Executive Moves - Page 131

Leaders of House and Senate Armed Services Committees have appointed former Department of Defense officials to a 14-member commission tasked with evaluating the effectiveness of DOD’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution process.

The Federal Communications Commission has made five appointments that determine the leadership of four bureaus and the FCC’s legal functions. Alejandro Roark, formerly the executive director of HTTP, will serve as chief

Lawrence Wong, a former Accenture exec, has been named senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Veritas Technologies. The role will entail Wong creating and implementing a cloud strategy to build on Veritas’

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, in Indiana has named Kyle Werner, Dane Speer, Brent Voigtschild and James Ross as new members of its executive leadership team. The four new directors

Laurie Leshin, the president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will serve as the new director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of the California Institute of Technology, effective May 16. She

Lisa Guess, senior vice president of solutions engineering for cloud technology company Cradlepoint, has been selected for membership by the Federal Communications Commission’s Technological Advisory Committee. Guess will represent all of Ericsson, the Swedish

Rebecca Chhim, a more than two-decade veteran of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island, has been promoted to lead an internal department that focuses on helping the U.S.

Mona Harrington, executive director of the Election Assistance Commission, will join the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s National Risk Management Center to serve as deputy assistant director, Politico reported Monday. Harrington will

The Federal Communications Commission has named the new members of its reestablished Technological Advisory Council, which will be chaired by Dean Brenner, a former Qualcomm executive. TAC’s first meeting will take place

Sean Hearne, an official within the Department of Energy’s national laboratory systems for two decades, has been selected as president and CEO of the Southeastern Universities Research Association. Hearne, the director of