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Top technology posts at the Pentagon are filling up. Along with a reorganization of the command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) office, DoD last week announced that the following executives will be assisting C3I director and Defense Chief Information Officer Arthur L. Money in managing DoD's information infrastructure: Linton Wells II, presently deputy under secretary of Defense for policy support, as acting principal deputy assistant secretary for C3I; Cheryl Roby as acting deputy assistant secretary for intelligence; Christopher Mellon as acting deputy assistant secretary for security and information operations; Air Force Maj. Gen. Kenneth Israel as acting deputy assistant secretary for C3ISR and space systems; and Marvin Langston as acting deputy chief information officer.
Additional technology-related nominations include Air Force Maj. Gen. John L. Woodward Jr. as director of command, control, communications and computer systems, J-6, the Joint Staff; Air Force Maj. Gen. Gregory S. Martin as principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, along with a promotion to lieutenant general; and Navy Vice Adm. Robert J. Natter as director of space, information warfare, command and control, N6, in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The director Natter would replace, Navy Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, has been nominated to be president of the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities in the Department of Health and Human Services is getting a new commissioner. Sue Swenson, an education specialist who has worked at the University of Minnesota and the Senate Labor Subcommittee on Disability Policy, will head the bureau.
OMB deputy director Jack Lew has been officially nominated to replace outgoing director Franklin Raines, who announced his departure last month.
Harvey J. Goldschmid, a Columbia University law professor, is the Securities and Exchange Commission's new top lawyer. Goldschmid replaces Richard Walker, who is now the SEC's enforcement director, as general counsel for the agency.
Dr. Neal Nathanson will be taking the reins at the National Institutes of Health's AIDS research office. Nathanson has worked at the Centers for Disease Control, where he headed the Polio Surveillance Unit; the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he became head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Epidemiology; and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, where he chaired the Department of Microbiology.
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The Federal Communications Commission's common carrier bureau chief is leaving the agency. Richard Metzger, who helped implement the 1996 Telecommunications Act, is departing next month. He has been with the FCC since December 1993.
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