Executive Moves - Page 34

Andrew Mara, most recently executive vice president at the Center for Naval Analyses, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as head of its national security analysis department, commonly referred

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

Drenan 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

Jim 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

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

Karl 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

The 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