The Biden administration issued a last-minute executive order on AI infrastructure. And OPM has a new IT chief.

Trump has promised to accelerate the production of American-made AI to compete against China for global leadership in the technology.

OPM said technological advances necessitated the changes, but some stakeholders argued the modifications still don’t reflect current governmental needs.

Taka Ariga, the chief data officer at the Office of Personnel Management, said the agency is modernizing, better integrating the EHRI and FedScope databases.

Steve Hernandez, Education’s CISO, and Brian Bordelon, Education’s deputy CIO, have moved to new agencies to take on similar roles.

The Office of Personnel Management has a new top IT official: Melvin Brown II is now the agency’s chief information officer following Guy Cavallo’s retirement from federal service. Before his promotion, Brown was the deputy CIO at the agency and served in that role since January 2021.

The Marine Corps veteran has served as OPM’s deputy chief information officer since 2021. Prior to that, he worked in various roles across the Department of Homeland Security for eight years and spent seven years as the chief of staff for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Office of Information Technology.