President Joe Biden has nominated Stephen Owen for the role of chairman of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. The CSB is an independent federal agency tasked with investigating chemical accidents and recommending ways to improve chemical safety. Owens became a member of the CSB in December 2021 after receiving Senate confirmation. Since he […]
President Joe Biden has nominated Shailen Bhatt to serve as director of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Bhatt would lead an organization tasked with helping state and local governments maintain the national highway system and various federal and tribal-owned lands. Bhatt is currently senior vice president of […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it has fully implemented its own electronic health records system. The EHR system is developed specifically for CBP and is built into the agency’s Web Emergency Operations Center application. According to a privacy impact statement for the app, WebEOC is used for incident management, event tracking, facility and […]
President Joe Biden has nominated Jeff Marootian for the role of assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Marootian currently works in the White House’s Office of Presidential Personnel as a special assistant to the president. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm released a statement highlighting Marootian’s experience in implementing sustainable transportation policy, the Department […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $96 million for efforts to reduce emissions in the domestic transportation sector. DOE said the investment will advance President Joe Biden’s vision of achieving a net-zero economy by 2050. According to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s goal requires wider access to electric vehicles as well as the modernization […]
The Department of Energy has tapped Raytheon Technologies to work on projects to explore the potential of hydrogen and ammonia to enable clean electricity generation. Raytheon said it will work on two projects. The first is focused on evaluating how well the Mitsubishi Power Aero FT4000 gas turbine unit, a land-based version of the PW4000 […]
The Internal Revenue Service believes that the funds it received through the American Rescue Plan in 2021 could allow it to increase its IT modernization programs. The IRS said in its IT Annual Key Insights Report that it was able to deliver over 80 new capabilities in the first three years of its six-year IT […]
Jaime Lizarraga, a former legislative adviser, has been sworn in as a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Senate confirmed his appointment on June 16. Lizarraga has three decades of experience in public service, most recently serving as an adviser to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In the said role, he worked […]
The Department of Justice’s U.S. Marshals Service accelerated its mission system modernization efforts in 2015, when the agency experienced a highly complex issue that it could not fix, a senior official said. Jarrod Bruner, a senior executive at USMS leading a modernization program management office, said the agency had to develop a modernization strategy that […]
The Senate has confirmed Michael Morgan as the new deputy administrator of the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He will also serve as the assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction. Morgan is now in charge of providing direction on weather, water, climate, ocean observation efforts and environmental threat prediction, […]
