Former Transportation CIO most proud of creating ‘momentum for change’
When Pavan Pidugu was sworn in to his role as the Transportation Department’s chief digital and information officer in February 2025, the agency operated more than a dozen separate grant systems, few of its rank-and-file employees used artificial intelligence in their daily jobs and the agency didn’t have an IT strategy for the modern age.
By the time Pidugu left his role on Sept. 4, he’d engineered eye-opening reversals in the above statistics and more, executing a vision he first laid out in Transportation’s comprehensive “1DOT IT plan” that will dictate IT operations over the next four years.
Consider the post-Pidugu statistics: Transportation is consolidating to a single grant system through its GrantLens program, and more than 90% of its 50,000 employees regularly use AI for everything from engaging with internal chatbots and agentic systems to coding software.
During the same 19-month period, Pidugu led a Transportation-wide transitionto Google...
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