Executive Moves - Page 218

President Trump intends to nominate Stephen Dickson, a former senior vice president for flight operations at Delta Air Lines, as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for five years and chairman of the

James Mattis, former secretary of the Department of Defense and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named Davies Family Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, effective May 1. Mattis

John Edwards, the former director of information technology enterprise at the CIA, was promoted to deputy chief operating officer. Edwards is scheduled to make his first appearance in the role at the Cipher Brief

Erin Joe, a senior executive for cyber operations at the FBI, was named director at the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center.

Nazzic Keene, chief operating officer of Science Applications International Corp. and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as the company’s CEO. She will succeed Tony Moraco, who will retire

U.S. Air Force Capt. Hope Cronin announced that Preston Dunlap, formerly a national security analysis mission areas executive at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, was appointed chief architect at the service

The U.S. Senate confirmed Bill Vajda, former chief information officer of Alaska, to fill the same role at the Department of Interior. He is returning to federal service after a decade of state

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced Friday that she will leave her post in May to join the University of Texas at El Paso as president, the military service reported Friday. “It has

Lt. Gen. James Slife, vice commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, was appointed to serve as commander of the Air Force Special Operations Command. He will assume his new role from

Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, announced his resignation effective in April after two years of leadership, The Hill reported Tuesday. He sent a letter to FDA staff