The Office of Personnel Management has appointed James Onusko and Christy Wilder to respectively serve as team leader and deputy manager of an interagency effort to establish a National Background Investigations Bureau, Federal News Radio reported Friday.

Jason Miller writes Onusko and Wilder will oversee the transition of functions, personnel and infrastructure from OPM’s Federal Investigative Services organization to NBIB.

Onusko previously served as executive director of personnel security and identity management at the Department of Veterans Affairs and director of the State Department‘s Office of Personnel Security and Suitability.

The report said he oversaw employee and contractor security clearance processes at VA and State in his prior roles.

Wilder most recently worked for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and supported the agency’s legislative affairs related to counterintelligence and security, Federal Times’ Aaron Boyd reports.

She came to ODNI after a five-year stint at OPM’s FIS organization, according to the publication.

The General Services Administration‘s digital services unit 18F has closed the application period to fill two new leadership positions for director of chapters and director of custom partner solutions.

The director of chapters will join the management team to oversee 18F’s engineering, design, product, acquisition and development strategy units, which constitute half of the overall staff, 18F said Feb. 24.

18F added the director of custom partner solutions will head the customer partner solutions business unit, which involves a team of designers, developers and content creators who develop digital tools for initiatives such as Every Kid In A Park and College Scorecard.

The agency ended the call for applications Monday.

NASA and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement have entered an agreement that seeks to employ the aeronautics industry’s risk management practices in offshore operations in the Outer Continental Shelf.

NASA said Friday it will lend to BSEE its probabilistic risk assessment technique and related technologies from the Johnson Space Center failure analysis laboratory under the five-year agreement.

“​Both BSEE ​and NASA work in harsh and uncompromising environments, relying on cutting edge technology to go deeper and further than previously thought possible,” said BSEE Director Brian Salerno.

Salerno added the partnership will gather technical experts from both parties that will seek ways to strengthen protection for offshore workers and the environment.

“Whether the mission takes one to deep space, or into the deep ocean, the analysis of the environment, training of personnel and risk mitigation methods are similar,” said Jack James, Johnson center’s technology transfer strategist.

Lisa Schlosser, deputy federal chief information officer at the Office of Management and Budget, has taken the temporary roles of senior adviser and CIO at the Office of Personnel Management, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Greg Otto writes Schlosser succeeds acting CIO Dave Vargas and former full-time CIO Donna Seymour, who retired in February.

Schlosser will take over OPM’s cybersecurity activities as Vargas returns to his duties as associate CIO.

OPM Director Beth Cobert said in an internal memo obtained by FedScoop that Schlosser “brings a wealth of cross-government experience and a deep understanding of the challenges we face.”

Margie Graves, principal deputy CIO at the Department of Homeland Security, will serve as acting deputy administrator at OMB’s Office of E-Government and IT while Schlosser is at OPM, the report said.

DHS NextGen Executive Director Jeanne Etzel will be Graves’ temporary replacement at the agency, Otto reports.