
President Biden on Wednesday announced his intention to nominate Dimitri Kusnezov, a scientist and Energy Department official helping with international partnerships on artificial intelligence at the department, to head the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. Kathryn Coulter Mitchell is the current acting under secretary for S&T at DHS, a role she assumed in May after then Acting Under Secretary William Bryan departed after four years. Coulter Mitchell was previously chief of staff for S&T.…