Fedscoop: When former acting Office of Personnel Management Director Beth Cobert asked Dave DeVries in 2016 to take over the agency’s beleaguered CIO role, his initial answer was no.
At the time the principal deputy CIO at the Defense Department, DeVries had his sights set on retirement from federal service and a move back home to Michigan. But it was his sense of duty, he told FedScoop, that would sway him to accept the chief IT position at OPM, just years removed from the most catastrophic data breach in federal history.
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