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President Joe Biden nominated Christine Wormuth, a former top policy official at the Defense Department, to serve as Army secretary. If confirmed, she would be the first woman in that role.
Christine Wormuth
ommended the establishment of the cyber position at the White House.
Jen Easterly, a veteran intelligence official, has been nominated to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Rob Silvers, who was thought to be in the running for the CISA post, has been nominated to serve as the Depart- ment of Homeland Security’s undersecre- tary for strategy, policy
and plans.
Kevin Cox will be
leaving his position as
program manager for
CISA’s Continuous Diag-
nostics and Mitigation
Program later this year
to become deputy CIO
at the Justice Department. He was the department’s deputy chief information security officer before taking on the CDM leadership role. Cox is also a two-time Federal 100 award winner,
MatthewWiegmann, former IT director for the Biden-Harris campaign, is joining the Treasury Department as senior adviser for technology and delivery in the Office of the Secretary. Wiegmann was senior systems engineer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and served in the Army from 2004 to 2010.
Cathy Harris, an
employment and civil
rights lawyer based in
Washington, D.C., is
the Biden administra-
tion’s pick to lead the
Merit Systems Protec-
tion Board. MSPB, a
quasi-judicial agency that hears appeals from federal employees about personnel
actions, has been without a quorum to decide appeals since January 2017 and without any Senate-confirmed leadership since March 2019.
Biden appointed Celeste Drake, a for- mer trade and globalization policy specialist attheAFL-CIO,toserveasthefirstMadein America director at the Office of Manage- ment and Budget. According to the White House announcement, Drake will “shape and implement federal procurement and financial management policy to help carry out the president’s vision of a future made in America by all of America’s workers — including minority entrepreneurs and small businesses.”
Teresa Carlson,
longtime leader of Ama-
zon Web Services’ fed-
eral operation, has left
the company to become
Splunk’s president and
chief growth officer. A
two-time Federal 100
winner, Carlson earned FCW’s Eagle award for industry in 2013.
The Digital Services Coalition tapped Traci Walker to serve as execu- tive director. Walker was formerly director of digital procurement at the U.S. Digital Service.
CACI International has promoted Glenn Kurowski to CTO.
David Bennett, director of operations at the Defense Information Systems Agency, retired in April after 23 years of service to the agency. During his career, he also served as CIO, program executive officer for Global Information Grid Enterprise Services and director of Enterprise Infor- mation Services.
Wormuth served as undersecretary of defense for policy from 2014 to 2016 during the Obama administration. She also led the Biden-Harris defense agency review team and is now a senior fellow at the RAND Corp.
Biden nominated
Heidi Shyu — former
assistant secretary of
the Army for acquisition,
logistics and technol-
ogy — to lead DOD’s
technology invest-
ments as undersecretary for research and engineering.
Shyu is chairwoman of the board at manufacturing company Plasan North America, leads her own consulting firm and has held several executive positions at Raytheon. When she served as the Army’s acquisition leader, she streamlined the pro- gram executive offices, especially around cybersecurity.
John “Chris” Inglis, former deputy director of the Nation-
al Security Agency, is
Biden’s nominee to be
the first national cyber
director. Inglis is a mem-
ber of the congressional
Cyberspace Solarium
Commission, which rec-
Kevin Cox
Heidi Shyu
Teresa Carlson
John “Chris” Inglis
Cathy Harris
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