Mark Bradley, director of the Freedom of Information Act declassification and pre-publication review at the Justice Department, has been appointed director of the National Archives and Records Administration‘s information security oversight office.

He will transition to his new role on Dec. 27 and will lead the office that oversees the governmentwide security classification system and the National Industrial Security Program, NARA said Monday.

“His extensive experience with intelligence matters, declassification policy and FOIA will serve him well in his new position as Director of ISOO,” said David Ferriero, archivist of the U.S.

Bradley will also serve as executive secretary of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel and the Public Interest Declassification Board as well as chairman of the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee, the State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Policy Advisory Committee and the Controlled Unclassified Information Advisory Council.

He joined DOJ in November 2000 and chairs its department review committee.

Before DOJ, he served as former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s legislative assistant for foreign affairs and intelligence matters and as a criminal defense lawyer in the District of Columbia.

NASA has chosen a consortium led by the University of Oklahoma for a five-year Earth science mission to measure greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space as part of efforts to better understand the planet’s natural exchanges of carbon between the atmosphere, land and ocean.

The Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory initiative aims to monitor plant health and vegetation stress in the Americas as well as probe natural sources and exchange processes that impact carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane, NASA said Wednesday.

The $166 million project will send a commercial communications satellite over the region from an orbit of 22,000 miles above the equator as part of a competitively selected Earth Venture-Mission.

“GeoCARB will provide important new measurements related to Earth’s global natural carbon cycle, and will allow monitoring of vegetation health throughout North, Central and South America,” said Michael Freilich, director of the Earth science division at NASA’s science mission directorate.

The University of Oklahoma will lead the GeoCARB team comprised of Lockheed Martin, SES Government Solutions, Colorado State University, the Ames Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A bill that would require federal agencies to develop a career path for program managers is now headed to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature after the Senate re-approved the proposed measure via unanimous vote, Federal News Radio reported Monday.

Eric White writes the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 would authorize agencies to appoint a senior executive who will oversee the development of policies and strategies on program management.

The Senate approved the bill for the second time on Nov. 30 after a revised version of the proposed measure cleared the House in September, the Project Management Institute said Thursday.

The proposed legislation also aims to facilitate the development of a standards-based program management policy across agencies and form an interagency council that will work to promote sharing of program management approaches, according to PMI.

Mark Langley, president and CEO of PMI, said Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-North Dakota) helped advance the bipartisan bill in the upper chamber.

“We look forward to having this bill signed into law by President Barack Obama in the coming days,” Langley added.