登录号:370474文件id: esx402日期:12/08/94标题:国防部长威廉·佩里(12/08/94)文本:*94120802。ESX 1ESX402 12/08/94国防部长威廉·佩里(佩里官方传记)(550)(国防部长威廉·佩里的官方传记由他的办公室提供。)1994年2月3日，经参议院一致表决，威廉·佩里博士宣誓就任国防部长。他之前从1993年3月5日担任国防部副部长，直到他被确认为国防部长。在他被提名为这些职位之前，他是技术战略联盟的主席，斯坦福大学工程学院的教授，斯坦福大学国际安全和军备控制中心的联合主任。佩里博士1927年10月11日出生于宾夕法尼亚州的范德格里夫特。他就读于宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒的巴特勒高中。他于1945年毕业。他在斯坦福大学(Stanford University)获得理学学士和理学硕士学位，在宾州州立大学(Penn State)获得数学博士学位。他是美国国家工程学院(National Academy of Engineering)的成员和美国艺术与科学院(American Academy of Arts and Sciences)的成员。从1946年到1947年，佩里博士是陆军工程兵团(Army Corps of Engineers)的士官，在日本和冲绳服役。 He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1948 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves in 1950. He remained in the reserves until 1955. Dr. Perry's extensive experience as an entrepreneur includes being one of the founders of ESL Inc., in 1964, and serving as its president until 1977. Prior to that, he was with Sylvania/General Telephone and was the Director of their Electronic Defense Laboratories. He has also served as Executive Vice President of Hambrecht and Quist Incorporated, an investment banking firm in San Francisco specializing in high technology companies. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Perry was Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. As Under Secretary, he was responsible for all weapon systems procurement and all research and development. He was the Secretary of Defense's principal advisor on technology, communications, intelligence, and atomic energy. He received the Army's Outstanding Service Medal in 1977, the Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1980 and again in 1981, and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal in 1981. He was awarded the 1980 Medal of Achievement by the American Electronics Association. The Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Knight Commander's Cross in 1981, and the French government conferred the Grand Officer de l'Ordre National du Merite in 1982. He received the James Forrestal Memorial Award for 1993 in March 1994. Dr. Perry has served as a director of FMC Corporation, United Technologies Corporation, and a number of private companies. He has also been a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served on a number of U.S. Government Advisory boards, including the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Technical Review Panel of the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence. He was a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, and the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Science. His wife, Lee, is a CPA, formerly associated with the firm of Hemming and Morse in San Mateo. Secretary Perry and Mrs. Perry have two sons living in the San Francisco area, a son and a daughter in the Washington, D.C. area, and a daughter in New York. NNNN .