The chief financial officer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is moving into the corresponding position at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cherish Johnson will start as the regulator’s CFO on Feb. 18, according to a Monday press release. She succeeds Maureen Wylie, who retired after working for 35 years in the federal government. Deputy CFO Ben Ficks is currently also serving as acting chief financial officer.
The position’s broad financial management activities include oversight of agency spending in comparison to budgeting; setting the agency’s financial management policy; and providing yearly NRC audited financial statements to the NRC chairman and head of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Johnson was NOAA’s chief financial officer/chief administrative office from 2014, following an extended stint at NASA. At the space agency, Johnson served in the Space Operations Mission Directorate and as Mission Support Division director, the release says.