James Miller, Department of Defense undersecretary of defense for policy, will be leaving the Pentagon in January, according to a Defense News article. Marcus Weisgerber and Paul McLeary write that Miller told DoD leadership of his impending departure Friday morning which leaves the office of the undersecretary for policy with few senior leaders. This follows [...]
James Miller, Department of Defense undersecretary of defense for policy, will be leaving the Pentagon in January, according to a Defense News article. Marcus Weisgerber and Paul McLeary write that Miller told DoD leadership of his impending departure Friday morning which leaves the office of the undersecretary for policy with few senior leaders. This follows [...]
The Energy Department will solicit input from stakeholders during an energy review public meeting scheduled to take place Friday. DOE’s office of energy policy and systems analysis will host the first quadrennial public meeting at the U.S. Capital Visitor’s Center, Congressional Auditorium in Washington, DOE said Tuesday. Attendants were asked by DOE to submit proposals [...]
Iran is set to formulate a draft on its nuclear program with world leaders at a committee meeting in New York next month, Reuters reported Sunday. Michelle Moghtader and Mehrdad Balali write that the state news agency IRNA said the U.S., France, Germany, Britain, China and Russia will meet with Iranian leaders from May 5 [...]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will undergo major reshuffling as the organization faces new health IT challenges without federal stimulus funds, Information Week reported Monday. David Carr writes the leaner structure sees 10 offices led by directors in new or renamed roles that will report directly to Director Karen DeSalvo [...]
Christine Harada, associate administrator of governmentwide policy at the General Services Administration, believes the agency could maximize efficiency by implementing strategies to boost transparency and information management, FCW reported Thursday. Colby Hochmuth writes that Harada aims to expand her office’s analytical practices in order to improve data collection and sharing with other federal agencies. “One [...]
The U.S. Energy Department has launched an online repository of peer-reviewed manuscripts and scholarly articles that contain data from agency-backed science projects. DOE’s Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science website is designed to feature as many as 30,000 scientific resources a year, the agency said Monday. “Increasing access to the results of research funded [...]
Elissa Slotkin, principal deputy assistant defense secretary for international security affairs, will be nominated as assistant secretary of the same office within the Defense Department, the White House announced Thursday. Slotkin has held her current role since 2012 and manages policy development for the Middle East, Africa, Russia, Europe and NATO regions alongside her additional duties as principal deputy [...]
Kristen Sarri, principal deputy assistant secretary for policy, management and budget at the U.S. Department of Interior, will be nominated as assistant secretary in the same office. Sarri has held the PMB principal deputy role since last year, the White House said Thursday. Before joining the agency, she spent three years at the Office of [...]
The Office of Management and Budget has released new policy that requires government agencies to reduce real estate footprint using a national framework laid out in the document. David Mader, federal controller at OMB, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that the National Strategy for Real Property and the Reduce the Footprint policy establish a strategic [...]
The Defense Department has started to deploy a mission force of cybersecurity professionals in real-life operational settings in an effort to protect key U.S. systems, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Maj. Gen. Paul Nakasone was quoted as saying that the Cyber National Mission Force‘s mission is “to ensure that we are prepared if there are [...]
The White House has released a proposal that seeks to update the federal government’s information management principles, Nextgov reported Friday. Aliya Sternstein writes the proposal’s draft minimum requirements aim to prevent abuse of authorized privileges and mitigate the risk of malicious activity. The proposal also calls on agencies to monitor and audit network users’ activities [...]
U.S. Strategic Command plans to adopt a new government policy to provide U.S.’ partner nations access to a communications technology payload on Mobile User Objective System satellites, Space News reported Wednesday. Space News quoted Harold Haney, chief of Stratcom’s satellite communications and spectrum management division, as saying the MUOS constellation was originally intended for U.S.’ use only. [...]
