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YOUR TRANSITION BRIEF
Contents
1 Focus on Communications, Not Policy, Sets Trump Transition Apart (The Hill)

Appointments and Nominations

2 DHS CISO: Cyber Needs Continuous Investment in Next Administration (Nextgov)

3 Trump’s Unorthodox Transition Leaves Government in Uncharted Territory (Government Executive)

4 How Career Executives Can Navigate the Presidential Transition (The Washington Post)

5 Climate Change Conversations Are Targeted in Questionnaire to Energy Department (The New York Times)

6 Trump Says No Deals While in Office; Sons Will Run Company (Bloomberg)

7 Trump Close to Building out Senior White House Team (Politico)

8 Tips for Surviving Your Agency’s New Political Appointees (Federal News Radio)

 
Focus on Communications, Not Policy, Sets Trump Transition Apart

What makes the Trump transition unusual is the extreme focus on communications, evidenced by the responsibilities of its staff leadership team.

The Hill
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Appointments and Nominations

≫ Ben Carson — Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (in Politico)

≫ James Mattis — Secretary of Defense (in The Washington Post)

≫ Linda McMahon — Small Business Administrator (in The Wall Street Journal)

≫ Rick Perry — Secretary of Energy (in The New York Times)

≫ Scott Pruitt — EPA Administrator (in Politico)

≫ Andrew Puzder — Secretary of Labor (in The New York Times )

≫ Rex Tillerson — Secretary of State (on NPR)

≫ Vincent Viola — Secretary of the Army (in Politico)

≫ Ryan Zinke — Secretary of the Interior (in The Washington Post)

 
DHS CISO: Cyber Needs Continuous Investment in Next Administration

The upcoming presidential transition shouldn't disrupt the federal government's cyber commitments, a senior cyber official said Tuesday.

Nextgov
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Charting the Future: A Mission Driven Homeland Security Enterprise

This is the second survey of the five-year 20/20 Project on the Homeland Security Enterprise. The Project aims to capture perspectives from government and industry executives engaged in homeland security missions on critical challenges and future opportunities facing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the broader interagency and public-private partnership that is the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE).

Grant Thornton
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Trump’s Unorthodox Transition Leaves Government in Uncharted Territory

Viewed from the agency level, where deputies and undersecretary slots await appointment, Trump’s whirlwind Cabinet auditions at New York’s Trump Tower are unusual, if not chaotic.

Government Executive
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How Career Executives Can Navigate the Presidential Transition

For federal employees, this can be an unsettling time with many unknowns that include probable policy changes and new personalities calling the shots. But it also can be an opportunity for career executives to lay the groundwork for productive working relationships with the new team.

The Washington Post
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Climate Change Conversations Are Targeted in Questionnaire to Energy Department

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as emails and documents associated with the conferences.

The New York Times
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Annual CFO Survey: The CFO in Transition

Learn how CFOs and other leaders in the CFO community are addressing the impending change in leadership as well as other major issues and challenges they anticipate during the transition to a new administration.

Grant Thornton
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Trump Says No Deals While in Office; Sons Will Run Company

President-elect Donald Trump gave his first clues as to how he’ll step away from his businesses, saying he would put his two sons Don and Eric in charge by Inauguration Day Jan. 20 but offering no information about his own role.

Bloomberg
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Trump Close to Building out Senior White House Team

The president-elect appears poised to set up competing power centers in the West Wing

Politico
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Tips for Surviving Your Agency’s New Political Appointees

Long-time federal executive Ira Goldstein offer some ways and means of working with the incoming transition team to achieve personal and organizational success.

Federal News Radio
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