad socioeconomic problems, Obama likely will focus the CTO on two areas: ensuring that the tech sector gets what it needs from the government in the form of R&D money, tax incentives, regulatory relief, and direct funding; and ensuring that government agencies do a better job of evaluating, deploying, integrating, and supporting IT.
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