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CRDF Global Appoints Tina Dolph as Chief Global Officer; CEO Michael Dignam Quoted
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CRDF Global Appoints Tina Dolph as Chief Global Officer; CEO Michael Dignam Quoted

CRDF Global announced on Monday that Tina Dolph, a four-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named chief global officer to grow the company’s global footprint through an expansion strategy as well as driving new capabilities in cybersecurity and other new technologies.

“In today’s increasingly complex and often uncertain global environment, there are few organizations like CRDF Global with the established track record of providing capacity building and stabilizing solutions urgently needed for human-centric challenges at scale,” said Dolph.

Previously, Tina Dolph had been the president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies since Oct 2018. Prior to that, Dolph served as the chief strategy officer for CRDF Global between Jan. 2018 and Oct. As Chief Global Officer, she will bring her extensive experience in global operations, critical infrastructure, and technology innovation to the company.

Her technical expertise in critical infrastructure and digital transformation is an important element of our strategic plan and organizational vision. Her ability to navigate the complexities of government modernization and security challenges will allow CRDF Global to expand and deepen or service offerings,” said CRDF Global CEO Michael Dignam.

CRDF Global continues to grow in the highly competitive and complex global technology threat environment, which will continue under Dolph’s leadership to sustain the company’s growth trajectory and help its customers address the latest and most complex global challenges.

Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, vice president for Research and Partnerships with the University of Oklahoma and CRDF Global Board Chair, explained that Tina Dolph will bring her background in cybersecurity solutions and visionary leadership to keep the company on the cutting edge of emerging technologies as they influence the federal landscape.

In addition, Tina Dolph is a board member for Valiant Integrated Services. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the post-9/11 veteran and military family national nonprofit Hope for the Warriors and the National Defense University Foundation.

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OMB Appoints Karin Orvis as Permanent Chief Statistician; Shalanda Young Quoted
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OMB Appoints Karin Orvis as Permanent Chief Statistician; Shalanda Young Quoted

Karin Orvis, director of the Defense Suicide Prevention Office, will be the new permanent U.S. chief statistician and branch chief for statistical and science policy at the Office of Management Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Federal News Network reported.

Orvis will take over for Dominic Mancini, deputy administrator of OIRA who has been serving as OMB’s chief statistician on an acting basis. It will be the first time that the OMB will have a permanent chief statistician since Nancy Potok left the position vacant in 2019.

In her new role, Orvis will oversee a decentralized network of federal agencies that produce statistical data to guide policymaking across the government and serve on the administration’s Equitable Data Working Group.

Orvis brings more than two decades of government experience. She previously served as director of the Department of Defense’s Transition to Veterans Program Office and acting principal director of Military Community and Family Policy.

“As someone who has led development, implementation, and evaluation of vital programs at the Department of Defense, she has invaluable experience to be a leader in the evolving federal statistical system. We’re thrilled to welcome her to OMB,” said Shalanda Young, director of OMB.

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House Bill Seeks to Create Regulatory Framework for Digital Asset Markets
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House Bill Seeks to Create Regulatory Framework for Digital Asset Markets

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and three other House lawmakers have introduced a bill to clarify the regulatory oversight process for cryptocurrency trading platforms.

The Digital Commodity Exchange Act of 2022 seeks to regulate spot stablecoin markets and complement investor protection efforts at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Khanna’s office said Thursday.

A document summarizing the bill indicates that the bipartisan legislation would bridge a gap between digital asset regulations set forth by SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

“To foster American innovation and tech job growth, Congress must establish a clear process for creating and trading digital commodities that prioritizes consumer protections, transparency and accountability,” Khanna said.

Reps. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Penn.; Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Darren Soto, D-Fla., are the other DCEA sponsors.

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DOE Lab to Update Grid Security Assessment Platform With Cyber Risk Visualization Tool
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DOE Lab to Update Grid Security Assessment Platform With Cyber Risk Visualization Tool

A Department of Energy-funded national laboratory plans to incorporate a cyber risk visualization feature into a web-based tool used to assess the security status of electric generation systems.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory said Friday it aims to help federal agency personnel visualize infrastructure data and threat scenarios through the integration of NREL’s Cyber Range and Distributed Energy Resource Cybersecurity Framework.

Government energy asset managers use DER-CF to monitor site-specific cybersecurity posture through a questionnaire and create an action plan based on recommendations from the online assessment.

Meanwhile, the NREL Cyber Range works to help researchers create grid environment simulations to study the interdependency and flow of information between power systems.

NREL’s integration project team expects to generate a static picture of the updated system by the end of the year.

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Charles River Analytics to Further Develop Ocean Mapping Tech With Additional Navy Funding
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Charles River Analytics to Further Develop Ocean Mapping Tech With Additional Navy Funding

Charles River Analytics has received additional funding from the U.S. Navy to further develop a technology platform that could help detect maritime objects and create maps of the ocean surface in real-time. 

The company said Tuesday the Real-Time Ortho-Mosaicking for Awareness and Navigation system is a set of software components that applies autonomy and computer vision for real-time ocean mapping and could enable the service branch to improve situational awareness for anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, counter-surveillance and other maritime operations.

ROMAN forms and continuously update an ortho-mosaic or detailed map of the sea surface by ingesting video from electro-optical and infrared sensors aboard an unmanned aircraft system.

Charles River received more than $1.1 million in funding from the Navy following a proof of concept of its technology.

“Keeping up-to-date maps over the open ocean and for aircraft to navigate without the aid of vulnerable external guidance information like GPS presents unique challenges. This project will help provide up-to-the-minute maps and navigational information in contested environments,” said Todd Jennings, a scientist at Charles River and principal investigator on the ROMAN project.

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Lawmakers Call for 5.1% Pay Raise for Federal Employees
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Lawmakers Call for 5.1% Pay Raise for Federal Employees

A group of 62 lawmakers led by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., urged the House Appropriations Committee to include in the fiscal year 2023 Financial Services and General Government appropriations measure a 5.1 percent salary increase for all federal employees.

The pay raise aligns with the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act that Connolly introduced in January, according to an April 26 letter sent to the House panel.

Legislators said the government underinvested in its federal workforce and the current administration overturned that trend by providing federal personnel with a pay raise of 2.7 percent in 2022 and eliminating prohibitions on union resources and operations.

They also highlighted the need for the government to remain competitive when recruiting the next generation of federal employees.

“With almost a third of the federal workforce eligible to retire in five years, we will face a talent crisis if we fail to make basic investments in federal pay that will attract early career talent to federal government service,” the letter reads.

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Trade Groups Urge Lawmakers to Sustain Support for Federal IT Modernization
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Trade Groups Urge Lawmakers to Sustain Support for Federal IT Modernization

Nine industry groups have called on House and Senate lawmakers to maintain support for federal information technology transformation by exceeding or meeting the $300 million that the Biden administration requested for the Technology Modernization Fund in its fiscal year 2023 budget proposal.

The associations asked the legislators through an April 29 letter that “appropriations be structured to help ensure agencies can make progress on IT modernization needs through additional flexibility.”

They highlighted the need for funding to meet the federal government’s cybersecurity goals and requirements in support of the cybersecurity executive order that directs agencies to adopt zero trust.

“Additional funding should be made available for agencies that are just getting started on their zero trust journeys because these cybersecurity efforts are essential to maintaining a strong federal network defense posture for years to come,” the letter reads.

The letter was signed by Alliance for Digital Innovation, Professional Services Council, The Center for Procurement Advocacy, CompTIA, Information Technology Industry Council, National Defense Industrial Association, Security Industry Association, TechNet and the Software & Information Industry Association.

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Erin Collins: IRS Should Broaden Online Account Application’s Functionality
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Erin Collins: IRS Should Broaden Online Account Application’s Functionality

National Taxpayer Associate Erin Collins said the Internal Revenue Service should improve online service offerings to better meet the needs of individual and corporate taxpayers and tax professionals and one of the measures is the need to expand online account functionality and features.

Collins wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the Online Account application should provide taxpayers with the capability to easily access IRS online tools, information and services.

“The IRS should continue to leverage its online services to provide personalized messages based on the specific taxpayer’s interaction,” she wrote. “By including targeted links to IRS.gov and IRS video content, the IRS could promote compliance and bolster taxpayer satisfaction relatively inexpensively.”

Collins noted that the IRS has made progress when it comes to enhancing the identity authentication process to protect sensitive financial data and prevent fraud and suggested that taxpayers should be given a capability to get access to digital services using a self-service mechanism or a video chat agent during the identity verification process. 

“A single secure log-in combined with a consolidated resources page or customer hub shown after log-in may increase taxpayer confidence and knowledge in using online services and products,” she added.

Collins also highlighted the need for the IRS to provide taxpayers with the ability to use a single portal that would enable them to transmit and receive messages, check the status of an amended or original tax return, download and upload data and documents and receive emails of pending action items, among others.

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SAIC Names Dan Jensen VP of Government Affairs
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SAIC Names Dan Jensen VP of Government Affairs

Experienced public sector executive and lobbyist Dan Jensen has joined SAIC as vice president of government affairs.

After two and a half years with General Dynamics Mission Systems, Jensen will return to partnering with members of Congress to address issues of national security and space on behalf of SAIC, the executive wrote in a LinkedIn post in February.

“I am thrilled to announce the next chapter in my career has officially begun,” Jensen exclaimed.

Jensen began his 25-year career working under Buck McKeon, a House representative from California, and subsequently spent time as government relations manager for the American Traffic Safety Services Association.

Next, Jensen entered the lobbying world, working as a lobbyist for Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm Alcalde & Fay and the American Public Works Association.

Afterward, Jensen pivoted to the arena of intelligence law. He was associate director of legislative affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for over seven years and chief of legislative affairs in the office of the director of National Intelligence for six years.

In addition to legislature, intelligence, lobbying and congressional relations, Jensen is skilled in foreign policy, strategic communications and cyber defense.

Prior to coming to SAIC, the newly appointed VP was director of strategy and business development at GDMS, where his efforts focused on expanding the company’s outreach and impact in the defense and cyber sectors.

Jensen is conversant in Arabic and is a graduate of Thomas Edison State University, George Mason University and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

His hire follows SAIC’s addition of W. Scott Gould to its strategic advisory board earlier this month, as well as the company’s March appointment of Judy Lewis as vice president of business development.

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FAA to Invest $1B Infrastructure Funding in Air Traffic Control System; Bradley Mims Quoted
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FAA to Invest $1B Infrastructure Funding in Air Traffic Control System; Bradley Mims Quoted

The Federal Aviation Administration is investing the initial $1 billion funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the U.S. air traffic control system to maintain, repair and replace buildings and equipment.

The law allocates $5 billion in total budget for air traffic control and the first year of funding will be used to reinforce navigation, weather and tracking equipment and replace towers and long-range radar systems, the FAA said Wednesday.

The initial funding will also support the improvements of approach and departure facilities, the restoration of personnel safety infrastructure and the recruitment of installation technicians and engineers.

The modernization effort is expected to create job opportunities for local workers, suppliers and communities across the country.

“We are going to make sure small and disadvantaged businesses owned by women and minorities have the chance to do this work so we can expand jobs and opportunities across the country,” said Bradley Mims, deputy administrator of FAA.

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