Comings and Goings

A new, regular feature of GovExec.com, Comings and Goings will announce 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

Steven S. Honigman has been named a special advisor to President Clinton to serve as the administration's point man on the procurement of encryption technology and services. Honigman will oversee encryption policy as well, an issue that has put the president at odds with the computer industry in recent years. Honigman has been general counsel of the Navy since June 1993.

Country Music Foundation Director Bill Ivey has been nominated to take the helm of the embattled National Endowment of the Arts. The agency escaped the chopping block this year after the House voted to zero out its funds. Ivey has served as director of the Country Music Foundation since 1971.

The board of directors for Federal Prison Industries, Inc., also known as UNICOR, will be getting a new member: Arthur H. White, vice chairman of Yankelovich Partners Inc. President Clinton announced the appointment last week.

The president has nominated Chicago's Cherryl Thomas to be chair of the Railroad Retirement Board. Thomas is the commissioner of the Department of Buildings for the city of Chicago, the second largest building department in the country.

Victims rights advocate Reginald L. Robinson has assumed the post of acting director of the Justice Department's Office for Victims of Crime. Robinson succeeds director Aileen Adams, who resigned after three years to return to California. Robinson has served in a variety of Justice Department posts since he was a White House Fellow in 1993, serving as special assistant to Attorney General Janet Reno.

G O I N G S

Financial Management Service Commissioner Russell D. Morris has been temporarily transferred to the IRS and will later receive a permanent reassignment. Bureau of Public Debt commissioner Richard L. Gregg has taken over as FMS commissioner. The shake-up followed a scathing report from Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney on the Treasury Department's efforts to improve debt collection. Long-time Treasury Department official Van Zeck will fill in at the Bureau of Public Debt.

K U D O S

Stan Fisher, an electronics integrated systems mechanic at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania received an outstanding employee award for reducing waste. Fisher came up with a way to repair circuit cards for a radar detecting system. Before, the cards had to be thrown away. Estimated cost savings over the life of the system are more than $500,000.