TRIMBLE NAMED TO REPLACE ALOISE AT GAO

David Trimble has been named as a director in the Government Accountability Office’s Natural Resources and Environment division, heading up the department’s nuclear security, safety and nonproliferation group. Trimble is replacing Gene Aloise, who announced in August that he was retiring from GAO to become the deputy chief of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Trimble has spent two stints at GAO, most recently returning to the government watchdog agency in April 2009 to head up work on clean water and clean air topics and controlling toxic substances as well as Superfund and Environmental Protection Agency management issues. Prior to working at GAO, Trimble served as the Director of the Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance in the State Department’s Political Military Affairs Bureau. He also worked at GAO from 1986 to 2000.