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President Joe Biden
tapped Chris DeRu-
sha to be the federal
government’s chief
information secu-
rity officer. DeRu-
sha was CISO for
Biden’s presidential
campaign and assisted with the transi- tion. Previously, he spent five years at the Department of Homeland Security as a cybersecurity expert during the Obama administration and two years at the White House as senior cyberse- curity adviser, briefly working for the Trump administration through May 2017.
Prior to joining Biden’s campaign, DeRusha was the chief security offi- cer for the state of Michigan and ran an enterprise vulner-
ability management program for Ford.
Kale, who served as GSA’s chief of staff during the Obama administration, was appointed to the post
of deputy administra-
acting director of GSA’s Office of Enter- prise Technology Solutions. She was director of the agency’s NewPay initia- tive to modernize fed-
The Department
of Health and Human
Services named Oki
Mek to be the depart-
ment’s first chief arti-
ficial intelligence officer. Mek, who was an FCW Rising Star award winner in 2018, has served in a wide range of roles at HHS in the past decade, most recently as senior adviser to the CIO.
The Biden administration has filled several key positions
at the General Ser-
vices Administra-
tion, but at press
time the nomina-
tion of an adminis-
trator had yet to be
announced. Katy
Jenny Yang, an
attorney who served
as chairwoman of the
U.S. Equal Employ-
ment Opportunity
Commission under the Obama admin- istration, has been selected to lead the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the Labor Department. The office is in charge of regulating companies that do business with the federal government.
William Evanina, a career FBI agent and senior counterintelligence official, resigned from his position as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center on Jan. 20. Deputy Director Michael Orlando is leading NCSC on an acting basis.
— FCW Staff
Chris DeRusha
tor and will serve as acting administrator until a top official is confirmed. Kale led Biden’s GSA transi- tion team.
eral payroll services. Rebecca Piazza, an 18F veteran who once served as that organization’s act- ing executive direc- tor, was tapped by the Agriculture
Oki Mek
Sonny Hashmi was tapped to serve as commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.
He was GSA’s CIO and
deputy CIO during the
Obama administra-
tion.
Dave Zvenyach
Rebecca Piazza
Brett Prather will
be the chief of staff at
GSA. He previously served as associate
Sonny Hashmi
has been appointed
director ofTechnology
Transformation Services within the Federal Acquisition Service. During the Obama administration, he served as an assistant commis-
sioner in the Federal
Acquisition Service
and executive direc-
tor of GSA’s 18F digital
services agency.
Department to serve as senior adviser for delivery in the Office of the Under- secretary for Food, Nutrition and Con- sumer Services. The office adminis- ters USDA’s food assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
for Women, Infants and Children.
Dave Zvenyach
Brett Prather
Jenny Yang
Katy Kale
administrator for the gic Communication and deputy associ- ate administrator for policy in the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at GSA.
Amy Haseltine is
Office of Strate-
Amy Haseltine
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