Scott Blackburn, acting deputy secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been appointed to serve as VA’s chief information officer and assistant secretary for information and technology on an interim basis, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.

Blackburn will succeed Rob Thomas, who is due to retire in October after more than 35 years of federal government service.

Thomas was named CIO of the department when LaVerne Council left the post in January due to the change in administration.

Blackburn joined VA in 2014 and led the MyVA Task Force with the goal to optimize customer service for the country’s military veterans.

He served as a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey and Company, where he supported customers’ transformational change programs in areas such as manufacturing, purchasing, organizational design, leadership development, supply chain and others.

The Library of Congress has launched a new website built to foster the creative use of the Library’s digital collections on experiments, projects, events and other resources.

The institution said Tuesday the labs.loc.gov space will have a gallery on projects, blog posts and video presentations from data challenge winners and innovators-in residence in a move to encourage potential discoveries.

LOC noted that the labs website provides visitors with an opportunity to participate in experimental applications and crowdsourcing programs as well as tutorials that aim to promote computational discovery.

“With labs, we hope to create a community dedicated to using technology to expand what’s possible with the world’s creative and intellectual treasures,” said Kate Zwaard, chief of the Library of Congress’ National Digital Initiatives office.

Labs currently features a crowdsourcing program called Beyond Words which works to find partners that can identify cartoons from historic newspapers and convert the images into searchable data.

The Library noted that it also utilized various industry standards to develop application programming interfaces that can boost the accessibility of various digital collections.

Alan Thomas, commissioner of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service, has promoted acting assistant FAS commissioner Mary Davie to the deputy commissioner post in a series of leadership changes at the agency, Federal News Radio reported Monday.

Thomas, who joined FAS in June, said Davie’s experience in collaboration with government and industry stakeholders would help support FAS in its efforts to build up client, employee and supplier satisfaction and achieve savings in the federal procurement aspect.

Davie, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, has been serving as interim deputy FAS commissioner since June 12 and previously served as assistant commissioner at FAS’ office of information technology category and the office of assisted acquisition services.

Kay Ely, acting assistant commissioner for the office of IT category, will serve as the office’s permanent deputy commissioner.

Dave Zvenyach, interim executive director at GSA’s 18F organization, will take over as acting FAS assistant commissioner at the office of systems management and will be replaced by 18F deputy executive chief Rebecca Piazza at the digital services organization.

Bob Noonan, assistant FAS commissioner for the office of systems management, will serve as acting deputy commissioner for the office of general supplies and services.

Erv Koehler, FAS regional commissioner for the Southeast Sunbelt Region, will assume the role of assistant commissioner for the office of customer accounts and stakeholder engagement and will be replaced by his deputy Joel Rogero as interim regional commissioner.

Kim Brown, assistant FAS commissioner for the CASE office, will serve as regional commissioner for the GSA Great Lakes region.