Deanne Criswell, who worked at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2011 to 2017, was nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as administrator of FEMA. Biden also chose David Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA and current head of WilmerHale’s business and financial integrity group, to assume the position he held at the agency from 2015 to 2017.
Read More »GSA Selects Everbridge to Provide CEM Platform; Mike Mostow Quoted
The General Services Administration (GSA) has selected Everbridge’s Mass Notification platform to secure the agency’s employees, facilities and operations. Everbridge’s CEM platform will help keep employees safe and informed across a variety of threats such as a global pandemic, hurricanes, wildfires, cyberattacks, IT outages and more. Everbridge received its FedRAMP authorization in 2018.
Read More »Biden Picks Rep. Deb Haaland, Jennifer Granholm for Interior Dept, DOE Leadership Roles
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to serve as secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), and Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan, to be secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE). Haaland and Granholm are among the nominees and appointees to the incoming administration’s climate team.
Read More »EPA Provides Updates on Lean Management System Implementation; Mary Walker Quoted
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deployed to 83 percent of the organization a system that uses lean principles to achieve continuous process improvement. The EPA Lean Management System (ELMS) has six components and those are visual management, problem solving, cascading performance measures, standard process, leader behaviors and business reviews and huddles.
Read More »Battelle Supports EPA Projects to Research COVID-19; Ryan James, Meg Howard Quoted
Battelle has announced that its company researchers have supported three Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projects to analyze the timeline of how long COVID-19 lives on a variety of surfaces and what available disinfecting products are effective, the company announced on Wednesday.
Read More »None of 24 Agencies Received Failing Grades on 10th FITARA Scorecard
The 10th iteration of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard shows that no agency got an F or a D rating. The General Services Administration (GSA) is the only agency that received an A+ rating, while nine agencies got B scores and the remaining agencies secured Cs.
Read More »CVP Secures CAMD Contract to Support EPA Emission Data; Anirudh Kulkarni Quoted
CVP has been awarded the three-year, Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) application portfolio modernization program contract for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to capture and report on emissions data for the EPA, industry, state and public.
Read More »Laura Stanton Named Acting Assistant Commissioner for GSA’s IT Category
Laura Stanton, deputy assistant commissioner for the information technology category at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, will serve as acting assistant commissioner of ITC in June, Federal News Network reported Monday. She will take over the responsibilities of Bill Zielinski, who will step down from his role on June 5 after three decades of federal service to serve as a chief information officer of a large city on the west coast.
Read More »Jacobs Participates in SERDP Research to Develop New Methods for PFAS Site Characterization; Jan Walstrom Quoted
Jacobs has collaborated with Principal Investigator Dr. David Hanigan at the University of Nevada, Reno, to participate in a research and development grant from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) for Rapid Site Profiling of Organofluorine: Quantification of PFASs by Combustion Gas Analysis, the company announced on Thursday.
Read More »OMB Unveils Cyber Detail Program for Federal Employees; Suzette Kent Quoted
The Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday announced a cyber detail program that seeks to provide federal employees who have completed cyber training an opportunity to work on cyber projects at other agencies in order to gain practical experience, Fifth Domain reported Wednesday.
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