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President DonaldTrump has nominated Michael Wooten, a senior acquisitions adviser at the Federal Student Aid office, to be the government’s top acquisition
veterans to join the agency as its new IT leaders. Clare Martorana will take over as CIO, and David Nesting will serve as her deputy.
“Ms. Martorana and Mr. Nesting bring tremendous
tems, including the System for Award Management.
Zawatsky, a 2016 Federal 100 award winner, was previously chief of staff at FAS. She stepped in as acting assistant commissioner of OSM after her prede- cessor, former 18F Executive Director Dave Zvenyach, was detailed to serve as a technical adviser to FAS Commis- sioner Alan Thomas.
Tricia Sieveke had been filling in for Zawatsky in the FAS chief of staff role and will take on that job on a perma- nent basis.
Roger L. Stone is now a top IT adviser to President DonaldTrump. His appoint- ment was included in a raft of person-
policy officer. If confirmed, Wooten would be the first per- manent admin- istrator of the Office of Feder- al Procurement Policy since Anne Rung, who resigned in September 2016 and took a senior public-sector sales post
at Amazon.
Currently, the OFPP director’s office
is occupied on an acting basis by Les- ley Field.
Wooten also served as acting assis- tant secretary and deputy assistant secretary for career, technical and adult education. Before joining the Trump administration at the Education Department, Wooten was deputy chief procurement officer for the District of Columbia. He also worked as a pro- fessor and administrator at Defense Acquisition University.
Christine Calvosa will serve as CIO of the Federal Communications Commis- sion on a permanent basis after being in the role on an acting basis for more than a year. She has worked at the FCC since 2014 and previously served as deputy CIO for technology and resiliency. Before that, she was CTO at the Agricul- ture Department’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
The Office of Personnel Management has tapped a pair of U.S. Digital Service
digital exper- tise to OPM,” acting OPM Director Mar- garetWeichert said when announcing the hires. “I am confident
Michael Wooten
Clare Martorana
their experience and transformative vision will significantly contribute to our mission to modernize our infrastruc- ture and deliver better services to the American people.”
Martorana, whose most recent role was as a USDS digital service expert, succeeds David Garcia, who is step- ping down.
Judith Zawatsky, who had been serv- ing as acting assistant commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Office of Systems Management, has
Roger L. Stone
nel announce- ments released in early February. Stone replaced Chris Herndon as deputy assistant to the president and director of
Judith Zawatsky
been elevat- ed to the job on a perma- nent basis, according to a GSA memo obtained by FCW.
OSM is responsible
White House IT in October 2018.
The White House IT director role, cre- ated by executive order in 2015, coordi- nates policy for the Executive Office of the President and oversees the IT budget and systems used by the White House. Senate staffer Dan Lips is joining the Internet Security Alliance as assis- tant vice president. The former policy director for homeland security for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee previously worked as an intelligence analyst in the FBI’s
for integrating and unifying federal contracting award processes. It over- sees the Federal Acquisition Service and governmentwide contracting sys-
Cyber Division.
— FCW staff
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