The IRS will have a permanent CIO for the first time since March with the appointment of Rajiv Uppal, who previously served as acting CIO at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Kaschit Pandy had been serving as IRS CIO in an acting capacity since June after prior CIO Nancy Sieger took a new role at the Treasury Department.
Uppal has served in various roles at CMS since 2017. Before CMS, Uppal was on a U.S. Digital Service team at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He had previously worked in the private sector, according to his LinkedIn profile.
During Uppal’s CMS tenure, he helped stand up an upskilling summit for the agency’s IT workforce in 2020.
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