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The Office of Personnel Management has announced plans to introduce two direct hiring authorities as part of its civil service reform efforts, Federal Times reported Thursday. Agencies will have a DHA for engineering; economics; math, statistics and actuarial sciences; physical science; and biological sciences effective next week.
 

Michael Brown, former Symantec CEO, has been named managing director of the Defense Innovation Unit. “Mike’s extensive Silicon Valley career speaks for itself, as he has experience in both hardware from his time at Quantum, as well as software at Symantec,” Mike Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said in a statement published Monday.

The U.S. Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center recently held its fourth annual open house where it demonstrated its investments in modern technologies for telemedicine, Federal News Radio reported Friday.

Sam Musa, former chief of information technology services for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has joined the Government Publishing Office as its new chief information officer. Musa’s new responsibilities include managing IT policies on the acquisition, implementation and operation of telecommunications and IT systems and ensuring the agency’s budget aligns with program plans and established financial guidelines, GPO said Monday.

John Zangardi, chief information officer of the Department of Homeland Security, believes the General Services Administration’s $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract will help the DHS effectively reform its IT systems, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Department of Homeland Security official Scott Tousley has said the ransomware attack on Atlanta, Ga., in March should serve as a warning to municipalities to prepare for similar attacks in the future, MeriTalk reported Wednesday.

Kelly Olson, chief of the General Service Administration’s Technology Transformation Service, has been chosen as the organization’s new director, FedScoop reported Wednesday.
 

Michael Conlin, vice president and chief technology officer for defense at Perspecta, has been named the first chief data officer of the Defense Department, FedScoop reported Thursday. The appointment is part of DoD’s prioritization of data management operations. Conlin will help the department move out of its legacy information technology …

Bill Zielinski, an information technology category executive at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, will serve as acting assistant commissioner for GSA’s IT category starting October, FCW reported Thursday. He will replace Kay Ely, who is set to leave GSA by the end of September to take a 90-day …

John Sherman, chief information officer of the Intelligence Community, said the IC will implement new information technology practices as it enters the second modernization era to boost coordination across several federal agencies, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. Sherman noted during the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference that the new IT effort will help the …