The job announcement posted by the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s LinkedIn account comes just two weeks after Arrington announced she was the DOD’s new chief information security officer. Leslie Beavers, who had been serving as acting CIO since John Sherman stepped down last June, will resume her primary position as principal deputy CIO, the LinkedIn post adds.
Arrington “has begun performing the duties of DOD CIO and does not concurrently have the role of DOD CISO,” a defense official told Nextgov/FCW. The statement suggests that a permanent CISO for the Defense Department has been picked or will be picked in her place. No reason for the new position was provided.
Arrington joined the Defense Department in 2019 — following a single term in the South Carolina House — and served in the Pentagon’s Office of Acquisition and Sustainment in President Donald Trump’s first term. She was a major cultivator of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, better known as CMMC, which encourages DOD contractors to augment their baseline cyber posture to shield the Defense Department and its private sector partners from cyberattacks.
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