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Doctors leading the largest study ever of suicide and mental health in the military are developing intensive soldier surveys that they hope will provide clues a...

Doctors leading the largest study ever of suicide and mental health in the military are developing intensive soldier surveys that they hope will provide clues as to why suicide rates among Army personnel have grown dramatically in recent years. The study is a collaboration between the National Institute of Mental Health and the Army. The Washington Post reports the two groups will be looking for data from every soldier recruited into the Army over the next three years as well as from about 90,000 soldiers already in the service.

The General Services Administration today announced the appointment of Bob Peck to serve as the Commissioner of Public Buildings. As Commissioner, Peck will lead one of the largest real estate organizations in the world and be responsible for managing the federal government’s building portfolio. Peck returns to GSA after previously serving as the Commissioner of Public Buildings during the Clinton administration. He will oversee an annual budget of more than $8 billion nd a work force of more than 6,200.

Mischel Kwon, the director of the Homeland Security Department’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team has resigned, FCW reports. Meanwhile, RSA, the Security Division of EMC, has announced that Kwon would join the company in early September. As US-CERT director over the past year, Kwon has led the DHS operational effort to coordinate cyber-incident detection, as well as warning and response activities for civilian agencies’ networks. The fourth director of US-CERT in the last five years, Kwon had been frustrated by a lack of authority to fulfill her mission to protect the network security of civilian government agencies. Her resignation comes soon after top cybersecurity aide Melissa Hathaway announced she was stepping down.

The Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have signed agreements designed to improve communication between the two federal law enforcement agencies. Both agencies are particpants in the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and the International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center. Officials say that the agreement will give ICE access to more than 25 million records that had only been available through the Justice Department. The agreement is also designed to make the Justice Department more efficient in processing task force information.

Other Stories We’re Following

Air Force creates new command for nuclear mission (GovExec)

Senate panel to review federal contracting databases (GovExec)

Agencies likely to miss deadline to transition to Networx telecom pact (NextGov)

SSA to award contracts for NHIN links (FCW)

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