GSA Names Emergency Response Chief

GSA has installed its first-ever chief emergency response and recovery officer. It's Richard Reed, who had been serving as director of continuity of operations policy at the White House Homeland Security Council. Before that, he was director of the Operations Division of the Office of National Security Coordination at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. GSA's new Office of Emergency Response and Recovery, the agency says, "is responsible for coordinating all GSA resources in support of first responders, emergency workers and recovery teams across all levels of government."