By Richard C. Dujardin
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Steven C. Taylor, a member of the U.S. Foreign Service since 1988 and a Cranston native, has been confirmed as the the new chief information officer for the Department of State.
Taylor, who served as acting CIO since August 2012 and as deputy CIO and chief technology officer of operations before that, is to oversee a budget of around $1 billion and will be responsible for technology initiatives and knowledge management services for the department and its 260 overseas missions.
He has held several prominent positions in the department over a number of years and has had assignments in Cairo; Athens; Baghdad; Berlin; Bonn, Germany; London; Moscow; and Rabat, Morocco. He is a graduate of Boston University.