The National Institutes of Health has appointed Eric Dishman as the new director for a national research program that seeks to build up precision medicine efforts. Dishman, formerly a vice president at Intel and a
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Kristin Seaver, formerly vice president of operations for the U.S. Postal Service’s Capital Metro area, has been named executive vice president and chief information officer of USPS, the Wall Street Journal’s CIO
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The General Services Administration wants to move the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters to a new location in Northern Virginia. GSA said in a presolicitation notice posted Tuesday that it seeks anew office space in the region
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Bill Baer, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department‘s antitrust division, has been appointed to serve as interim associate attorney general effective April 17. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement posted Monday Baer led
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Dimitri Kusnezov, chief scientist at the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration, has been nominated to the role of deputy administrator for defense programs at NNSA. President Barack Obama announced Kusnezov’s nomination
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Carl Ghattas has been appointed as FBI‘s new assistant director for the counterterrorism division and will be based at the bureau headquarters in Washington. FBI Director James Comey has tasked the former special agent to oversee
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The Energy Department and the government of Kazakhstan have inked a new agreement for the use of an alternative energy source in the latter country in an effort to help reduce emissions
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John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA‘s science mission directorate, will retire from his post by the end of April. The four-decade space agency veteran has managed over 100 space missions, including the Curiosity
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Paige Hinkle-Bowles, deputy assistant secretary for civilian personnel policy at the Defense Department, has said DoD has begun to implement an enterprisewide appraisal program for civilian staff performance through its New Beginnings initiative, DoD
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of national infrastructure, energy and water resources; have signed an agreement to continue an existing clean energy collaboration between the two departments. DOE said Monday the
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