After his comments on veterans’ hiring preference, the General Services Administration put him on leave around the beginning of August.

On his personal LinkedIn, Pete Waterman apologized to civilian FedRAMP Cybersecurity Service applicants and called the practice “brutally unfair when taken to the extreme.”

Tech leaders from across agencies and industry said the government must work together to use AI to fix broken systems, not just use it as a band-aid.

In government hiring, veterans’ preference is badly structured compensation that also fails on policy grounds.

The White House’s Greg Barbaccia and GSA’s Pete Waterman spoke Wednesday about next steps to improve government cloud purchasing.

Pete Waterman, the program’s director, said GSA intends to “collaborate with industry to drive the solution” as it makes changes to the program.