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Lisa Fowlkes and Ken Moran, both in the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, ...

Lisa Fowlkes and Ken Moran, both in the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, and Dana Shaffer, on loan to Comr. McDowell from the Wireline Bureau, are expected to be named deputy chiefs of the new Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau…

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when it opens in coming weeks, according to industry and FCC sources. To date, there’s still no word on who'll head the bureau, mandated in March. “It remains really quiet on that front,” a regulatory attorney said. “The Bureau chief position is the missing part of the puzzle,” said an industry source: “There is plenty of speculation… those who know aren’t talking, and those who are talking don’t know.” Catherine Bohigian, chief of the Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis, is reportedly no longer a candidate. Fowlkes, an assistant bureau chief, has been with the Enforcement Bureau since 2000 and briefly was a deputy chief of the Wireless Bureau. Moran is acting dir. of the FCC’s Office of Homeland Security, now part of the Enforcement Bureau, and has represented the FCC on homeland security issues at conferences. He has been at the FCC since 1978. Shaffer, who also has worked on loan for Comr. Tate, is a deputy chief in the Wireline Bureau. The likeliest scenario has her serving both as a deputy chief and division chief.