Elizabeth Murphy became secretary at the Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2008. She was previously the head of the Office of Rulemaking in SEC’s division of corporation finance. As secretary of the commission, Murphy is responsible for the procedural administration of commission meetings, rulemaking, practice, and procedure. She also reviews all SEC documents submitted [...]

Wilmer Graham has served as deputy director of strategic planning and evaluation at the Pension and Benefit Guarantee Corporation since 2008. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Belk College of Business.

Steven E. Goldberg is chief financial officer at the National Traffic Safety Board. In that capacity, he manages the board’s financial resources; oversees all financial management activities relating to the programs and operations of the board; develops, prepares, and coordinates annual budget requests to OMB and Congress; and leads the agency’s efforts to comply with [...]

Cass R. Sunstein serves as administrator at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his current position, Sunstein was a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He currently teaches at the law school as a visiting professor, and is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service [...]

H. Alan Lane is associative chief information officer at the Office of Open Government of the Social Security Administration. The Office of Open Government is responsible for assessing agency notices and for the development and implementation of the agency’s authentication policies and procedures.

According to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, more than 12% of reports of Recovery Act spending required corrections. The RAT Board also stated that of the 160,000 reports, there were about 19,000 that had mistakes. These errors occur because the reporting process is rather complicated. It involved more than 90 different elements and many [...]

Eileen Harrington joined the Small Business Administration as chief operating officer in April 2009. She came to SBA after a long career at the Federal Trade Commission, where one of her accomplishments includes creating the Do Not Call Registry with her team. She also led development of the FTC’s internet fraud enforcement program, and coordinated [...]

Matthew E. Perry has been acting chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management since September 2009. He is also program director of  Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which is an OPM-led e-Government initiative designed to leverage the benefits of IT in accordance with the President’s Management Agenda. Prior to working at OPM, Perry [...]

On Friday, Department of Navy CIO Robert Carey wrote a post on his blog entitled “To Work or Not.” He mentioned the success of the semiannual Department of the Navy IT Conference in sunny San Diego, California, and said that when he heard about the coming storms in the DC area, he departed on a [...]

Stuart Reiter has served as senior adviser of e-Government at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2003. Reiter joined NRC in May 1999 as deputy chief information officer and was appointed chief information officer in June 2001. Prior to his tenure at NRC, Reiter was director of infrastructure at IMC Global, and served as a consultant [...]