Home Information Sharing & Analysis Prevention & Protection Preparedness & Response Research Commerce & Trade Travel Security & Procedures Immigration
About the Department Open for Business Press Room
Current National Threat Level is elevated

The threat level in the airline sector is High or Orange. Read more.

Homeland Security 5 Year Anniversary 2003 - 2008, One Team, One Mission Securing the Homeland

Chief Information Officer Richard Mangogna

Portrait of Richard Mangogna, CIO onLoad=

Richard F. Mangogna was appointed by President George W. Bush on April 8, 2008, as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO). As the CIO, Mangogna oversees the department’s $5.4 billion in Information Technology (IT) programs.

Mangogna is responsible for communicating and implementing the DHS Secretary and Under Secretary for Management's leadership direction related to the IT function. He is responsible for designing, in collaboration with the Chief Information Officer Council, the optimum structure, processes and systems to support both departmental and component missions and goals and to achieve IT functional excellence. Mangogna defines department IT priorities, policies, processes, standards, guidelines and procedures. He chairs the Chief Information Officer Council and Enterprise Architecture Board and oversees the development of reimbursable agreements for cross-component delivery of IT services where required. Mangogna is responsible for developing and maintaining a statutorily compliant information security program consistent with the authorities granted in the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA).

Prior to his appointment as DHS CIO, Mangogna served as an executive consultant to the Office of the CIO for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), where he was retained to specifically mentor an office of the CIO executive and complete a comprehensive organization review. He also served as an executive consultant to the Under Secretary of Citizenship and Immigrations Services (CIS), where he was retained specifically to assess the Temporary Worker Program.

Mangogna's private-sector career includes such prestigious positions as: Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for JP Morgan Chase, where he was responsible for managing 28,000 technology and bank operational people in 26 countries worldwide; President and CEO of COVIDEA, a joint venture of Chemical Bank and AT&T; and president and COO of the electronic banking division of Chemical Bank.

Mangogna has extensive continued professional development in the Harvard Advanced Management Development Program, the Harvard Managing Computer Resource Program, the Dartmouth Senior Management Program, and IBM’s Systems Engineering Program.

This page was last modified on June 2, 2008