Comings and Goings

Every Wednesday 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.

C O M I N G S

President Clinton has nominated Equal Employment Opportunity Commission member Paul Steven Miller for a second term at the EEOC. Miller has served on the commission since 1994, before which he served as deputy director of the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs and in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel as a liaison to the disabled community. He has written several articles on civil rights, including Coming Up Short: Employment Discrimination Against Little People (1987).

NASA has filled two key executive positions: Vicki A. Novak has been named associate administrator for human resources and education and Jeffrey E. Sutton has been appointed associate administrator for management systems and facilities. Novak has been with NASA since 1989, most recently as director of personnel. Sutton is a logistics management specialist with 27 years of experience in the Air Force and NASA.

Roger W. Kallock is the Pentagon's new deputy undersecretary of Defense for logistics. In that position, he will serve as the principal adviser on military logistics to Jacques Gansler, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and technology. Kallock brings 30 years of private sector experience to the Pentagon. He was most recently a managing partner at Computer Sciences Corp.

G O I N G S

Longtime IRS deputy commissioner Michael Dolan resigned last Thursday, the same day the House approved a sweeping IRS reform bill. Dolan said he wanted to give Commissioner Charles Rossotti "the maximum opportunity to form a senior team that will provide continuity through the very important work of the next several years." Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said he hopes Dolan will take a job in the Treasury Department.

K U D O S

Marthe Kent, director of the office of regulatory analysis at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, won Vice President Gore's first No Gobbledygook Award for rewriting a hard-to-understand regulation.

The National Guard Bureau's Distributive Training Technology Project, led by Lt. Col. Phil Vermeer, recently took home an award for its innovative use of of enterprise switching and routing technology. Through the project, National Guard members receive education and training via videoconferencing, teleconferencing, computer-based training, and the Internet. The SUPERQuest Award was presented to the bureau at the SUPERCOMM conference in Atlanta by CMP Media's tele.com and Internet Week publications.