Comings and Goings

Every Monday 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.

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The Government Printing Office has appointed Ernest G. "Gil" Baldwin III as director of the library programs service, the office that runs the Federal Depository Library program. Baldwin has been with GPO since 1973.

Alvin C. Collins is making the jump from state to federal government. The secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources since 1995, Collins will now be director of the Office of Family Assistance in the Health and Human Services Department's Administration for Children and Families. Collins will oversee the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, a $16.8 billion federal block grant to states for moving families from welfare to work.

Neil J. Gallagher has been appointed as chief of the FBI's national security division, the third-highest position at the bureau. Gallagher, a 25-year veteran of the agency, will oversee the FBI's counterterrorism, foreign counterintelligence and infrastructure protection efforts. Gallagher joined the FBI in 1973 as a special agent.

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Bill Sullivan, former commissioner of public buildings at the General Services Administration, is leaving to head up the new government marketing and procurement division at Alcalde & Fay, an Arlingon, Va.-based public affairs firm. Joe Austin, a former House legislative liaison for the Army, will share the division's top job with Sullivan.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's public affairs director, Lori Arguelles, is leaving the department to head up the public affairs operation at the Girl Scouts of America.