Executive Moves - Page 71

The Senate has unanimously confirmed Nathaniel Fick to serve as ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy at the State Department. Fick will head the newly established Bureau of Cyberspace and

Nina Chen, a chemical engineer with experience working in the financial services sector, has been appointed to serve as the chief climate risk officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the

Thomas Zurbuchen is stepping down as associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the end of 2022 after being in the position since 2016. The space agency said Wednesday Zurbuchen is

U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the White House’s nominee for the role of chief of space operations, said that if confirmed, he would prioritize the development and deployment of

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James Glynn has been nominated to serve as the service branch’s next deputy commandant for manpower and reserve affairs. Glynn, the deputy commanding general of Training and

President Biden intends to nominate Renee Wegrzyn, vice president of business development at biotechnology company Ginkgo Bioworks, to be the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Wegrzyn’s

Major Gen. Francis Donovan, director of the Office of Marine Corps Communication, has been nominated to serve as the U.S. Special Operations Command’s next vice commander. Donovan will receive a promotion to

Brig. Gen. Christopher Povak, former deputy director of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Warfighting Analysis Center, formally assumed the National Reconnaissance Office’s No. 2 post and took charge of the service branch’s

Multi-industry executive Eric Schwartz has been named chief executive officer at data center builder and digital infrastructure services provider CyrusOne. Schwartz was voted into office by CyrusOne’s board of directors and his appointment is effective

Steve Thur, a nearly two-decade veteran of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been named assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research. He will assume his new position in early October