Executive Moves - Page 99

The Department of Veterans Affairs has made six new appointments to fill roles related to the areas of health, benefits, policy, information technology and enterprise integration. Julia Cardozo, formerly an assistant state’s

Peter Highnam, deputy director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is set to leave the U.S. on May 3 for the U.K. to lead Britain’s new inventions organization. Highnam will serve

Leaders of House and Senate Armed Services Committees have appointed former Department of Defense officials to a 14-member commission tasked with evaluating the effectiveness of DOD’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution process.

The Federal Communications Commission has made five appointments that determine the leadership of four bureaus and the FCC’s legal functions. Alejandro Roark, formerly the executive director of HTTP, will serve as chief

Lawrence Wong, a former Accenture exec, has been named senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Veritas Technologies. The role will entail Wong creating and implementing a cloud strategy to build on Veritas’

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, in Indiana has named Kyle Werner, Dane Speer, Brent Voigtschild and James Ross as new members of its executive leadership team. The four new directors

Laurie Leshin, the president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will serve as the new director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of the California Institute of Technology, effective May 16. She

Lisa Guess, senior vice president of solutions engineering for cloud technology company Cradlepoint, has been selected for membership by the Federal Communications Commission’s Technological Advisory Committee. Guess will represent all of Ericsson, the Swedish

Rebecca Chhim, a more than two-decade veteran of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island, has been promoted to lead an internal department that focuses on helping the U.S.