Richard Burk, the Office of Management and Budget’s chief architect, is retiring after more than 35 years in government.

Burk has been OMB’s chief architect since 2005 and spent 29 years at the Housing and Urban Development Department. His last day will be Sept. 30, Burk said in an interview with Federal Computer Week.

“I’ve spent 35 years in government with a passion for good government, and I want to see if I can continue it outside the structure of government,” he said. “I fully intend to continue working in the federal information technology community.”

Burk said he has not been looking for a new job but figures he will land in the private sector.

In almost two years as OMB’s chief architect, Burk has been instrumental in getting agencies to make their enterprise architectures operational. He has led the development of many guides to help agencies make better use of the modernization blueprints, and he has been an evangelizer of bringing enterprise architecture out of the “IT ghetto” to show value to the agency’s mission.

Burk has led the development of the Federal Transition Framework (FTF), which helps agencies understand how governmentwide initiatives fit into their enterprise architectures...

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