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The White House has nominated David Redl to lead the Commerce Department’s National Telecommuni- cations and Information Administra- tion, which oversees federal spectrum holdings and internet governance policies.
The NTIA chief also serves as a top federal adviser on telecommuni- cations issues.
Redl has deep Washington expe- rience. He currently serves as chief counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He has also worked on policy at CTIA, a trade association that represents wireless carriers.
NTIA took part in a number of high- profile activities under the Obama administration, including the develop- ment of long-term plans to free up 500 GHz of spectrum for commercial use, ceding control of a key internet func- tion to a group of global stakehold- ers and supporting the launch of the FirstNet program to create a national public safety communications system.
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said he welcomed the nomination, adding that Redl is “uniquely qualified to lead the agency charged with managing the spectrum held by the U.S. government \[and\] is also a skillful expert in com- munications issues central to NTIA’s mission of ensuring that the Internet remains an engine for innovation and economic growth.”
The coveted chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is due to change hands when Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) leaves Congress on June 30 to become a Fox News commentator.
Chaffetz announced the move in a May 18 letter to constituents.
“I’ve slept on a cot in my office largely to save money for the Chaffetz family, but also to remind myself that my service there was temporary,” he
wrote. “We feel my time in Congress has been well spent, but it now seems the right time to turn the page.”
In April, he announced on his per- sonal Facebook page that he would not run for any public office in 2018 but said he might do so at a later date. Utah’s gubernatorial race is in 2020.
Chaffetz was a co-sponsor of the Digital Accountability and Transpar- ency Act and introduced the Inspec-
In 2010, Grady won a Presidential Rank Award.
The undersecretary for manage- ment post requires Senate confirma- tion, which will be handled by the Homeland Security and Governmen- tal Affairs Committee.
David Wennergren, the former DOD and Navy executive, is leaving his current position as an executive vice president at the Professional Ser- vices Council to become a managing director at Deloitte Consulting, where he will focus on IT modernization.
Wennergren retired from govern- ment service in 2013 as DOD’s assis- tant deputy chief management officer. He will begin his new job at Deloitte on July 5.
He is the latest on a long list of federal IT colleagues who have joined the Deloitte team, including former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.); Tim Young, former deputy administrator of e-gov- ernment and IT during the Bush administration; Dave Mader, for- mer Office of Management and Bud- get controller; and Kymm McCabe, former CEO of ASI Government.
Amy Northcutt, the National Sci- ence Foundation’s CIO, passed away on May 6 from complications related to a brain tumor that had been diag- nosed just nine days earlier.
An attorney and religious studies scholar in addition to an IT execu- tive, Northcutt had served as NSF’s CIO since 2012 and before that spent a decade as the agency’s deputy gen- eral counsel. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Wesley Theologi- cal Seminary in Washington and the Oklahoma City law firm of Crowe and Dunlevy.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on June 17 at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St., NE, Washington, D.C.
— FCW staff
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Clockwise from top left: David Redl, Jason Chaffetz, Claire Grady and David Wennergren.
tor General Empowerment Act, which then-President Barack Obama signed into law in December 2016.
Claire Grady, who has held top procurement positions in the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security, has been nomi- nated to the post of undersecretary for management at DHS.
She is currently director of defense procurement and acquisition policy at DOD, a post she assumed in 2015. She’s also a member of the Defense Acquisition Board.
Previously, Grady was deputy assis- tant commandant for acquisition and director of acquisition services at the Coast Guard, where she also served as head of contracting activity from 2007 to 2013.
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