For immediate release: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Contact: Oversight and Government Reform Press Office, (202) 225-5051

Oversight Committee to Examine Government-wide Transition to Cloud Computing

Washington – On Thursday, July 1, 2010, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement will hold a joint hearing to examine the benefits and challenges of the Federal government’s transition to cloud computing.

The joint hearing, entitled, “Cloud Computing:  Benefits and Risks of Moving Federal IT into the Cloud,” will focus on the Obama Administration’s strategy for cloud computing technology and services, plans for implementation, coordination of activities among federal entities and other issues related to the government-wide transition to cloud computing. On June 9, 2010, Chairman Towns and Subcommittee Chairman Diane Watson (D-CA) began an examination of the overall implementation of Federal cloud computing services.

The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in room 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.  The hearing will be webcast on the committee’s website: http://oversight.house.gov.

The witnesses scheduled to testify include:

Panel I

Mr. Vivek Kundra
Federal Chief Information Officer Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology
Office of Management and Budget

Mr. David McClure
Associate Administrator Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Ms. Cita Furlani
Director, Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mr. Gregory Wilshusen
Director, Information Security Issues
Government Accountability Office

Panel II

Mr. Scott Charney
Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corporation

Mr. Daniel Burton
Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy
Salesforce.com

Mr. Mike Bradshaw
Director, Google Federal
Google Inc.

Mr. Nick Combs
Chief Technology Officer
EMC Federal

Mr. Gregory Ganger
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Parallel Data Lab
Carnegie Mellon University

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