Juan Zarate was a deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism in the George W. Bush administration. He now serves as a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in the D.C. think tank’s Transnational Threats Project. Before joining the National Security Council, Zarate served in [...]

Timothy J. Healy was appointed director of the Terrorist Screening Center in May 2009. The TSC is an FBI organization tasked with identifying suspected or potential terrorists and administering the government’s terrorist watchlist. Prior to being named TSC director, Healy served as an FBI special agent and as a program manager in the FBI Headquarters [...]

The threat landscape faced by the Defense Department is rapidly shifting, even as the Pentagon navigates uncertain budget waters, Deputy Defense William J. Lynn III said this week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Global Security Forum. First, Lynn made clear DoD would have a role to play in federal deficit-reduction efforts. “Since [...]

Federal acquisition officials are being nudged to make sure the information about contractors federal officials upload to the Federal Procurement Data System is correct and timely, according to a recent memo from Dan Gordon, the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. OFPP initially issued guidance in October 2009, directing agency acquisition officers to [...]

The Office of Personnel and Management has formally added and defined a new IT position for the federal workforce: the IT program manager title, according to a May 31 OPM memo. The exhaustive 25-point federal IT reform, launched by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra in December, called for the creation of an official IT [...]

Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Michael Leiter will step down next month as the administration mulls a new counterterrorism strategy, according to media reports. Leiter is generally held in high regard by the intelligence community and Congress, Marc Ambinder of National Journal reports. “NCTC, under Leiter’s tenure, has become an all-source intelligence fusion shop [...]

CIA Director Leon Panetta, the president’s pick to be the next defense secretary, heads to the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning for the first in a series of confirmation hearings. But the outcome is all but assured. Panetta, a former Clinton administration budget director and California congressman, has earned respect from both sides of [...]

Patrick Fitzgerald is the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency,  the Defense Department arm responsible for auditing the Pentagon’s contracts. Before taking over as DCAA director in November 2009, Fitzgerald served as the Army auditor general, a position he was appointed to in March 2006. As the Army’s chief auditor, Fitzgerald was responsible for [...]

Paul Schneider, now a principal with The Chertoff Group, previously served as deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, where he managed the day-to-day operations of the 220,000 employee-strong agency and was responsible for an annual budget of $52.6 billion. Earlier, as undersecretary for management, he was responsible for DHS’ financial management along with [...]

Executive Mosaic, the parent company of ExecutiveGov and a stable of online news properties geared toward the government-contracting industry, announced today the launch of the summer issue of its quarterly print magazine, GovConExec. The latest issue, which marks GovConExec’s second year of publishing, features an in-depth look into the latest cybersecurity threat: the insider threat, [...]