The Office of Management and Budget is looking for an information technology professional to support OMB’s category management efforts for approximately $50 billion in annual IT investments across the government.

The chosen candidate will work with the General Services Administration as well as agency senior acquisition and IT officials to implement category management for IT products and services, according to a USAJobs notice posted Monday.

The ITCM specialist will also help to implement the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act with the goal to reduce duplicative purchases through a reform of software license acquisition and management processes.

The position has a term of two years, with potential extension of up to four years depending on management requirements.

The incumbent will report to the deputy administrator for federal procurement policy and will collaborate with the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer and the designated IT category manager.

Other duties of the ITCM include developing analytic tools and techniques to support strategy for select IT categories as well as sourcing strategies for IT commodities and services.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency supported a University of Colorado-Boulder research team that discovered an approach on how to synthesize ultrathin materials at room temperature under the agency’s Local Control of Materials Synthesis program.

DARPA said Wednesday the CU team demonstrated room-temperature deposition of silicon and gallium nitride and a capacity to etch specific materials that lead to spatial control in three dimensions that may help meet demands for smaller device architectures.

Personnel at the Naval Research Laboratory and National Institute of Standards and Technology have collaborated with CU on the university’s research that was featured at the 16th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition.

“Looking forward, the EE-ALD approach could serve not just as a tool for integrating incompatible materials but also more generally to build and etch device architectures at atomic scales, an increasingly important capability as circuit geometries shrink,” said Tyler McQuade, DARPA program manager.

DARPA noted CU has also developed a custom deposition chamber in a push to showcase industrial relevance and scalability of the EE-ALD process which can potentially deposit or etch films comprised of several materials on industrial-scale six-inch silicon wafers.

Patty Hatter, Intel‘s security group professional services business unit vice president and general manager, will join the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board on a four-year term.

NIST said Tuesday the 20-year leadership veteran will fill a role under the membership category defined in the ISPAB charter as four members from outside the federal government who are “eminent in the information technology” industry.

Hatter has served in sales, service to operations and IT leadership roles at companies such as McAfee, Cisco, Highline Controls and AT&T.

She has received awards such as the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times’ Judge’s Choice winner for Bay Area CIO of the Year.

The ISPAB was established to advise NIST, the homeland security secretary and the Office of Management and Budget director on federal government information system issues to identify emerging managerial, technical, administrative and physical safeguard issues on security and privacy.