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Jamie Morin, comptroller of the Air Force since 2009, has been confirmed by the Senate as cost assessment and program evaluation lead at the Defense Department, Defense News reported Wednesday. Marcus Weisberger writes the Senate has also approved Jessica Wright to serve as full-time undersecretary of defense for personnel and …

The U.S. Agriculture Department has certified an Esri-made online cloud mapping platform as compliant with security requirements under the Federal Information Security Management Act. Esri obtained a FISMA authority-to-operate status from USDA for the company’s ArcGIS Online cloud geospatial technology, Esri said Wednesday. The ArcGIS Online system is designed to …

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Robert Shea will join AFCEA International as president and CEO on Aug. 1 and succeed Kent Schneider, who led the organization for nearly seven years as its chief executive, AFCEA said Wednesday. “When you look at the mission of AFCEA, how can you not be excited about working …

Dr. Carolyn Clancy, who joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in August 2013, will assume the role of VA undersecretary for health in an interim capacity beginning July 2. Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said Wednesday that Clancy will lead agency efforts to expand veterans’ access to medical services as …

The Defense Department‘s plan to roll out an agency-wide information technology platform could face delays as officials consider first some cybersecurity factors, FCW reported Tuesday. Adm. Michael Rogers, director of National Security Agency, told a an AFCEA cybersecurity conference that the Joint Information Environment is intended for the DoD to gain full …

John Streufert, director of federal network resilience at the Department of Homeland Security, has told Federal Times that the agency is poised to award the second round of task orders under its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program for the protection of dot-gov networks. Steve Watkins writes that CDM tools from 17 …

Robert Hale, outgoing Pentagon comptroller, has said the contracting industry could help military customers manage investments by explaining to them a technology’s long-run cost, Reuters reported Tuesday. “I hope more of them will have to courage to say, look this is going to be very expensive, maybe you ought to …

The Senate is set to vote on the nomination of Shaun Donovan as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Andy Medici writes that Donovan, incumbent secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, garnered the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Reform Committee’s approval …

Richard Ginman, the Defense Department‘s director of procurement policy, is set to depart his office after nearly 40 years of service both in the government and private sectors, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes that Ginman has served as DoD’s top procurement and acquisition policy official since 2011, when …

The CIA is testing Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing products against the agency’s cybersecurity requirements, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Mohana Ravindranath writes the CIA awarded the contract to AWS in 2013 and the cloud computing platform is scheduled for deployment in the summer. Doug Wolfe, CIA’s chief information officer, told …