Natalie Alms

5 days ago | cyberera.com.ng | Natalie Alms

By Natalie AlmsInterior is the latest federal agency to undergo leadership turnover in its technology shop since Trump took office in January. About a month after the department moved to dismiss several top executives at the Interior Department following their objections to giving the Department of Government Efficiency access to a federal personnel and payroll system, the Interior Department has tapped a SpaceX alum, Paul McInerny, to lead the department’s technology.

5 days ago | cyberera.com.ng | Natalie Alms

The change leaves the Treasury Department’s tech leadership bench practically emptyBy Natalie AlmsThe Treasury Department’s acting chief information officer is on his way out, making Treasury’s technology shop the latest to see turnover in the early months of Trump 2.0.Treasury’s principal deputy CIO, Jeff King has been serving as the department’s acting CIO since late March, when the department’s previous tech lead left the post.

6 days ago | nextgov.com | Natalie Alms

A longtime Palantir employee, Clark Minor, is the new chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to an internal email sent Thursday and obtained by Nextgov/FCW. The previous CIO, Jennifer Wendel, first started working in the federal government in 1996 and moved to the HHS CIO shop in early 2023.

6 days ago | nextgov.com | Natalie Alms

Leadership vacancies are creating upheaval within many agencies’ data ecosystems, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Data Foundation. At least seventeen evaluation officers, chief data officers and statistical official positions across federal agencies were considered unoccupied — either without anyone in them or with another official "acting" to fill the role in a non-permanent basis — as of last week when the report was released.

1 week ago | govexec.com | Natalie Alms

The Interior Department is finalizing reduction-in-force plans expected to target thousands of employees, including 1,500 at the National Park Service, with notices going out to employees within 10 days. The anticipated layoffs follow the departure of thousands of Interior employees leaving the department under various incentives.