Biden taps nominees for chief weapons tester, CIO

President Biden intends to nominate Nickolas Guertin to be Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation, and John Sherman to be the Defense Department's chief information officer.

Geurtin most recently “performed applied research for government and academia in software-reliant and cyber-physical systems for the past four years at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute,” according to a White House announcement.

“Over his career, he has been in leadership of organizational transformation, improving competition, application of modular open system approaches, as well as prototyping and experimentation. He has also researched and published extensively on system design, testing and acquisition,” the White House said.

Meanwhile, Sherman most recently served as the acting DOD chief information officer and CIO for the intelligence community. Prior to that, he served as deputy director of the CIA’s Open Source Enterprise. He has also served as a deputy national intelligence officer on the National Intelligence Council.