Executive Moves

The Senate on Tuesday voted 54-45 to confirm Elbridge Colby, a former Department of Defense official, for the position of under secretary of defense for policy.Colby's confirmation marks his return...

Lt. Gen. William Hartman has been appointed acting director of the National Security Agency several hours after the Trump administration fired top officials at the agency, The Hill reported Saturday.LTG...

President Donald Trump has nominated Joseph Jewell, an aerospace engineer, to serve as an assistant secretary at the Department of Defense.Congress received and referred Jewell's nomination to the Senate Armed...

Eric Schnabel has been appointed as chief operating officer of the Senior Executive Service at the National Institutes of Health. In this role, Schnabel will serve all 27 NIH institutes, focusing...

Laurie Buckhout has been named deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense.The Department of Defense said Monday Buckhout was officially appointed on...

President Donald Trump has nominated Karen Evans, a senior Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official, to serve as under secretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security.Congress received and...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed Joe Maletta as acting senior procurement executive and executive director of its Office of Acquisition and Logistics.Announcing his appointment in a LinkedIn post,...

President Donald Trump has nominated Katherine Sutton, a cyber policy and technology expert, to serve as assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy.Congress received Sutton's nomination for the Department of...

James Schmidt, a seasoned educator, has been selected as the new president of James Madison University.The university said Wednesday Schmidt was appointed by the JMU Board of Visitors as the seventh president...

The Senate on Tuesday voted 74-25 to confirm Michael Kratsios, a two-time Wash100 Award winner, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP.Kratsios' confirmation...