David Pekoske, a 33-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and an adjunct faculty member at American University, will be nominated by President Donald Trump as administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.

Pekoske will bring to TSA his operational and command experience from the U.S. Coast Guard, where served as vice commandant prior to his retirement in 2010, the White House said Monday.

He also served as second-in-command and chief operating officer as well as commander of the Pacific Area and Defense Forces West.

After he completed his military career, Pekoske joined defense company A-T Solutions as a group president before it was acquired by PAE in 2015.

He went on to serve as PAE’s vice president for national programs.

Pekoske chairs the InfraGard National Members Alliance’s board of directors and is a member of The National Academies’ Naval Studies Board; the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs’ board of advisers; and Heroes Linked’s advisory board.

The General Services Administration has informed Congress of the agency’s plans to integrate the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service as part of a reorganization effort, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday.

“By placing all of the offices focused on government modernization into the same organization, GSA will be better able to leverage its expertise and assets in support of the White House and its Office of American Innovation,” Tim Horne, acting GSA administrator, said in a statement published Wednesday.

Horne added that Alan Thomas, former program manager at the Defense Department, will succeed Tom Sharpe as FAS commissioner.

Thomas is a political appointee and a 23-year government and industry veteran.

Kevin Youel Page will continue to serve as deputy commissioner of FAS and Rob Cook will retain the TTS director post, the report added.

Michelle Lee has resigned from her role as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after a five-year career at the agency, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Former President Barack Obama nominated Lee for the USPTO leadership position in 2014 and the Senate confirmed her nomination in March 2015.

Lee previously held the roles of interim and deputy director at the agency.

She left USPTO two months after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and technology companies such as Cisco Systems and Facebook urged the Trump administration to retain Lee as USPTO chief for her efforts to establish standards for software patents and curb “patent trolls.”

Lee supported the establishment of a PTO regional office in San Jose, California, as part of the agency’s innovation campaign in the West Coast region.

She previously served as a general counsel and head of patent policy at Google before she joined USPTO.

The Energy Department and the Agriculture Department‘s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will provide a total of $9 million in fiscal 2017 to research and development  projects that can help boost the country’s energy independence.

The Biomass Research and Development Initiative seeks projects in the areas of biofuel development analysis, feedstock development and bio-based product development, DOE said Monday.

NIFA and DOE collectively plan to award up to 20 contracts that range from $500,000 $2 million through their joint initiative.

BRDI-funded projects will work to help both departments create renewable biomass sources, diversify the country’s energy portfolio and increase the volume of renewable fuels and other bio-based products.

Interested companies, national laboratories, universities and nonprofit organizations can submit proposals through Sept 22.

The White House has proposed to transfer oversight of U.S. air traffic control operations from the Federal Aviation Administration to a new nongovernmental, nonprofit entity.

A White House news release published Monday says the plan seeks to expand the National Airspace System and address aircraft delays through the implementation of next-generation technology platforms and facilitate the integration of commercial space vehicles and unmanned aerial systems.

The Transportation Department’s secretary will oversee the transition of ATC operations to the new independent entity over a three-year period.

A board of directors will manage the nongovernmental organization that will operate through the use of fees collected from NAS users.

The new ATC institution should provide general aviation users, military and rural communities open access to the country’s airspace, detect and counter cyber threats, recognize existing labor agreements and be allowed to use the spectrum for free.

Under the ATC reform plan, President Donald Trump has proposed to move FAA to a “performance-based framework responsible for providing effective oversight of the new ATC entity” and retain regulation of aviation safety under DOT.

David Bray, chief information officer of the Federal Communications Commission, will join the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency next month as the organization’s first chief ventures officer in July, MeriTalk reported Monday.

He will be responsible for helping drive NGA’s internal and commercial innovation efforts in his new position, according to the report.

He led FCC’s information technology modernization efforts during his tenure as the commission’s CIO and manaed the development of its universal licensing system.

The more than 20-year IT veteran serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Eisenhower fellow to Taiwan and Australia and a visiting executive at Harvard University.

Bray previously held various roles within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Energy Department, Institute for Defense Analyses, Microsoft, Intellinet and Yahoo.