Howard Hu, formerly the deputy manager of NASA’s Orion Program, has been promoted to succeed Catherine Koerner as the spacecraft’s program manager.

Hu holds over three decades of NASA experience including technical and leadership work for the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle Program, the Vehicle Integration Office and human exploration initiatives, the space agency said Tuesday.

He previously held managerial roles spanning Orion’s avionics, software and power systems.

Koerner will go on to serve as the deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at the space agency’s Washington, D.C.-based headquarters.

The Orion spacecraft is scheduled to perform an uncrewed lunar flyby this year in the first mission of NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to eventually revive manned space exploration.

“With the upcoming Artemis I mission, we are on the cusp of another major milestone toward NASA’s goals of landing the first woman and first person of color on the Moon and preparing for human missions to Mars,” Hu said.

Retired Major General John George has been named army strategic account executive of science and technology services company Leidos.

George will leverage his over three decades of experience in the U.S. Army to act as a liaison between Leidos and the service branch in order to create growth opportunities for his new employer, the Reston, Virginia-based company said Tuesday.

“General George brings a distinguished career and wealth of international, military and technology experience to our growing team here at Leidos,” said Debbie Opiekun, chief business development officer of Leidos.

In his time with the Army, George occupied strategic and administrative positions while stationed in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. George was chief of force issue and requirements for NATO while deployed in both Kosovo and Afghanistan.

During his various assignments, George won the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters and the Joint Service Commendation Medal.

His most recent position with the Army, pre-retirement, was commander of the Combat Capabilities Development Command. In this role, George managed a $13 billion budget for science and technology modernization and research and development under the branch’s most sizable technology developer.

The retired Major General’s new job at Leidos looks to build on his previously established communication and networking skills, particularly in the latter position, where he accessed a worldwide network of government agencies, academic institutions and commercial industry players.

In the process, George’s future work is aimed to “expand [Leidos’] global presence,” Opiekun shared.

The new hire follows Leidos’ appointment of Patrick Shanahan to its board of directors in February and former Air Force exec Terry Phillips as its senior vice president and chief security officer in January.

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Rob Collins, program executive officer for command, control and communications-tactical, will move to the Pentagon in the summer to assume the role of deputy of acquisition and systems management at the office of the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.

Maj. Gen. Tony Potts, head of PEO Soldier at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, will succeed Collins as PEO C3T and oversee the modernization of the Army’s network, the service branch said Monday.

Prior to PEO C3T, Collins served as PEO for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors. He also held the roles of assistant PEO IEW&S, project manager for Distributed Common Ground System-Army and Department of the Army systems coordinator for Tactical Army Communications systems.

Potts has been serving as head of PEO Soldier since January 2018. He previously served as deputy commanding general for Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, senior commander for the service’s Natick Soldier Systems Center and deputy for acquisition and systems management for PEO Missiles and Space.

Oliver Wise, formerly director of recovery solutions at software company Tyler Technologies, will join the Department of Commerce on March 14 as chief data officer.

Wise said Saturday in a LinkedIn post he will be responsible for executing the department’s data strategy to support evidence-based decision-making processes and align information resources across the organization.

He will succeed former interim Commerce Department CDO Thomas Beach and be based in the Office of the Undersecretary of Economic Affairs in Washington, D.C.

His career also includes time at Socrata, which Tyler Technologies acquired in April 2018, the New Orleans Office of Performance and Accountability, RAND Corp. and the New York-based Citizens Budget Commission.