Federal government interagency cooperation and interaction is one benefit to having a Chief Technology Officer of the United States, according to Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. When we first spoke to Adelstein at the 2008 OPASTCO Summer Convention, when he was still an FCC Commissioner, he suggested that the CTO role would bring disparate parts of government together. Today, Adelstein is the face of the RUS and is responsible for a $56 Billion loan portfolio. In this brief interview, he discusses the stimulus program, as well as the challenges of reducing interagency friction in order to speed the rollout of broadband to unserved and under-served areas.