[anglian]

Kundra will have budgetary authority to launch entirely new systems within government departments, or kill existing multimillion-dollar IT projects. His decisions could have a large impact on government contractors, such as SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, that have come to provide the bulk of IT services to agencies.
D.C. Tech Chief Tapped for White House Slot
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501060.html

[Golden Eagle]

His decisions could have a large impact on government contractors, such as SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, that have come to provide the bulk of IT services to agencies.

Because private business that compete through contracts could provide better service, at lower cost, than federal workers, of course. You're exactly right this new CIO will try to grow the federal workforce instead, Obama already announced it for the IRS:

IRS dumps private debt collectors, shifts pendulum

WASHINGTON (AP) -- So much for privatizing the federal government. The Internal Revenue Service's decision this week to quit using debt collectors to dun delinquent taxpayers was celebrated by public employee unions as a pendulum shift after watching the Bush administration often opt for private contractors over federal workers to deliver government services.

[MikefromOhio]

Kundra will have budgetary authority to launch entirely new systems within government departments, or kill existing multimillion-dollar IT projects. His decisions could have a large impact on government contractors, such as SAIC and Booz Allen Hamilton, that have come to provide the bulk of IT services to agencies. D.C. Tech Chief Tapped for White House Slot http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501060.html

Good now maybe the mistake of the FDCC will be reversed and those users who are going to be afflicted with Vista (which is what the FDCC really is) will be stopped until Microsuck comes up with something that actually WORKS.