Mike McCord serves as the under secretary of defense (comptroller) / chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of Defense. He serves as the principal staff assistant and adviser to the secretary of defense for all budgetary and fiscal matters, including the development and execution of the Defense Department’s annual budget. …

Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser serves as director for joint force development at the Joint Staff. A native of South St. Paul, Minnesota and a graduate of Bemidji State University, he was commissioned in 1976 as an infantry officer. As a field grade officer, Lt. Gen. Waldhauser was a battalion landing …

John Higbee serves as Defense Acquisition University’s director of mission assistance and director of knowledge repository. As director of DAU mission assistance, he leads the establishment and improvement of multiple university-wide processes for mission assistance and also the improvement in communication and coordination between the DAU business units providing mission …

Steve Cooper serves as the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He leads the development and implementation of the Department’s enterprise-wide IT strategy and operations, oversees the building and operation of the enterprise IT security risk program and serves as an adviser on mission and business IT systems …

Major General John Peabody is the deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He exercises oversight of the Corps’ civil works activities, which includes conducting research and development, as well as planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the nation’s water resource civil …

U.S. Navy Admiral Michael Rogers serves as commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service. Prior to these roles, he served as commander of both the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and the U.S. Tenth Fleet, with responsibility for all of …

Federal government senior executives are leaving government at a very high rate, up 44 percent since 2009, according to a Federal Times article. Andy Medici cites a George Washington University study which says turnover in the Senior Executive Service increased from 7.2 percent in 2009 to 9.8 percent in 2013. “The current …

Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, National Security Agency director and and CyberCom commander, recently spoke to the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare about where he thinks Army networks and cybersecurity will be in 2025, the American Forces Press Service said Monday. Cheryl Pellerin writes Rogers spoke about integrating cyber …

Michael McCord, former principal deputy undersecretary of defense, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to succeed the retiring Robert Hale as Defense Department comptroller, Defense News reported Thursday. Prior to joining the DoD in 2009, McCord spent 21 years on the Senate Armed Services Committee where he was responsible for …

The Marine Corps has added unmanned aerial systems training to the basic curriculum that newly commissioned officers must undergo, Defense Systems said Tuesday. Kevin McCaney writes that instructors at The Basic School took a two week course on a small UAS system and will begin teaching how to use the …