President Joe Biden has expressed his intent to nominate W. Kimryn Rathmell, a physician-scientist oncologist and educator, to lead the National Cancer Institute. “The National Cancer Institute is central to the success of the
MoreDrenan Dudley, deputy national cyber director for strategy and budget at the Office of the National Cyber Director, will assume responsibilities as acting head of the office while the White House awaits
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Rajiv Uppal has been selected as the next chief information officer of the Internal Revenue Service. Uppal, who is currently part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will assume his
MoreJim Free, associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate since 2021, has been promoted to associate administrator, succeeding Bob Cabana, who is retiring at the end of the year after
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Wendy Piazza has been selected by Platform Aerospace as its new director of contracts. She brings over two decades of contracting experience to Platform, the Hollywood, Maryland-based company shared with ExecutiveGov in an
MoreKarl Mathias, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, will step down as CIO on Dec. 1 to assume an engineering role at
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NASA has appointed Denton Gibson as launch director of the Kennedy Space Center Launch Services Program, which he has been a part of since 2004. Gibson, who previously served as senior mission
MoreThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has appointed space industry veteran Janice Starzyk as deputy director of the Office of Space Commerce and space law practitioner Gabriel Swiney as head of OSC’s
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Marlan Macklin, former chief of the communications and electronics division for the U.S. Mission to NATO, has been named deputy principal director for future G at the Office of the Under Secretary
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Satellite communications company Intelsat has appointed Raytheon alum David Broadbent as its president of government solutions. Reporting to CEO and seven-time Wash100 Award recipient Dave Wajsgras, Broadbent will oversee the international government solutions team and has been added
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