Denice Ross, former chief data scientist at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, has been named deputy chief technology officer for tech capacity, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

She is responsible for ensuring openness, equity and effectiveness in the technological endeavors of local, state, federal, tribal and territorial government entities.

Ross joined OSTP as chief data scientist in November 2021. Prior to that, she was a senior fellow of the National Conference on Citizenship, and a fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation.

Earlier in her career, Ross held the position of senior advisor of community solutions at the Office of Management and Budget. She was also part of the Commerce Agency Review Team during the presidential transition to the Biden-Harris administration.

Ross succeeds Lynne Parker as deputy CTO, and was replaced by Dominique Duval-Diop in the chief data scientist role.

Don Yeske, acting chief technology officer at the Department of the Navy’s office of the chief information officer, will step down from his current role on June 16 to assume a new position at the Department of Homeland Security, he announced in a LinkedIn post.

In January, he took over the position at DON CIO from Jane Rathburn, who was promoted to principal deputy CIO.

In his post on the social media platform, Yeske mentioned the information technology modernization initiatives his team has implemented.

“I’m also deeply proud of the work this team has done over the past year and a half, which includes things like laying out our full technology strategy, designating the very first DON-wide enterprise IT service (the Naval Integrated Modeling Environment), creating Naval Identity Services, and articulating a vision and strategy for transforming our legacy global networks into a modern, data-centric ecosystem,” he wrote.

Yeske joined DON CIO in October 2021 as chief solutions architect.

He previously served as head of the expeditionary enterprise systems and services division at the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic.

Prior to NIWC Atlantic, Yeske was head of future operations at the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters. He also served as a senior IT adviser at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

The executive additionally held IT roles at SAIC and Northrop Grumman.

Gen. Eric Smith, assistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, is expected to be nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as head of the service branch, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Smith would succeed Gen. David Berger, who is set to retire after serving for four years as commandant of USMC, on the Joint Chiefs of Staff if confirmed by the Senate.

Sources familiar with the matter said the White House could disclose Smith’s nomination in the next few days.

Smith previously served as deputy commandant for combat development and integration and as senior military assistant to the deputy secretary of defense and secretary of defense.

He also served as head of Marine Corps Forces Southern Command, III Marine Expeditionary Force, 1st Marine Division and Marine Corps Combat Development Command.

Mike Bosco has joined Day & Zimmermann as senior vice president of business development for government services.

The retired U.S. Army Sergeant Major will bring over 20 years of experience as a military and interagency leader to his new role, D&Z shared with ExecutiveGov in an email sent on Tuesday.

During his first of two decades of service in the Army, Bosco worked within the U.S. Special Operations Command and was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and Special Operations Command Pacific. He spent the second half of his military career in a Special Missions Unit.

Throughout his time in the Army, he also served with a number of Intelligence Community organizations as the single Department of Defense representative to forward intelligence operations and special activities regarding Foreign Intelligence Services cooperation.

His service has been recognized with multiple military and IC awards, including the Director of National Intelligence Certificate of Distinction and the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation.

After retiring from the military in 2012, Bosco carried his national security work to the private sector, where he has held numerous executive roles. He most recently served as senior vice president of Army mission solutions and C5ISR at Sev1Tech, and earlier, he headed Akima’s Emerging Markets Group as vice president.

Bosco has held additional leadership positions at Ops Tech Alliance, Altamira Technologies and BAE Systems.

His appointment follows several executive transitions within D&Z this year, including the January selection of Doug Magee as president of the organization’s Government Services Group.

More recently, D&Z added four former Central Intelligence Agency officials to its advisory board to guide the company’s mission-critical, worldwide operations for both public and private sector clients. These officials include Jeanne Foster, Mark Kelton, Stephen Perron and Phil Reilly.