The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to verify the accuracy of its real property inventory system that is used to make reports on leased assets.

GAO said Tuesday it found errors in nearly 15 percent of the Real Property Assets Database‘s lease records for fiscal year 2011 and 10 percent of the records for fiscal year 2013, mostly referring to the lease records for the U.S. Army.

The government watchdog found that the Army did not follow DoD guidance on how to report lease costs and that DoD lacked oversight of how security assessments are performed on leased assets.

GAO also found issues in the Federal Protective Service assessment data for fiscal years 2011 and 2013, such as omissions in schedule within the required period, overwritten data on previously recorded assessment dates and unrecorded dates for completed and next-scheduled assessments.

GAO recommended that DoD implement its guidance to include annual rent and other costs in lease records and request facility security assessment data from FPS.

John Edwards, a two-decade Intelligence Community veteran, took over as chief information officer of CIA in February, FCW reported Wednesday.

Sean Lyngaas writes Edwards has worked on the technical operations and engineering aspect of CIA for nearly 15 years before he joined the private sector.

He previously served as a consultant for Accenture and an executive at Agilex Technologies, which Accenture’s federal services business acquired in 2015.

Edwards succeeded Doug Wolfe, who has been appointed to a new senior CIA position, the report said.

Wolfe was instrumental in the Intelligence Community’s transition to a cloud computing platform built by Amazon Web Services, Lyngaas reports.

Tracy Terrill has been appointed in December to fill a newly created position as chief digital officer at the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Terrill supports the agency’s digital strategy under the new role, SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet said in a release published Tuesday.

“Tracy is a key member of my leadership team responsible for our digital strategy,” said Contreras-Sweet.

“In record time, Tracy has built a digital service team with top talent from both the private and public sector.”

Terrill said his work with SBA is similar to the role he previously held at LegalZoom, where he was chief technology officer for more than seven years.

Prior to that, Terrill also held sales, marketing, technology leadership and consultant positions at NBC Universal Studios, Universal Music Group, Warner Brothers and Gartner.

The General Services Administration will host a training and exhibition event from May 10 to 11 in Huntsville, Alabama.

Hosted by GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, the event will feature acquisition and training sessions for federal, military and civilian personnel and industry partners, GSA said Tuesday.

“Since we moved away from hosting GSA Expo a few years ago, we’ve consistently heard from federal agencies and our industry partners that the valuable training and collaboration opportunities provided by GSA training events are still very much needed,” said Tom Sharpe, FAS commissioner.

“As the government makes major changes to the federal procurement landscape through category management, GSA is developing new tools and resources to support this community of professionals,” Sharpe added.

Registration to the event is free for all federal attendees.