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Deputy Secretary Elaine Duke is leading the Department of Homeland Security on an acting basis now that former Secretary John Kelly has left to serve as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
Although Duke was confirmed as deputy secretary in April, she has a long history with the agency. She served as undersecretary for management from July 2008 to April 2010, when she left to work as an acquisition and business consultant in the private sector.
Earlier still, she was deputy assistant administrator for acquisition at the Transportation Security Administration, where she oversaw the acquisition program that federalized passenger and baggage screening at U.S. airports after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Rick Driggers is taking on the duties of deputy assistant secretary of DHS’ Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. His precedessor, Danny Toler, is retiring. The office is in charge of securing government networks and coordinating with critical infrastructure providers and the private sector to protect commercial networks.
Driggers had been serving as principal deputy director of the National Cybersecurity Communications and Integration Center, DHS’ hub for cyber incident response and management.
DHS and Congress have been moving to streamline and more tightly link cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection operations under a proposed new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Deputy CIO Stephen Rice became acting CIO at DHS on Sept. 1. He replaced Richard Staropoli, who resigned after just a few months in the job.
Treasury Department CIO Sonny Bhagowalia is being detailed to a new position in the department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Deputy
CIO Eric Olson will take over as acting CIO. A Treasury spokesperson said Bhagowalia will focus on a series of important cybersecurity and technology projects.
He has been Treasury’s CIO since 2014. Previously, he served as Hawaii’s CIO and as a technology and cybersecurity adviser to the governor of Hawaii. He also did a stint as deputy associate administrator at the General
Clockwise from top left: Elaine Duke, Jonathan Alboum, David DeVries and Robert Foster.
Services Administration for a little over year and held the CIO spot at the Interior Department from 2008 to 2010.
The Agriculture Department is moving CIO Jonathan Alboum into the position of senior procurement executive. Alboum won a 2017 Federal 100 award for spearheading a major modernization effort that involved consolidating USDA’s IT networks and boosting efficiency and security.
Robert Foster has left his position as Navy Department CIO for the post of deputy CIO at the National Credit Union Administration.
Among other accomplishments at the Navy, Foster instituted a policy that cracks down on personal use
of department systems and holds commanders and civilian managers responsible for lapses.
Office of Personnel Management CIO David DeVries has left the agency after serving about a year in the role.
He arrived at OPM in 2015, the year after the agency suffered a massive hack of its systems. Drawing on his experience at DOD, he played a major role in overseeing the launch of the National Background Investigations Bureau.
He told Congress in February that NBIB has instituted multifactor authentication for all users and that other legacy system upgrades had been made. OPM plans to deploy the new NBIB network by the end of 2018.
George Nesterczuk has asked President Donald Trump to withdraw his nomination to be OPM director. In a July 31 letter, Nesterczuk told Trump he “decided to withdraw because the prospect of my favorable confirmation has grown remote.”
Although he was nominated in May, Nesterczuk had not yet received a confirmation hearing, and he faced strong opposition from public- employee unions. Critics focused on the workforce-related positions Nesterczuk had taken in previous government roles and his consulting work for the Ukrainian government.
He served on Trump’s transition team and previously held positions at OPM under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
OPM has been without a permanent director since July 2015, when Katherine Archuleta resigned in the wake of massive data breaches at the agency. Beth Cobert ran OPM on an acting basis for the last 18 months of the Obama administration and was nominated for the position, but the full Senate never voted on her nomination.
— FCW staff
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