DHS Under Secretary Spaulding Confirmed

According to a TWEET® from @DSenFloor this morning the Senate  confirmed Suzanne Spaulding as the DHS Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate. She has been filling this position as Acting Under Secretary since her predecessor Rand Beers moved up to the Acting DHS Secretary position. NPPD is responsible for both the CFATS program and ICS-CERT.

Not unexpectedly, the confirmation came by a voice vote.

Spaulding to be Undersecretary for NPPD

By way of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing notice we learn that Susan Spaulding, the current acting Undersecretary for National Protection and Programs (while Rand Beers fills in as Acting Secretary of DHS) is being nominated to fill that temporary position on an official basis. I suppose that means that Beers is going to either be appointed DHS Secretary or Deputy Secretary (currently empty as well) or is going to be retiring.

Actually it turns out, upon further research, that Spaulding’s promotion was announced last month. Still no real word on where Beers goes.