OCIO Leadership
Who We Are
OCIO will support achievement of USDA’s diverse mission areas by offering agile, world-class technology solutions to its stakeholders and applying innovative approaches to recruiting and developing a highly skilled workforce. The USDA OCIO develops, delivers, and defends the business information technologies that empower every aspect of the USDA mission under the following leadership:
Gary Washington, Chief Information Officer
Gary S. Washington is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In this role, Mr. Washington works with stakeholders across USDA’s 17 component agencies and throughout Federal government to formulate Information Technology (IT) strategies and to develop policies that support IT budget formulation and execution, portfolio management, governance, IT operations and information security.
Kimberly Jackson, Deputy Chief Information Officer
Kimberly Jackson serves as the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In this role, Ms. Jackson leads the operational components of OCIO that include enterprise services end user support, network, and infrastructure services, and OCIO resource management.
