Sicker Returns to FCC as New Chief Technologist

摘要

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