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The IRS has announced two more new executive selections. Joseph Kehoe will be commissioner of the Small Business and Self-Employed Division and John Dalrymple will be commissioner of the Wage and Investment Division. Kehoe spent 26 years as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dalrymple, a 14-year veteran of the agency, was named IRS chief operating officer in August 1998 after serving two years as deputy chief operations officer. The selections round out IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti's management team.
John Hamre, the deputy secretary of Defense, is stepping down to become head of a Washington-based think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Rudy de Leon, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, will be nominated to replace Hamre in the No. 2 Pentagon post. De Leon was undersecretary of the Air Force from 1994-97.
Leon Wilson Jr. is taking over as executive director of The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. Wilson replaces Beverly L. Milkman, who was director for more than 11 years. Milkman is retiring to California. The Committee runs the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) program, which harnesses government's purchasing power to buy goods from blind and severely disabled workers. Wilson is the former director of supply for the Air Force. In that capacity he encouraged Air Force bases to allow nonprofit organizations employing the blind and disabled to run base service stores.
Leonard F. Chapman Jr., retired general and former commandant of the Marine Corps, died of cancer Jan. 6 in Fairfax, Va. Chapman served as commandant from 1968 to 1971, and is remembered for his supervision of Marine troop withdrawals from the Vietnam War. After retiring from service, he was appointed commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service by President Richard Nixon. Chapman held the position from 1973 to 1976.
Peter Goelz, managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, is leaving the federal government to join APCO Associates, a public relations firm specializing in corporate and government communications. There he will work on crisis communications. Goelz joined NTSB in 1995 as director of public and government affairs. He was instrumental in gaining passage of the Disaster Family Assistance Act and the Foreign Disaster Family Assistance Act in the wake of the TWA 800 accident.
Brig. Gen. Paul D. Nielsen, who has served as vice commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Aeronautical Systems Center since June 1999 has been named commander of the laboratory, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Nielson replaces Maj. Gen. Richard Paul, who is retiring in June. Paul became the lab's first commander when the organization was established in October 1997.
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