Patrick Newbold
Chief Information Officer
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Patrick Newbold is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Director of the Office of Information Technology. He is an accomplished IT executive with a distinguished career in federal service. Prior to joining CMS, Patrick served as the Deputy CIO for Strategy for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), managing business, strategy, and customer engagement.
While at SSA, he served as the Social Security Administration (SSA) Chief Information Officer and most senior agency executive leading information technology, software engineering and cybersecurity risk management and operations. He also co-founded the agency’s Office of Transformation, driving wholesale change across the agency, led the agency’s digital modernization efforts. Before joining SSA, he was the Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) and Director of Enterprise Information Technology for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In this role, he was the principal advisor to the CIO on information management/technology, policy, and administrative issues for the directorate. He was responsible for IT service delivery for over 37K users.
Throughout his federal career, he has advocated for digital transformation, IT modernization, and enabling business goals through technology. He has served on the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board since 2023, where he evaluates federal agency project proposals submitted for funding under the Modernizing Government Technology Act.