With Schmidt in place, who's his deputy?

Now that Howard Schmidt has officially been appointed the cyber coordinator, the next guessing game is how he fills out his staff. Melissa Hathaway, the former senior director for cyberspace for the National Security Council under President Obama, says the cyber coordinator's office is set up to have a coordinator, a deputy and several senior directors who would come from agencies on detail. Multiple sources say the next piece to the puzzle could be a staff member from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sources say Sameer Bhalotra is a leading candidate to be deputy cyber coordinator. "Sameer interviewed with the White House earlier this year, but I don't think a decision has been made," says one source. Bhalotra has been with the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2007 where he has focused on cybersecurity and leads the committee's cyber study team.