By Lauren C. Williams
The White House has nominated Kathleen Miller, the administrative assistant to the Army secretary, to be the Defense Department’s comptroller.
The career government executive currently leads 600 personnel and oversees support and infrastructure functions, such as human resources, budget, publications, and records management, across the Army and its headquarters.
The White House announced Miller’s nomination on May 28.
Miller, who has been in the Army role since 2018, served several roles in the Army, including assistant deputy chief of staff of Army operations, plans and training and the principal assistant deputy chief of staff for logistics. She was also the acting deputy chief financial officer and associate chief financial officer at the IRS.
The federal government s Quality Services Management Offices, set up to deliver services in grants, financial management, human resources and cybersecurity, are chugging along in the proposed FY2022 budget.
By Shawn Henry
President Joe Biden s new cybersecurity executive order (EO) attempts to fix some persistent issues with national and federal cybersecurity. But can it work? As someone who has spent more than two decades working in government and now a decade in the private sector confronting cyber threats, a few provisions stand out.
If the changes laid out within the EO are implemented and funded correctly, we could see huge changes within agencies in the next year. The federal government would be mandated (for the first time) to leverage the same technologies the private sector has been using to their advantage for years. Ultimately, the Biden Administration is looking to make U.S. infrastructure more resilient, and the EO is a step in the right direction, but there is still much work to be done.
Guidance sent to agencies on Tuesday makes clear that agencies can t start phasing feds back into the workplace until they ve satisfied collective bargaining requirements.