DHS, Air Force get new CIOs

23.06.2005
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President George W. Bush has tapped Lawrence Scott Charbo to serve as CIO at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Charbo currently serves as CIO at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and once directed that agency"s Office of Business and Program Integration. Before joining the administration, Charbo was president of mPower3/Emerge in Greeley, Colo., and once worked as director of Environmental and Regulatory Services at Tri-State Delta Chemicals Inc. in Memphis.

Charbo, who has a bachelor"s degree from the University of Tampa and a master"s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, replaces Steve Cooper, who resigned in April. Cooper left the DHS to become CIO at the American Red Cross. In the interim, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Ronald Hewitt has been acting CIO for the homeland security agency.

The president has also nominated Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Peterson to serve as director of the U.S. Air Force"s new IT office and as Chief of Warfighting Integration and CIO (SAF/XC), said Capt. James Cunningham, an Air Force spokesman.

In his new role, Peterson will work for the secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff to oversee the integration of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of air and space power.

Bush submitted Peterson"s name to the U.S. Senate for appointment to lieutenant general on June 16, Cunningham said.

Peterson is currently the director of the Air Force"s Strategic Command and Air Component Coordination Element in the U.S. Strategic Command, he said.

Peterson, who will serve as director of information, services and integration until his Senate confirmation, entered the Air Force in 1974 and directed Air Force communications supporting the air war over Serbia and no-fly zone operations over southern Iraq. He has served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a space operations advisory capacity and was assigned to two major commands as Director of Communications and Information Systems.

Gen. William Hobbins currently serves as acting director of the Air Force"s new IT office.