Comings and Goings

Every Wednesday on GovExec.com, Comings and Goings announces the arrivals and departures of top federal managers and executives. To submit an announcement, e-mail it to webmaster@govexec.com or fax it to 202-739-8511.

C O M I N G S

Irwin "Ted" David is the National Weather Service's first chief financial officer/chief administrative officer. The position was created following a modernization review of the service headed by recently appointed NWS chief Jack Kelly. David was previously deputy chief financial officer at the Agriculture Department.

President Clinton has nominated Norine E. Noonan as assistant administrator for research and development at the Environmental Protection Agency. Noonan, currently dean of the graduate school at the Florida Institute of Technology, is a former Office of Management and Budget analyst and congressional staffer.

Vincent E. Bond is the new public affairs officer at the Southern California Customs Management Center in San Diego. He replaces Bobbie Cassidy, who is retiring Aug. 2. Bond has served as a public information officer and information specialist for the Customs Interdiction Program in Riverside, Calif. He has also worked the Navy, the Air Force, the Arizona Department of Transportation and the Internal Revenue Service.

G O I N G S

Deputy Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Fred Hansen is going local. He's accepted a job as head of Tri-Met, the Portland, Ore., regional public transportation authority. Hansen came to EPA in 1994, before which he directed the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.

John Keys, Bureau of Reclamation regional director for the Pacific Northwest, recently retired. Keys spent 34 years with the bureau, including 12 years as director of its Boise, Idaho regional office. He is a two-time Presidential Rank Award winner. Steven Clark, the power office manager at Grand Coulee Project in Washington, will serve as acting regional director until a permanent replacement is named.

K U D O S

Donald M. Blinken, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, has been awarded the Department of Defense Public Service Award for distinguished public service from December 1994 to August 1997. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre presented Blinken with the award for securing Hungarian support for U.S. troops conducting Bosnian operations. "His tenure in Budapest immeasurably strengthened security in Europe at a crucial time and brought Hungary and America closer together," Hamre said at an awards ceremony last week.