NSF PA 02-03 - October 31, 2002
NSF Appoints George O. Strawn as Chief Information
Officer
The National Science Foundation has appointed George
O. Strawn as its chief information officer.
Strawn will oversee all aspects of information technology
acquisition, management and application for the foundation,
a 1,500-member federal agency.
Strawn joined the foundation in 1995 and served as
the director of the Division of Advanced Networking
Infrastructure and Research until 1998. In 1999 he
became the executive officer of the Directorate for
Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
He was the directorate's acting assistant director
from September 2001 to May 2002.
While at NSF he co-chaired the Federal Networking Council,
the interagency Large Scale Networking Working Group,
and the Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental
Research Networks. He was the United States representative
on the G-7 task force for the Global Interconnection
of Broadband Networks.
Strawn came to the foundation from Iowa State University,
where he served as director of the Computation Center,
as chair of the Computer Science Department, and as
assistant dean in the College of Science and Humanities.
He earned a doctorate in mathematics from Iowa State
University in 1969.
Noted to Editors: A photograph is
available from the NSF Office of Legislative and Public
Affairs.
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