Comings and Goings

A regular feature of 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

Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers has been nominated to head the U.S. Space Command. Myers is currently commander of Pacific Air Forces at Hawaii's Hickham Air Force Base. Lt. Gen. Patrick Gamble has been tapped for a promotion to full general to replace Myers in the Pacific. Both posts require Senate confirmation.

The National Treasury Employees Union has promoted Barbara Atkin to deputy general counsel for the union. The position was most recently held by Elaine Kaplan, who left to become head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Atkin has been associate general counsel for appellate litigation for NTEU since 1990, before which she spent 15 years at the National Labor Relations Board.

Rear Adm. James F. Amerault, has been nominated as a vice admiral and as deputy chief of naval operations for logistics. Amerault is now the director of the budget office in the Fiscal Management Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

Gary Scott has been named deputy manager of the Energy Department's Carlsbad Area Office in New Mexico. Scott, a manager in DOE's Idaho Operations Office in Idaho Falls, Idaho, will help manage the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's first nuclear waste repository.

G O I N G S

Navy Secretary John Dalton announced this week he is retiring at the end of the year to return to the private sector. Rep. Paul McHale, D-Pa., a Marine Corps reserve officer who is retiring, is a candidate to replace Dalton.

Former National Science Foundation Inspector General Linda G. Sundro is helping launch the Washington office of GuideStar, a Williamsburg, Va.-based nonprofit that links charities to potential donors.

K U D O S

Three Navy personnel have been awarded the Office of Naval Research's Bowen Award for inventing a device that improves torpedo launches from submarines. The device makes launches more quiet, and because of additional modifications, will save the Navy up to $70 million overall--not to mention potentially save submarines during battle. The employees, Frank M. Hrycin, David A. Abdow and John Babb, of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Newport, R.I., will each receive a plaque and split $5,000.