FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Wednesday named retired Rear...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Wednesday named retired Rear Adm. David Simpson chief of the Public Safety Bureau, replacing David Turetsky, who is staying at the commission (http://fcc.us/1jncM2j). Simpson was most recently vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, which…
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oversees communications for the military. From 2009-2010, he was director for Communications and Information Services for U.S. Forces serving in Iraq. Simpson is the second former Navy flag officer named to the post. Retired Rear Adm. Jamie Barnett was chief of the bureau from 2009 through April 2012. Simpson graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and holds a master’s degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School. “Simpson’s extensive experience managing and securing complex and disparate information environments worldwide makes him exceptionally well suited to lead” the bureau, Wheeler said. Barnett said in an email he worked with Simpson at the Pentagon. “He is steeped in networks and cybersecurity,” Barnett said. “I think this signals where Chairman Wheeler would like to go.” Turetsky’s new job at the FCC is coordinator of the FCC’s informal task force on the response to international disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan, the FCC said.