The FCC got a new chief technologist as the old one goes...
The FCC got a new chief technologist as the old one goes to work for the White House. Jon Peha, named chief technologist in 2008 under then-Chairman Kevin Martin, has been detailed to the administration’s Office of Science and Technology…
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Policy, an FCC official said. Peha will work on issues of interest to that office and the commission, such as spectrum, the official said. Peha, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, declined to comment on his job plans. Replacing him and returning to the FCC is Douglas Sicker, who teaches computer science at the University of Colorado, the agency said Wednesday. Sicker helped work on the National Broadband Plan, was director of global architecture at Level 3 and before that was chief of the commission’s network technology division.